Posted on 09/16/2022 10:05:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
In early 1972, Nancy Anderson was a 19-year-old who had been living in Hawaii for less than a year after graduating high school.
On January 7, 1972, Anderson was found dead in her Waikiki apartment. She had been stabbed more than 60 times.
Police spent 50 years trying to solve her murder, reopening the case numerous times and coming up with new suspects, the New York Post reported. Authorities spoke to a pair of door-to-door knife salesmen who had visited Anderson’s home just hours before her murder, along with former boyfriends and the apartment building’s property manager – but all leads came up empty.
The case went cold until earlier this year, when a tipster suggested 77-year-old Tudor Chirila, the former deputy attorney general of Nevada with a history of sordid affairs, may have been the one to kill Anderson back in 1972. Police obtained a DNA sample from Chirila’s son, John, and determined that the DNA they collected showed John was the biological child of whoever’s DNA was found at the crime scene 50 years earlier.
Earlier this month, police executed a search warrant and obtained DNA from Tudor Chirila directly. Two days after police obtained the sample, on September 8, Chirila tried to commit suicide, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. A week later, he was arrested and sent to the county jail in Reno, Nevada, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. He was held without bail and charged with being a fugitive from another state and the murder of Nancy Anderson.
Chirila has been an attorney in Reno, Carson City, and the Lake Tahoe area. In the late 1970s, just years after Anderson’s murder, Chirila became Nevada’s deputy attorney general. Decades later, in 1994, he unsuccessfully ran for the Nevada Supreme Court.
Four years after his failed Supreme Court bid, Chirila was named in a federal indictment as the former president of a company that worked as a front for Joe Conforte, a Nevada brothel boss who owned the infamous Mustang Ranch. The indictment alleged that Conforte and others had conspired to defraud the government after the Mustang Ranch was seized by the IRS. Conforte was accused of hiding his assets during bankruptcy proceedings in order to buy back the brothel after it was seized, sold for back taxes, and then repurchased by Conforte. Conforte allegedly used A.G.E. Corp., where Chirila was president, to buy back the legal brothel.
Chirila testified as a government witness, saying he was aware of Conforte’s ownership of A.G.E. Corp. Conforte fled when the case went to trial in 1999, the Post reported.
In 1998, Chirila sued Conforte for $14 million, claiming he was wrongly fired because he cooperated with federal prosecutors. The lawsuit was dismissed.
That was the one scene that disturbed me in that movie. It reinforced the fact that they were evil pieces of $hit after all.
No doubt there are plenty of other such cases out there...
when a tipster suggested 77-year-old Tudor Chirila,
I’m surprised you’re not in the Witness Protection Program...................😉
YIKES!! FUGLY! Nevada MAFIA? Connected to HARRY REID CRIME FAMILY?
And WE are the dangerous ones..........................
Someone he double crossed
More detailed info around the case:
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/tudor-chirila-charged-nancy-anderson-1972-murder
Door to door knife salesmen? Boy did I pick the wrong career!
Ping
Yes, I talked to the FBI, they knew about all of this. Wh do you think covered up the bribe charges? FBI Utah director Huber.
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easy, ever cross trails with any of these characters?
Who is “Don” in this anecdote?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4093881/posts?page=19#19
“Harry Reid’s first campaign manager from 65 to 75. Don had on a number of occasions picked up “bags of cash” from Conforte for Reid”
The FBI would have “protected” him long enough for Reid’s Mafia friends to suicide him. As it is Reid died last year so he’s probably safe now.
“I’m surprised you’re not in the Witness Protection Program...................😉”
It was scary. A friend of mine unwittingly got me an interview with Fred Doumani, who spent his time telling me that his friend Rick Rizzolo wasn’t a bad guy. Doumani had been at the Tropicana during the Joe Agosto/Kansas City mob skim. That’s when the took the heiress Mitzy Stauffer Briggs for her money.
Rizzolo ran the Crazy Horse Saloon topless joint, then the Crazy Horse Too when they moved. Rizzolo took over from Tony the Ant Spilotro after Tomy and brother Michael got buried alive in the Indiana cornfield. Rizzolo ran a pizza shop in the same mini mall as the Crazy Horse Saloon and when Tony Albanese lost his head to the desert coyotes, Rizzolo took over.
Rizzolo used to go to Chicago to the Crazy Horse Too that opened there and play Gin Rummy with Joey the Clown Lombardo. Brother Rocco Lombardo worked at Crazy Horse Too Vegas. The original owner of that joint, Levine, ended up pimping for Bill Clinton at Hillary’s 2000 Hollywood gala.
Yeah, I got hung to dry by the good citizens and FBI.
Chirila was a successful attorney in Reno, Carson City, and the Lake Tahoe area. He became Nevada’s deputy attorney in the late 1970s.
Source: See Chirila’s background
The following were the Attorney General of Nevada on the late 70s:
26 Robert List --- 1971–1979 Republican
27 Richard Bryan 1979–1983 Democratic
As you can see, I had no real luck in determining his political party. But his chances of being Republican seem to be greater than being a Democrat, unless both positions are determined by separate elections, and not as a ticket. 😋
I will leave at just Don for the moment. But he knew all the thugs. He worked for/with Lefty Rosenthal, but Don wasn’t mob.
I bumped into a few Mafia guys here in Vegas, you couldn’t turn around when the town was small without meeting them.
🤢........................
Conforte reportedly died in Brazil in 2019 from pneumonia associated with alzheimer's...
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