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All American Mafioso" author Ed Becker recalls seeing Caifano in Las Vegas casinos in the mid-1950s, about the time the little killer was changing his name to "Johnny Marshall." A new surname couldn't disguise Caifano's volatile nature, or the real reason he'd come to Las Vegas. He wasn't here for the waters, but to shake down casino bosses on behalf of the boys back in Chicago. "We were all terrorized by the guy," says Becker, who in his early years in Las Vegas was a Riviera publicist. "If he walked into your hotel, whatever he wanted he got. You never approached him. He always looked at you like he was looking for a gun in your hand." Although charges were never filed, Caifano was a prime suspect in a June 17, 1960, fire that consumed the original El Rancho Vegas on the Strip. El Rancho owner Beldon Katleman had booted Caifano from the property just a few hours earlier, and the hoodlum had threatened the casino man; but county investigators later ruled the fire accidental....

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