Mobster’s Mistress - the fifth estate
April 8, 2015
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as posted by the channelIn 1980, Shirley Ryce was picked up on a police bug with her boyfriend’s brother as he was arranging for her to sleep with his lawyer in exchange for money. Ryce’s lover of 17 years happened to be notorious Hamilton mobster Rocco Papalia and his brother was Frank Papalia. That sting gave police enough information to charge Frank Papalia with procurement and Ryce was forced to testify against him. She was relocated under police protection and given a new identity. Six years after that, the fifth estate spoke to Ryce about how she went from a young wife and mother of three to a mistress to not one but two mobsters, who would eventually instruct other mob girlfriends on how to behave with their powerful and dangerous boyfriends.
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