Son of late New England mobster pleads guilty to killing former girlfriend
Michael Marrapese, 46, pleaded guilty to first-degree domestic murder in the killing of 29-year-old Lauren Ise just as his trial was slated to begin before Superior Court Judge Maureen B. Keough, court records show.
Cranston police went to 245 Bay View Ave. on March 13, 2019, to check on Ise after Providence detectives relayed a tip that she had been murdered by her estranged boyfriend, Marrapese. They found her body and signs of foul play.
Marrapese had lived with Ise in the duplex until shortly before her death. Her mother, Cheryl Palazzo, said during an anti-domestic violence walk in her daughter's honor that Ise had broken up with Marrapese and was living alone at the apartment. Marrapese, Palazzo claimed, had threatened her the night before the slaying.
Ise did not have a protective order against Marrapese, according to the Cranston police. Police had responded to the apartment for domestic disturbances, and Ise had reported feeling threatened after Marrapese moved out.
Marrapese was arrested weeks before the killing for disorderly conduct after Cranston police charged his brother, Steven Andrew Marrapese of Providence, with fighting and assault and battery on Ise while using a folding knife, according to a court complaint.
Steven Marrapese is currently serving time in maximum security at the Adult Correctional Institutions, while his brother is in the high-security unit.
Mafia capo Frank L. “Bobo” Marrapese Jr., known as one of the most vicious enforcers for New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca, died in December 2017 at Rhode Island Hospital.
Marrapese, 74, had been serving time at the ACI for murder, racketeering and extortion at the time of his death.
The elder Marrapese operated the Acorn Social Club on Federal Hill, a key meeting spot for mobsters from across New England. Marrapese shot mob associate Richard “Dickie” Callei to death at the club on March 15, 1975. He then had the corpse buried near a golf course in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
After Callei’s murder, it took nearly a decade to catch Marrapese, although he continued to commit other crimes, such as a hijacking case involving stolen La-Z-Boy recliners in the early 1980s.
Marrapese was convicted of Callei’s murder in 1987 and sentenced to life in prison. He was released on parole in 2008.
Within two years, state police alleged, he and other mob figures were running a large-scale sports gambling ring that was raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Marrapese was among two dozen associates arrested in May 2011. He was sentenced in 2013 to nine years for racketeering and extortion.
Though Marrapese spent most of his adult life in prison for various crimes, not all the charges stuck. He was acquitted in the murder of Anthony “The Moron” Mirabella at Fidas Restaurant in May 1982, as well as the August 1982 murder of 20-year-old Ronald McElroy, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat after accidentally cutting off Marrapese and other mobsters who were street racing in Providence. Marrapese maintained his innocence in McElroy’s murder.
Marrapese’s time as a Patriarca enforcer spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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