Karen and Henry's daughter Gina later described her mother's account of the aftermath of the Ted incident in the memoir On the Run: A Mafia Childhood: "My mom called my dad and he picked her up and drove her home, but instead of going into the house with her, he went across the street. His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. Gina flew to Florida, and although Justin was already in a foster home, Gina was able to obtain custody. Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.Hill testified against his former Mafia associates, resulting in 50 convictions, including those of caporegime (captain) Paul Vario and fellow associate James Burke . Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. When they said their goodbyes, he kissed her hand and said, Ill love you forever.. Her Husband was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. In time, I would grow to hate those words. According to his son and his daughter, Henry Hill was truly a despicable man. In 1980, Hill became an FBI informant, and his testimony helped secure 50 Conviction (s), including those of mob capo (captain) Paul Vario and James . They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. One day, Sherrys nephew, a toddler, pulled her handgun out from her purse, nearly giving her sister a heart attack. by Gregg Hill (Author), Gina Hill (Author) 344 ratings Kindle $11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $28.79 64 Used from $2.36 12 New from $24.85 2 Collectible from $14.00 Paperback $18.93 6 Used from $8.11 6 New from $17.81 Mass Market Paperback $3.04 12 Used from $3.04 This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. But right to the end, he managed to stay one step ahead of the mafia assassins he long feared. That package was a woman named Sherry Anders. She was leading an ordinary life at that time and was working at a New York dental office. The guys at the cabstand, they didnt smack me. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. Before he could properly get kicked out of Sherrys house, he passed out. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. However, we are getting this story from two people closest to Henry Hill: his son and his daughter, so we know it must be the awful truth. Janet meant real trouble for her family. Karen Hill eventually confessed to her daughter Gina that it was the fascination and glamour of the criminal lifestyle that attracted her to Henry. Henry Hill then became an informant to the FBI, which caused Karen and the children to enter the Witness Protection Program, where they were given new identities and lived in numerous locations through the 1980s. She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. He was given a bulletproof vest to wear whenever he was with Hill, but he never wore it. But Hill was still letting himself into Sherrys house at odd hours, one time writing I love you, Sherry Amour, HH on the bathroom mirror in lipstick. There was a reported two-million-dollar contract on his head and word was getting out that Hill was living in the Midwest. In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. It got to the point where one day, Hills wife picked up the phone and received a blunt warning: Tell Marty hes dead.. Hes a married man! Gram would scream. Believing that he had slept with Sherry the night before, she went to find her next. Reprinted by permission of Warner Books. They had a son named Justin, but in 1997, Hill and Dawn, now living in California, became totally out of control with their drug use. He ran numbers and sold bootlegged cigarettes out of his car. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. It took quite a while for the DEA officials to confirm that their target Martin Lewis was actually Henry Hill, and when the news broke, choppers were hovering over the Hill house for weeks. Sherry was in the shower, and just like the scene from Psycho, the curtains were viciously pulled back. He wrote about the heist in a detailed form and from his point of view. Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. She was born in New York and raised in the Five Towns area of . Wed 13 Jun 2012 11.51 EDT 50 Henry Hill has died - of natural causes. And then my mom told me he was going away. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. With this, Karen went into panic mode. The federal penitentiary at Lewisburg was a big beige block with a tower in the center near the front where I could see a guard with a military rifle slung over his shoulder. 'My attempt at bigamy was a complete failure. As for Karen she divorced Hill in 1990 and it was finalized in 2002. His name was John Ciaccio, and he owed a gambling debt to a friend of my father, a guy who ran one of the unions at Kennedy Airport. It was titled, On The Run: A Mafia Childhood. But the family were still taken out of the witness protection program 'based upon continued arrests and breaches of security'. So he grew up to be a gangster. The real-life mafia turncoat who was immortalized by late actor Ray Liotta in his breakout role in Goodfellas was a bigamist who repeatedly cheated on his wife while in witness protection, before leaving her and their children to wed a Mormon hairdresser he had known for just seven weeks. Everyone in Redmond just figured it was a joke, of course. After he and Karen divorced, Karen went off the grid. Now, almost 25 years later, Gregg and Gina Hill are breaking their own silence in a new book called "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. The siblings were invited to discuss the book on Today. Heres an excerpt: GINA: One of my earliest memories of my dad was my mom telling me he was going away. Not long into their marriage, his behavior grew more erratic. Despite the obvious cons of being married to a con, she still loved him and had false hope that it would work out. The small and striking brunette, 31, was a beautician who grew up around horses and knew her way around the track. Henry took care of it. Or when my dad and his friend Tommy DeSimone would back a truck up to the garage and unload boxes of microwaves or knit shirts or toaster ovens. Im done with Sherry, she said in an interview. As they headed to Nevada for a quickie wedding, Sherry was on cloud nine. Those bastards. She made it sound like the government was picking on him over something petty. The two women decided to make their unique situation a little more amusing. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. Lets get married today, he told her. He ran up huge bogus tabs at his own restaurant, The Suite, on stolen credit cards. Gram probably knew it was stolen, but she never asked, so my dad never had to answer. It was only a matter of time. Dont you ever f***ing come back here! she screamed. Oct. 14, 2004, 4:51 AM PDT Few areas of. First things first: she had to get her husbands marriage to Sherry dissolved. The man who Anders knew as the charming and charismatic Martin was in fact a married mafia informant with a large target on his back, who had a wife and two children living just a few miles from where he and his second spouse met. 'He kind of slinked in and didn't make good eye contact when I was introduced,' she told Pearl and Nichols. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. Whereas Hill was doing all the wrong things, Karen went into survival mode. Ten years after their wedding Hill called Anders, who has now also changed her name from Sherry to Scarlett. In walked a likable 38-year-old guy who appeared at their table and introduced himself as Martin Lewis. Her instincts proved spot on when one day an unfamiliar woman walked in to the hair salon. She was in her mid-twenties and said her name was Janet. http://www.amazon.com/Mobsters-Gangs-Crooks-Creeps-ebook/dp/B006H99D1U/ref=zg_bs_11010_5, I never thought that I could enjoy a book about mob rat Henry Hill, but this one written by his son, Gregg, and his daughter, Gina, kept my interest and gave me a vivid account of two poor kids on the run.. Anders said her initial reaction was to say no - insisting that she had to work that day - however her beau of less than two months quickly convinced her otherwise, and they packed up her car and, along with her then-13-year-old son Kris, drove to Virginia City, Nevada, where they tied the knot. by Gina Hall (Author), Gregg Hill (Author) 299 ratings Kindle $11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $38.91 51 Used from $2.06 5 New from $29.98 2 Collectible from $14.00 Paperback $22.99 6 Used from $15.57 3 New from $17.23 Mass Market Paperback $16.78 9 Used from $12.80 That night, they packed their bags and hit the road in Sherrys car with her 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. Finding steady work at a local morning show in Seattle, she moved to the city. Lorraine Bracco performed so stunningly as Karen Hill in the movie that she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Henry worked his way up, became an earner, and proved himself worthy of playing a key role in the notorious heist of Lufthansa Airlines in 1978. Hill died at a hospital in Los Angeles in June 2012 having suffered a heart attack brought on by years of smoking, a habit he blamed on his nerves. Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. But people stared and then they glared. Kaylen replied: 'Yeah. The man was flirting with disaster. Over the next couple of years, they moved six times out to Kew Gardens, back in with my grandparents, out to Forest Hills, back to Valley Stream. Theyd come on fast, this stabbing, throbbing pain right behind my eyes that would spread through my whole head. How could she have been so blind? The driver looked a few years older than her, weathered but attractive. Book Review On the Run by Gregg and GinaHill. While Tony wasnt a member of any crime family, he refused to turn states evidence on any of his friends and associates, even when staring jail time square in the face. On the first night in their new home, the senior Hill, instead of playing it low-key, took his family to Godfathers Pizza and proceed to get drunk and unruly. She hugged me and then left me alone. Karen is believed to be alive and running her own business today. Wed leave at eleven oclock, sometimes even later, and drive west into Pennsylvania. Gina Hill. Some of the other thefts were easier: Theyd just walk into a garage and steal the truck, or theyd buy off the driver so hed leave his keys in the cab when he stopped for coffee. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. Through the 1970s, the Hill family was involved in organized crime, through which they became very wealthy and lived extravagantly. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. Hed say, Whaddya want, Princess? and Id say, Barbies swimming pool! or something like that, and the next day or the day after, hed bring it home. Sherry, unwittingly a target, was Janets path to Hill. They eloped not long after my dad beat up Ted, and moved in with my grandparents. They had a son named Justin, but in 1997, Hill and Dawn, now living in California, became totally out of control with their drug use. Hill immediately got drunk and started cursing out loud in front of the local yokels. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. Thats how he always explained it connections. Like the time the pavers showed up with a truckload of asphalt to blacktop my grandmas driveway. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. So it's cool.'. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. Sherry was dumbfounded. How a man could do so much harm to his own family is shocking; even sickening. He had a better ride through the Pennsylvania farmlands than I ever did. Usually, though, we were in our beat-up Oldsmobile Toronado, the car we got after my father accidentally dropped a lit cigarette in the front seat of our 1969 Chrysler Newport, causing it to go up in flames. Gina Hill. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. But when he arrived in Washington, Hill was able to wipe his slate clean - or at the very least overhaul the image he was presenting to the world. Sherry refused to sign them. Stealing was second nature to my father. Hill then told his wife the only reason he married the girl was because she had money. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. Janet and two other female detectives at the agency were dubbed Charlies Angels. Brown, the former owner of the Boston Celtics who bought KFC from Colonel Sanders and became the governor of Kentucky. She even ended her friendship with Samantha, whom Hill told her he slept with one night (he never did). My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. I was already used to my dad being away. They wanted dirt on the prosecution's star witness. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. He told people he worked for the government, an insurance investigator and an author. Initially after their marriage, Karen and Henry moved in with Karen's parents at their home in Lawrence, New York. 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