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Fran Ash Wednesday Dovishaw had many nicknames and aliases. He was a bookmaker-not just a garden varity illegal numbers and sports-betting bookie. In partnership with an admitted mob hit man, he ran northwestern Pennsylvania's most lucrative bookmaking operation, one that easily handled hundreds of thousands of dollars over a busy college and professional football weekend. Unfortunately, he would never see football on the night of January 3, 1983, nor would he take another bet. Just hours before kick0ff, begging for mercy on his knees, Frank Dovishaw lost not a wager, but his life. The execution-style gangland murder set off a series of events for Erie's top homicide investigator that would span nearly seven years, touching upon virtually every aspect of the lakeside city's dark underbelly, and reaching from Pennsylvania to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and Florida. Here is the extraordinary true story of Dominick DiPaolo, a persistent, unyielding vetern cop who refused to quit through death threats, bribery attempts, false leads, and sidetracks, while tenaciously following clues and suspects, form made men and wannabes, burglars and armed robbers, arsonists and hired killers, cope and union leader killings, to the culmination of The Unholy Murder of Ash Wednesday.

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Co-authored by Dominick D. DiPaolo and Jeff Pinski. DiPaolo served with distinction as an Erie, Pennsylvania, police officer for a quarter century, much of that time as Erie s leading homicide investigator. Retiring at the rank of detective sergeant, he became the most decorated law enforcement officer in the City of Erie s history.For the past 20 years, DiPaolo has been an elected Magisterial District Judge, representing Erie s vast Sixth Ward. Active in civic, religious, youth and athletic organizations, he is the father of two and grandfather of four. He and his wife, Janet, live in the City of Erie. Pinski was an award-winning journalist for four decades at Erie, Pennsylvania s Times Publishing Company. First a Morning News reporter and later managing editor, then Erie Times-News public editor, he is the former president of the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, and the former longtime chairman of both Leadership Erie and the MS Society s Northwestern Pennsylvania Advisory Council.After retiring from the newspaper, he became Edinboro University s Associate Director for Communications and Marketing for seven years. A veteran of the U.S. Navy and father of one, he and his wife, Doris, live in Fairview Township.

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