Kevin Hanrahan

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Kevin T. Hanrahan (June 25, 1953-September 18, 1992) was a Providence mobster and freelance enforcer for the Patriarca crime family. A longtime criminal in southern New England's underworld, Hanrahan was often used by the Patriarca's for collections and assault in Federal Hill and suspected by authorities to have been involved in numerous gangland slayings throughout the 1970s and 80s (specifically the murder of Raymond "Slick" Vecchio). He would be in and out of prison during the 1980s on charges including jury tampering, intimidating witnesses, drug trafficking and counterfeiting.

Hanrahan gained notoriety in 1975 when, after being shot in the chest by an unidentified gunman while at the Club Aries, he refused to identify the gunman when questioned by police who responded at the scene.

In 1990, Hanrahan was involved with "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, Timothy J. Mello, Gordon O'Brien and William Anthony in a plot to kidnap Patriarca bookmaker Blaise Marfeo outside his restaurant in East Providence, Rhode Island. Hanrahan was able to flee the scene before being discovered by police after his accomplices were arrested, however he was implicated by Anthony and was forced to turn himself in the following day.

Hanrahan would spend the next two years with Mello, a fellow inmate at Walpole State Prison, and would lure local drug dealers to an abandoned warehouse where they would be beaten and robbed. Hanrahan continued his activities with Mello for two years until his death when, after dining with businessman Paulie Calenda, police informant Bobby Buehne and others, he was shot and killed by two gunman on the corner of Atwells Avenue while walking to Federal Hill's The Arch in North Providence on the night of September 18, 1992 [1]. Although he had told friends he was expecting a "big score", it is suspected Hanrahan may have been a victim of the war between the Providence and Boston factions of the Patriarca crime family [2].