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Long Elusive, Mob Legend Ended Up a Recluse

Charlie and Carol Gasko seemed to be just cheap designer bags, elderly couple enjoying retirement in a modest apartment building a few blocks from the Pacific in Santa Monica. He told a neighbor he had emphysema and spent his days lying on the couch watching television. Carol would venture out for designer handbags wholesale on the nearby Third Street Promenade, stopping by the Saturday Farmers’ Market or feeding a neighborhood stray cat. Often, he tagged along.

But they were reclusive and a little odd, neighbors said. Charlie would often wear a baseball cap or cheap designer handbags that shadowed his face. He would bark at neighbors when Carol lingered too long to speak to them, said one neighbor, who described him as “a rageaholic”; Carol explained that he was suffering from dementia. In recent months, another neighbor said, a note was taped to their door reading, “Please do not Knock at designer handbags on sale.”