Pietro Giuseppe Licavoli was born in St. Louis to immigrants from the Sicilian town of Terrasini. He was the eldest of three siblings and when he was old enough for education and into his teens was a bright and promising student. His parents hoped that one day he would become a success as a legitimate citizen and branch off into possibly being a doctor or a lawyer. But alas for his mother and father, Pietro and neither his younger brothers Thomas "Yonnie" Licavoli or Dominic Licavoli showed the slightest interest in anything but the fast and dangerous life of crime and being downright thugs. All three brothers grew up in a neighborhood in which members of the Jewish faith made up a majority of the residents and provided the boys with a foretaste of diversity which would contribute to their