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other perpetrators no matter how far they had fled.
    Then he personally led a group of Florida Hotel and Restaurant Commission inspectors to the Outlaws’ West Palm Beach hangout — Kitty’s Saloon. They shut it down for being unclean, and Kirk’s men arrested the owner, 39-year-old Kitty Randall, for maintaining a brothel. She denied the charges, but admitted that the Outlaws frequented her bar and that some of them lived in the spartan cottages behind Kitty’s Place that she also owned. As far as prostitution was concerned, she allowed that it may have happened, but that she wasn’t involved. “I introduced some of the girls to some of the guys,” she said. “But what they did after that, I don’t know.”
    Under questioning, she told police everything she knew about the crucifixion. She wasn’t there, she said, but the Outlaws involved told her all about it at the bar afterward. They told her that Risinger and the others drove Deese to a wooded area near Juno Beach, about 10 miles away from Kitty’s Saloon. They then forced her to stand on tiptoes in front of a large melaleuca tree and spread her arms wide. When her hands were in place, the Outlaws drove four-inch nails into each of them, fastening her to the tree and forcing her to hang from them when she could not maintain the tiptoe pose. They sat around her in a semicircle, forbidding her to scream, for about 15 minutes before prying the nails loose and driving her back to Kitty’s Saloon.
    When asked if this kind of behavior was usual for the Outlaws, Randall said it was and that she was aware that they had beaten Deese on many occasions. But, she asserted, the blows were “never on the face, always on the body.”
    Soon after, Kirk’s posse, having searched Chicago and the surrounding area, found the remaining fugitive Outlaws holed up in the clubhouse of an allied Detroit gang called the Renegades. Sheriff William Heidtman, leader of the detachment, called it “the filthiest place you ever saw.”
    When Heidtman brought Donald “Mangy” Graves Jr., Joe “Super Squirrel” Sorsby Jr. and John “Crazy John” Wables back to Florida, Kirk met them at the airport. Just before they were led into waiting police cars, Sorsby and Wables began to kiss each other in a way contemporary media called “passionate.”
    And the Outlaws made enemies well beyond the governor of Florida and his police force.
    In the ’60s, there was no gang tougher than the Aliens. None.

    Based in Manhattan’s then notorious East Village, the Aliens were well known to be violent and to have close ties to the Mafia. In the summer of 1969, a former member of the Aliens is said to have raped the wife of another member. Although women are not generally held in any sort of high regard by many bikers, they are considered property and the insult was too much for the club to bear. Fearing for his life, the alleged rapist got out of New York and settled in the Midwest. Before long, he joined the Outlaws.
    That following December, after some tense negotiations on both sides, the Aliens became the Hells Angels New York City. It did nothing to quell their violent tendencies. It may actually have intensified them.
    In the spring of 1974, two members of Satan’s Soldiers (a Bronx-based club friendly with Hells Angels) spotted the alleged rapist in Outlaws colors riding his way into New York City. They told the Hells Angels, who sent mammoth sergeant-at-arms Vincent “Big Vinny” Girolamo out to get him. It didn’t take long. Girolamo — whose famous quote “When in doubt, knock ’em out” still hangs above the entrance to the East 3 rd Street clubhouse — apprehended the man at a friend’s house and forced him back to the clubhouse. When the insulted husband showed up, he took the Outlaw outside and beat him until he was sure he was dead.
    He wasn’t. He