Kiddy Gang
In 1977 Bruce Johnston Jr. started the Kiddy gang under supervision of his dad Bruce Sr. With the Kiddy gang, they stole small garden tractors, dealt in cigarettes and a lot more. They also stole car parts for Bruce Sr. to resell.
In the summer of 1977, while Bruce Jr. was in prison for petty crimes, his girlfriend Robin Miller claimed she had been raped by Bruce Sr. Bruce Jr., then 20, agreed to testify against the family, according to newspaper accounts of the gang. He had been planning to marry his girlfriend and got angry, so, on Aug. 9, told a federal grand jury in Philadelphia what he knew.
As investigators began questioning other members of the gang, including Bruce Sr.'s stepson James "Jimmy" Johnston, the three senior Johnstons plotted to kill the informants.
In August 1977, Jimmy Johnston and three other members of the Kiddy gang were shot in the head in a field and buried in a common grave. Kiddy gang member James Sampson—whose younger brother was killed earlier—demanded to know where his brother was and was killed in the same way and dumped in a landfill.
Norman and David tried to carry out a $15,000 contract placed by Bruce Sr. on his son. On August 30, 1977, Bruce Jr. was hit by eight bullets during an attack outside his then-fiancée Robin Miller's area home as they were in a Volkswagen Rabbit . He survived and later testified against his father and uncles. Miller died in the attack by two shots in the face.
Bruce Jr was placed in the federal witness protection program and, two weeks after the attack he suffered, he testified at a preliminary hearing. He has since left the program and goes by his real name.
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