The scariest mafioso of all time. Who is it?

Who would make you piss your pants?

Joe Barboza probably, he look like animal... his nickname was The Animal

NYPD Detective Ralph Salerno said the two guys with the scariest look in their eyes were Carmine Galante and Aniello Dellacroce.

"You looked at Dellacroce's eyes and you could see how frightening they were. The frigid glare of a killer."

What about kuklinski?

i wouldnt consider him a mafioso

roy demeo

Joe Barboza isn't mafioso too but worked as a hitman for Cosa Nostra, if I had to pick made man, probably Carmine Galante and Toto Riina

Toto Riina
Giovanni Brusca

angelo bruno was one of the most violent ones

Filippo Marchese

Angelo Bruno was the gentle don. Do you mean Nicky Scarfo?

Anthony Casso was a real psycho and he had brains. That's a dangerous combo. Galante was feared but not feared enough to avoid getting clipped. Guys like Anastasia and Genovese were no picnic either. Toto Riina would slaughter babies... Most feared, I'd say The Chin for the simple fact that he tried to kill Costello and nobody dared touch him when he was the boss of the Genovese.

Whats your opinion on Tommy Pitera?

sarcastic

In terms of smarts and overall power maybe Carlo Gambino. I mean on the surface he didn't look threatening but he held real power. In terms of looking at the guy and shitting yourself, I'd say Casso, Gravano, or Gigante

Ray Patriarca, Roy Demeo, Ricca and Accardo, Vito Genovese. Mimi Scialo maybe.

Albert Anastasia. Al Capone. But they're all like that, it's what keeps the mob going.

Giovanni Brusca,Mad Sam,Cesare Bonventre,Carmine Galante....

By the time Anastasia was killed there was no one around who would have done anything for Frank especially by the time Chin was boss.

Barboza was a mafioso he was a loanshark as well as a hitman and probably more.

What's your opinion on the whole thread? You asked the question, but have yet to throw your own thoughts out.

" Frosty"

He was a psychopath trained in karate with a squeaky voice..

Leoluca Bagarella,Toto Riina

Well Filippo Marchese looks scary but i know very little about him.

i see most of yall forgot Greg Scarpa,but my favorite is Don Vitone

I think in the modern age it might be pitera and carneglia.

Salvatore Granello can be included as well, high ranking member of the genovese family as well as a rapist and murderer.

Obviously as someone already said Galante and neil were scary because they were killers but also powerful. Then if you look at regular soldiers you have roy demeo, tony mirra,tommy pitera, tony plate, and tommy desimone who were considered psychopaths even within the mob

Cesar Bonventre is not scary looking.

Maybe not scary looking but he was close to 7 feet tall a known killer and was Carmine's bodyguard to me that's reason enough to include him. Other people have said Gambino,Ricca,Accardo but you thought you'd point out Cesare isn't scary looking
Who would you say?

Thats a tough one to pick. I am biased towards Pitera so I will go with him. Anyone who enjoys standing naked in a bathtub cutting up bodies and getting blood all over him, and feels comfortable doing it around other people, is all I need to make my decision. I wouldn't doubt the fact that he also drank the blood of his victims. Sort of like how hunters drink the blood of a dead deer after they make their first kill.

A virtual giant anywhere, but in Sicily?

Phew. At 6 foot 9 they must have thought the guy was a cartoon bad guy .

That high pitched voice comes from working out, perhaps too much. I don't know the science of it but have been told the wind pipe stretches creating that high pitch. Kinda hard to get used to.

I've never heard of Bonventre, but if he is killed over 20 people and at the same time looks so regular, maybe he was very dangerous.

I'm not sure how many he killed but he must've been a dangerous guy if he was LiLos bodyguard. He wasn't exactly ordinary either as pizzaboy said 6"9 for a sicilian is unusual i mean Barney Bellomo is only around 6 feet and one of his nicknames is the tallguy.

Frank Schweihs & Sam DeStefano and imo, its not even remotely close

i agree destefano was crazy

When I was a kid in Brooklyn the neighborhood tough guy was Frank Sanotra Jr. That guy was scary. He became famous later from the whole Mafia Cops thing, but man I don't think he's ever been done justice in any of the books on how mean and tough he was. That guy I never NEVER would have wanted to mess with, you could see the power in his presence. He also committed a few murders to boot.

Tony Mirra.

What makes you biased towards Pitera??

+1 Those were the two I was going to say.

Scarfo during the 80's for sure. If you sneezed wrong you were dead

Six foot nine? So that's the reason they had to cut him in half and hide him in two different barrels of glue. Guy was too big to fit just into one!

He even didnt allow his soldiers to wear perfumes in his presence,he was alergic or somethin

casso

From what I have read and heard.

If Tommy Desimone is anything like he is in Goodfella's I wouldn't want to cross him he seems like hed kill or hurt anyone who did the slightest thing to aggrevate him

5'10" is unusual for a Sicilian and for many Italians, but 6'9"? That's downright freaky!!

if you ever read scarpa's fbi file theres no dont in my mind joseph profaci was nuts he had the boro of brooklyn on lock and key scarpa said one guy robbed a crap game profaci had him thrown in a furnace alive, killed his guys for stealing gold from a church, kiled kids, wanted carmine lomdozzi and family dead for the fbi agent getting beat just on and on.and whats weird scarpa,persico sonny fransese and the gallo's were all killers made under profaci thou they revolted cause he promoted old guys and was greedy. but there so many killings scarpa indirectly put on this guy he was a sicko and lucky that gambino undermined profaci in the early 60tys or all those guys would have died. even colomob was a bad dude, they all kinda fell for gambino's power play and profici's family were all killers and were tiny compared to gamino's so scapra repoted that could be a curve he said gabino's had 1000 guys profaci 200 well why are all they crazy killers in his family?, that said profaci was never killed or attemped, they kidnapped his family or cousins but they all were let go and he was boss till he died.he was a maniac.

He didn't know which head to think with

This is a tough one because so many were literally out of their minds. How do you pick between Casso, Pitera, Spilotro, DeMeo, Scarpa, Mirra...

Once you passed a threshold, I think there's no "top" psycho...they're just psychos..

You are right Jimmy,any mobster who has killed and buried over 5 bodies in his "back yard" is a legitimate psycho killer

LOL tony spilotro was not a psycho he was a solid soldier who through a series of unlucky events & the laughable film casino became this legendary kingpin killing machine haha. the guy was just a grand ave crew street soldier that busted his ass & ended up being recommended to Cicero by his boss Joe Lombardo as a solid choice to man certain things out in Vegas, surrounded himself with some not so good folks, did some dumb things, got himself and his punk wannabe brother smoked for it. The mob used him big time, they liked him because he was a good earner and he got Vegas primarily due to his relationship with the jew rosenthal. The only reason his name is widely known is because fecarotta botched the burial and it caused a shitstorm. the spilotro bros are viewed as complete goofs in Chicago, its still laughed about that there was a film made about them, but so little was known about the outfit to the general public before Family Secrets/American News Post so the spilotro situation was the only thing he could make a film out of.

So you're sayin that Tony never killed a guy,was a goof,a good earner at the same time and on top of things the movie was laughable ?!?!?

now when did I say he never killed a guy? not everybody who kills a guy is a psycho, that term gets thrown around way too loosely due to its broad definition. Tony is known because the media took notiice because of his involvement with a "legitimate" well known entrepreneur out there (rosenthal). Tony was also a dumbass who didn't get that you need to be low key. look if you've got a hard on for the guy whatever many people do for some really bizarre reason. he was a good soldier that bit off a little bit more than he could chew, put too much trust in his superiors and ended up paying dearly for it. he's not some legendary boss, he was never even an underboss within his own crew lol, guys like Eboli & cozzo, and schweihs were always superior to him within Grand Ave. and he certainly wasn't some mass murdering terrifying psychopath like schweihs.

Sam Destefano, no contest







For some reason he makes me think of that guy from Eraserhead. I used to be scared shitless of that movie

Are you one of thouse ppl?....btw if you put a gun on a persons head and pull the triger 10 times than belive me dude youre A legitimate psycho,and please let me know if theres a person that killed some1 and aint a psycho,you dont need big cojones to kill some1,just stupidity and confusion

who are "those people"? Look all I'm saying the guy isn't even a candidate for most psychotic guy out the GAC, let alone scariest mafioso ever. he wasn't a boss either. I just find it amusing that folks outside of Chicago remember him that way that's all

Im with TooDoped on this.

Thanx Jimmy...Hey ricobenes im not arguing or anything just discussing it cuz im mostly interested bout the Outfit than the other O.C. groups,but i think youre the first one thats sayin that Spilotro was a goof,street rumours maybe i dunno,so i wanted to ask ya if your opinion is that everything in the movie bout Tony is a lie?

The Delcavacante that stuck a fork in that guys eye forget his name

Anthony Capo

Toodoped no it wasn't all a lie, it was highly over exaggerated though. It was made into a film because at the time, it was the only situation regarding the outfit in Vegas that was known about in great detail. The only in depth info they really had on outfit culture at the time was from the Jahoda & Cooley testimonies, and the Spilotro escapades. Plus the story greatly pertained to showbiz, so you add a little pizzazz to it, fabricate a little bit, and you've got a hell of a plot for a film.

As far as the film is concerned, I was very disappointed, I felt like they covered the dumbest, most irrelevant storylines from that situation (I mean who gives a shit about tony banging someone else's wife?), but once again, I can't complain that much because nothing was known prior to the caps Calabrese testimony. I also felt they totally botched the accents, pesci was the only one who generally tried to pull off the Chicago accent proper, and I just felt they could have done some more research & done it a bit better. But now were getting to major Outfit films, Wahlberg is adapting Cooley's "When Corruption Was King" & they are adapting Calabrese Jr's "Family Secrets" tell all, both of which should be very spot on and exciting.

Anyways my whole point was this is a "scariest mafioso ever" discussion and tony Spilotro doesn't belong in it, he was actually a very nice, well liked guy.

hey ricobenes what neighborhoods/suburbs have the most mob activity in chicago today

Berwyn, Lombard, Westchester, Darien, Downers Grove, Chicago Heights, Elmwood Park, Melrose Park, Stone Park and a few others are all suburban hotbeds for Outfit activity. Cicero is the name of the top family but no business is actually conducted within the suburb of Cicero anymore, if that makes any sense. They just control the town & tax the Hispanic businesses there, but they don't live there or fraternize there any longer.

As far as in the city is concerned, The Patch (Grand Avenue Crew), which is the neighbourhood along Grand in between Halsted & Western and the 26th Street/Bridgeport neighbourhood (Chinatown Crew) are obviously still mostly Italian neighbourhoods with heavy outfit activity.

A rat can't be the toughest guy

Hey Ricobenes, thanks for that info. Admittedly, what I know of Spilotro is rather limited to Pesci's portrayal of him in Casion, and his bio on national geographic. Still, didn't he murder or at leas was suspected of murdering over 20 people?

what area of chicago you from

I was born in the patch, so grand & damen area, not two blocks from the Lombardo compound, moved to the Chinatown area when I was in HS, but now reside in the south burbs

Id have to say pitera they found trophies in his houses of his kills.serial killers do that

Anthony Casso in the 1980s!