Scariest Mafiosos?

Who are some of the scariest Mafiosos--guys that even elicited fear from their fellow mobsters.

For example, the way very few, not even John Gotti, wanted to take on Roy DeMeo when the contract to kill DeMeo was being offered around?

Sammy DeStefano.
The very first made guy Auippa/Cerone killed after Paul Ricca died. Dyno was crazy and had no fear of anyone. He enjoyed killing people.

Ricca & Giancana had to stop him from killing Bill Roemer the F.B.I. Agent. He would have tortured him first.

He killed his own brother Mario DeStefano. He belonged to Ricca/Giancana (Taylor St).

Tony merra and tommy karate are two names that come to mind, they fit the profile of serial killers rather than that of a mobster.

How many damn threads do you need?

What is your complaint? Are you paying for each new thread?

right on point..caso , scarfo.as add on's

I would say the Chicago guys during the Giancana and Aiuppa days. They had so many pyschotic torturers, I doubt anyone would want to take them on. Even Tony Spilotro thought Chuck Nicoletti was cold hearted for eating spaghetti while Billy McCarthy was getting his head crushed in a vice and his eyeballs popped out of his head. Mad Sam DeStefano used a carving knife to fillet one of his victims alive. The Action Jackson hit is legendary for the brutality.

Carmine Galante and Neil Dellacroce

John "Moose" Marrone. If you include nut jobs id say joe fulco, ronnie castellano. Fighters? Tommy R and Flash.

Skinny is Tommy R, Tommy Reynolds? Whose Flash?

Im a Boston kid but Ive read that Tommy R was very good with his hands

Delacroce was the scariest looking guy IMO, them eyes are just evil lol and his reputation of being a killer. Scary man.

Tommy R, i meant Riccardi. Senior not junior. Flash is a SI/BK legend. On the record with Watts. But u cant mention those guys without saying joe bilotti too. Bronx knows more about those guys... Lots of tough guys. I could name two hundred. Bodybuilders, martial arts guys, psychos.... About a quarter of them are (or will be) rats/doing life. If not killed.

But as far as scaring the shit out of a guy. Johnny Marrone. Dead eyes. looks like that mug of tino, except brown eyes. empty, kinda shell shocked look. I cant really explain it well. Im sure dellacroce had them too, as do most guys who've done a ton of work. look at james holmes mugshot too. same thing.

Thanks Skinny.

Ralph Salerno, i think from the NYPD organized crime unit years ago said the 2 guys who sent chills down his spine when he would look into their eyes were Carmine Galante and Neil Dellacroce.

Don't know if this is true or not but a NYPD went up and questioned Dellacroce and said when he looked Neil in the eyes his spine started to shiver, the officer was shook up by the encounter.

Don't know if there's any truth to it but its online.

hey skinny what is the story/ status on Marrone? Edison guy but a player in middlesex/monmouth county area? what crew is he in or is a capo? im assuming a genovese one... he was just released right?

Originally a newark or bergen co guy. A lot of those guys moved south. Workhorse of a guy. He was with Joe the indian polverino (sp) originally id say. That crew went to Sal Lombardi, i cant say for sure where he is today. If i had to guess id say under Palumbo or transfered to the old gerardo/dephillips/devita crew. Dont think hes very active now. Hes getting old, hes got legit money, but not a whole lot as i understand it. If hes got anything going its a little shy to guys he trusts.

Mad Sam Destefano everyone feared him

Vito Genovese in pics of him when he was younger because he looked like Frankenstein lol. In general i'd agree with Sam Destefano though. I'm pretty sure this topic has been done before btw.

there was a qoute by a cop or agent that looking at dellacroce was like peering into the eyes of the angel of death. i think it was in the book boss of bosses

frank schweihs and jimmy burke looked like mean guys.

DeStafano was just an associate, wasn't he?

Iceman999,
I think he was a associate but outfit experts on this site claim he was a made man.

What about Angelo "The Hook" Lapietra?" I don't think he was anywhere near DeStefano in terms of being crazy, but he was brutal, very brutal.

He was made

Thanks NickyEyes1

He and his brother Jimmy were very brutal. There is an old story out of Cicero of a lawyer who owed them a considerable amount of money. So they grabbed him off the streets and took him to the back of some pizza place or something in Cicero. They stripped him naked and tied him to the burning hot radiator and spent spent a day beating and torturing him. The lawyer was allowed to call his mother and when she appeared with the money owed plus interest, she was greeted to the sight of Jimmy urinating on her son. They were brutal guys...

I think that was Mad Sam. It was in Bill Roemer's book, unless the LaPietra brothers did the same thing

Tony Mirra
Gemini twins
Roy DeMeo
Tony "Roach" Rampino
Tommy Pitaro
Charles Carniglia
Gaspipe Casso
Not necessarily in that order

Why does it seem that anyone from Chicago are complete psychopaths, Destefano of course but than ,Fifi b, Giancana, Nicoletti, all of Taylor St., Lapitera brothers, , Turello,Spilotro, im probably forgetting a few, the common thing about these guys everyone seems to say is they were brutal and usually have torture stories amongst them. Than you got , Auippa, Lombardo,Calabrese who werent known as torturers but known to have killed alot of people and the Chicago Heights crew who are the least known but have been described as "rough", something must be in the pizza their

I cant speak of what i seen in movies or what i have read in books. because you just dot know scary till u live it.But in real life i have sat with Nicky Scarfo idk 100 times or more and hewas never rightup stairs i dont mean not smart but not right very scary...I have sat with Camine Persico lots I have met Gaspipe twice at Carmines farm....All three in real life r very scary....

Interesting. You sat down with the Snake? Impressive. Could you tell us something specific about him?

I could tell u lots but i still hang with alot of that fam.I will have to be very carful what i say....with nicky and fam it is diff what i say could of been 5 or 6 of us that were around and know what i say here ....but Persicos are diff.I have been in the snakes house i have looked at fam photos i heve rode horses rode 4 wheelers snowmobiles ..I have been in his pool sat at his bar...

No, don´t get me wrong. You don´t have to say anything incriminating about him. Just what is he like? That farm is something else hu? Where was it located again...I can´t remember... The Mountain Side Ranch soemthing... I read about it.

no thats not what it is called ,and is a quiet man but open.The fam all of them act like they r better then everyone but i guess that comes with power...and yes it is very nice 5 houses barns fountains big pool larger then norm outside bar a slide ,a small lake...up state

In no particular order.....

Demeo
Mirra
Pitera
Destefano
Spilotro

Someone else just came to mind. What about the guy in Vegas, I believe his name was Larry Neumann (sp)? Even Spilotro was said to fear him.

How is the Columbo family doing cash and earning wise

I just don't know much about those guys

I know they had some earners and killers back in the day but curious how they are doing today

Sicilians are scarier.

Filippo Marchese
Leoluca Bagarella
Giovanni Brusca
Givanni Greco
Giuseppe Lucchese

Lots of book and gamblin clubs. Machines and shylocking are a level below and drugs and robberies/scores for the low level guys. Still union pull in bk and si

Roy Demeo
Greg Scarpa
Jimmy Burke
Nicki Scarfo


In no order!

I might put in there Gaspipe

I forgot to add Albert Anastasia!

WTF!!!
Spilotro feared someone?
Anyone have any details please?

The Howard Crew looks pretty scary to me


Capo: Moe Howard aka Slappy


Soldier: Larry Fine aka The Porcupine


Soldier: Curly Howard aka Crazy Curly


Associate: Shemp Howard aka Two Guns


Associate: Curly Joe Besser aka Fat Joe


Associate: Curly Joe DeRita aka Joe The Wop

Here's something on Larry Neumann


http://mafiatoday.com/tag/larry-neumann/

Gene Gotti

Sammy DeStefano.

Is he the guy that would hang people with meathooks up there ass? Thats pretty fucked, he defiantly deserves the no1 spot
Is that a joke?

Dellacroce, No, You're thinking about a couple other guys who did the meat hook hanging.

Sammy was a torture specialist and enjoyed torturing and then killing people. Very dangerous man.

He was the first guy Auippa/Cerone killed after Paul Ricca died in 1972.

Didn't Destefano do Action Jackson?

(And welcome back cotter! (Chicago))

O ok thanks man
Ya that was the story i was thinking of.

What do you know about Larry Neumann?

Thanks Sonny,
I think the Taylor St. Guys that did Action Jackson were FiFi Bucciere and Turk Torello.

Action Jackson was a Soldier/Associate who was a member of Torello's Juice Crew.

Torello belonged to Bucciere who was one of the two Capos within the huge extended Taylor St Power Crew.

Ironic thing was that Jackson was innocent. He was not an informer. This is what happens sometimes when a guy doesn't have strong support, especially a non made guy. He is almost powerless against a false accusation if his Bosses believe it.
Welcome to the real world of the Mafia.

Sorry Gary, Don't know much about Neumann except that he was with Tony Spilotro in Las Vegas Crew.

I'd have to ask Tony's son or his mother, Nancy.

Regarding Chicago, destefano obviously, and then schweihs & aleman come to mind.

Greg Scarpa has to be one of the scariest wiseguys of all time

SENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mad Sam wad such a scary prick a scary prick indeed. He sure likedv showing people his deformed looking penis.

Senter!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparantly to become a made guy in the outfit you got to be a straight menace, all those guys from te 50's-60's are straight loons, anything have to do with the pizza?

They put a special ingredient in the pizza on Taylor St. years ago.

Yeah torello, buccieri, nicoletti, & battaglia are up there as well. Giancana obviously as well.

Huron, You'll never see a Crew like the extended Taylor St
Crew ever again. They were like the Beatles of the Mafia. Never be equaled.

Giancana's first high profile hit was a certain Diamond Joe Esposito.

The crew (Taylor St) seems more or less to have been the administration of the family and therefore can you really look at them as a "Crew"? That's just how it seems to me I could be off by a mile.

You're not off by a mile, but I will explain it.
The Administration was actually Ricca, Accardo & Giancana.

The power behind Giancana was the Taylor St Crew.
The made men in the Taylor St Crew were like first among equals compared to all the other made men because they were DIRECT with Mooney. They were all partnered with Mooney or were partnered with Battaglia or Bucciere AND Mooney.

However, the money from the other Crews still flowed upward to Mooney who shared with Ricca and Accardo in one way or another.
Make sense?

a lot of the Scarfo guys to were scary, they weren't anywhere near Taylor St. but they all were killers ready to kill whoever, whenever, in New York they would of just been a toned down version of the Demeo crew with Testa the made guy running it with Scarfo being the capo like Nino.

That is the funniest/awesomest saying I've heard in a long time. The Beatles of the mafia. That's great. Made me laugh like hell. But yes, you are right about the Taylor St. boys. They were huge around the same time as the Beatles too. Was a different time back then but they are unequaled by any other crew in the country at thst time or now. I think they beat the demeo crew as much as people want to hero worship this crew. The Taylor Street Crew rules the day. They are the boyz of the first day of America, not just nyc or chicago. They had em all beat for moneymaking ability and sheer ruthlessness for sure.

black and white pics of the younger days of vito genovese and carmine galante make them look like some of the scariest guys i've seen in my life. they have "killer" painted all over their faces