I know that his crew were supposedly going through hundreds a year, legend or fact, who knows. But DeMeo was definitely an animal; apparently towards the end of his life they were killing for pleasure rather than a purpose.
You should read about Richard Kuklinski, who met up with DeMeo, who took him out into one night to test who he was and asked to him to kill some stranger on sight, and when Richard Kuklinski did, DeMeo knew straight away that he was a killer like him. I also know that Castellano found it difficult to find someone to kill DeMeo; people like John Gotti didn't want to take the contract on him.

[ December 03, 2001: Message edited by: giovanni ]