Tommy Pitera interview?

I have read that Pitera gave an interview once.

Anyone know where to find it? Or maybe you have a copy to post on here? I hear he talked in a very high voice. Is this true?

I don't know about any interviews. According to the Carlo biography, Pitera's voice was always more akin to a woman's than a man's-very soft, high pitched and falsetto.

Yea I heard its def not the kind of voice u would expect a mobster/serial killer to have

We can all pick on his high pitched voice but i would not be saying to him that's for sure, that fellow was a true psycho.

Plus he was a karate master. I mean he was so good he studied in japan with legendary martial artists

I saw that awhile ago he was good at martial arts, a lot of mobsters have their flaws and just like any person that has a high profile or status on whatever level is going to be riduculed for every flaw of theirs

I was reading about him yesterday. Sounds like a real sick bastard.

I read an interview with Philip Carlo where he said he tried to work with Pitera early on for the book but gave up for some reason, not sure if that mean he actually intervewed him for it or not. He did say, though, that he was actually frightened after it came out because Pitera and his whole family were pissed at him for digging up all this old stuff. He said the only reason he didn't really care that much was because he already had ALS.

Would be an interesting interview anyway.

It's interesting how in the mob you have some guys who are relatively normal and then guys like Pitera and a whole host of others who are almost serial killer types.

Pietra was a serial killer.the only reason he's not labeled as such is cus he was in the mafia.he kept trophy from his victims. And they don't kno who all of it belongs to or how many people he killed or wat.I bet its alot

Does anybody know of any books on him other than the one by Philip Carlo?

i read the book. what trophies? not doubting you btw,just got a bad memory.

that pitera having a woman's voice thing is phil carlo exaggerated bs.

They found jewelry that belonged to dead or missing people in his safes. He kept his dead gfs underwear for gods sake.in n empty apt.crazy

Did he keep Willie Boy's tomahawk or scalp?

Tommy Karate got an advanced copy of the book and supposedly was not pleased. Carlo was a little worried and reached out to Chuck Zito who was/is a friend with top guys in the Bonanno's including Vinny Basciano and Bruno Indelicato.

Carlo writes about it here.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VVYYRbXzHSwC&pg=PT118

Carlo corresponded with Tommy before the book was written and told TONS of lies to Tommy.

Carlo was simply a bad human being, as if all the lies he told did not tip you off.

Did Carlo pass away?

Yes

read that carlo claimed that tommy was a closet tranny?

]no he used to dress up as a woman to fulfill contracts,also carlo went to the prison he was in,to see if he was interested in getting his life story told but pitera said he was wrongfully imprisoned and innocent, (lies) so carlo got info on him from frank gangi,neighbour people,cops and others....

carlo and gangi

i was in usp allenwood with tommy.sat right beside him at the t.v and worked out with him. couple of the mobsters were in our block 2a. Anthony senter, chuckie russo joe monty.tommy was shunned by the others. beef over a rat from ny. tommy is a stand up man I consider him a friend ..still talk with once a month when he calls. he is craxy as hell. thinks he is getting out of prison. he is a genious about history , murder weapons ,karate. still in top shape for age ..yoga weights. splits.his voice is weird.its not a womens voice .just different. he is only 5'5 tall..he has eyes like a shark. no emotion behind them...it was a honor meeting them guys..they stood up and took there punishment..no telling.. kept there vows and all doing life..REAL GANGSTERS..and at that time would of been let go..cause nobody had really told yet in the mob

he did correspond with carlo by letter . telling him to rewrite all the bs lies that nobody could of known. no doubt tommy did some things. but carlo iwas trying to sell a book also.. and the iceman is the biggest fraud of all time..a nobody..says he killed roy demeo..lol..Anthony and joey ]killed roy..says he walked into the Gemini lounge after roy gave him a beating..lol..roy would of killed him on the spot.. then Anthony and joey would of cyt him up..that is the biggest bs book ever written..i know I was told by tommy personally ..that guy was some jew from jersey..they had there own hitman..they wouldn't hire a outsider.fraud that whole book is..

his voice is not really high..its hard to explain.. its not what you expect..its carefull AND quiet with a small pitch is best way to explain it..

carlo is a clown and say anything to sell a book. I personaly know tommy.. the farthest thing from a tyranny..you kidding me..tommy would take his head off for saying that.. literally

tommy never got a advanced copy..he wrote tommy and asked for a interview.. tommy said no...after the book tommy wrote him disputoing a lot of the things carlo wrote.. I read the things tommy wrote..he said half the shit was made up..lies..carlo is a fraud a writer and will do anything to sell a book.. he gavethe iceman 10k to say things for his book.. iceman is the biggest lie in mafia history..he was not in the mafia and certainly did not kill for the mafia..I was in allenwood with tommy become friends with tommy..

what was tommy like in person was he violent guy that could go off at anytime?

no he was very nice and respectfull, give you the shirt off his back. knoew extensively about war, history. very good shape for in his 50s, he is crazy though. talks to himself..mumbles to himself. I use to sit right next to him at the tv.. he would cover his mouth like he was on a walk and talk and mumble shit..lol..nuts..his cellie was a kid name jimmy from ri. said he would talk to himself all the time.. other then that he was a great dude. had many talks and he showed me work out stuff..

Thats nice. Thanks for sharing

There is a Tommy Pitera prison interview and it was posted on Philip Carlo's website shortly after he died. I was very surprised to see it, There was brief narration by the same women that did the "Iceman" documentary... His voice was not odd at all. I read so much about it in the Carlo book that I expected Michael Jackson's voice to come out of him but it there was nothing unusual about it! then a few weeks later it was taken down and never heard anything else about it. The interview lasted no more that 2 minutes and basicly Tommy said they put him away for life because he kept his mouth shut (which I believe)

Its sad that Philip Carlo passed away. Imagine all the books he would have released in the future? I always loved reading his books.

It's sad that he passed away, but the guy was a no talent hack as a writer.

I strongly disagree.

To each his own.

I think his book on Casso was a great read, albeit a little biased due to their prior "relationship" as neighbours, if it holds any real truth (his family having sunday dinner at the Casso's etc).

Sad that he passed, but as a writer he was okay. No Mark Twain, but his books were entertaining. Haven't bothered reading the book on Kuklinski. That guy is too full of shit.

Damn I woulda loved to see that interview!! Yea I did enjoy reading Carlo's books, mostly because he wrote about guys I was very interested in (Pitera, Casso, Iceman, etc) but I do realize alot of the shit he wrote was a bit fantasized (very fantasized in the Iceman book) but still enjoyed em. Someones gotta be able to dig up that Tommy Karate interview tho!!

You might be able to buy it directly from the channel that conducted the interview that's how aposter here got a hold of the Casso interview.

Tru tru...ill give it a try thanx Cam

I tried to use the Internet archive WayBack Machine to access the interview but no luck. You can access some of his old website but unfortunately the website crawlers didn't copy his interview page.

No problem, good luck.

Terrible writer

You could do any better?

That's not the point. Writers are artists in their own little way. So they're open to the criticisms of anyone who plunks down the twenty bucks to buy one of their books.

Agree. Take my money,take my opinion.

DP

I believe this interview was done with Mary Murphy, of CBS or one of the other major networks. Can anyone find it? Or is sitting on it? It would be a HUGE help if I could get my hands on it...

I have the gaspipe and pitera books and I enjoyed them...I also wouldn't buy the kuklinski one...You know most is gonna be BS !!

just a guess but I don't think theres a interview maybe he wrote a letter to capeci, but I would guess some one would post it. I remember he wrote gangland to talk shit about a witness.

I read all three of those books and enjoyed the Pitera and Gaspipe books. While the Kucklinski book was somewhat interesting,you could see right from the start that the BS was flying The author could have helped his credibility by looking more deeply into Kucklinski's claims

It's a shame that a boy was made into one of the most gruesome killers in that category because of constantly being bullied throughout his childhood for a thing as small as a high pitch voice.

Tommy for sure did an interview.


And as I said before that thing about Tommy having a freakishly high voice is 100% Carlo BS.

Don't take my word for it check out the book "Bringing Down the Mob" the agents mention he sounded like Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death."

I don't know how you can say you know him, yet say the voice thing is BS. I know someone who was very recently his cellie and his voice is high pitched. So you saying his voice is normal is wrong, unless you hear differently than anyone else.

voice thing or not he was one bad a.. gangster..

so the diff answer is no interview?

As far as i can tell, carlo almost never got his facts right on anything. He repeatedly allowed psychos to use his name to publish essentially highly positive apologetics about their lives.

No reason to think the voice thing is anything more then another bizzo carlo myth.

Let me guess, you think Dan Brown is the greatest writer of the century (which compared to Carlo he is)?