The Most Vicious and Brutal Mob Hit...

Who was it...

A) Ernest "Ernie the Hawk" Rupolo (New York)

B) Antonio "Tony Bananas" Caponigro (Philadelphia)

C) William "Action" Jackson" (Chicago)

D) Albert Agueci (Buffalo)

C. Willliam Action Jackson

Skinned alive with almost every bone broken in his body while being tortured for 3 days. They cut off his dick as well and hung him by a meat hook through his ass.

There is a special place in hell for the animals that did that. If I was their capo, they would have been killed instantly for doing that.

LOL. Yeah, that was no joke! He was tortured severely...Thats what's called, really giving a guy his "buckwheats."

If I remember correctly, during those three days of torture, hanging from that meathook, they would also throw a pail of water on him and then hit him with an electric cattle prod...just for the "added fun of it" all.

There are are some notable honorable mentions, although not quite on u he scale of the aforementioned victims. Tommy DeSimone was said to have been tortured before dying a painful death at the hands of John Gotti and Tommy Agro. Andrei Katz was allegedly slapped in the face with his own dismembered hand while being tortured by members of the Gemini Crew at the Pantry Pride in Rockaway. Jimmy Hydell suffered greatly for many hours at the hands of Gaspipe, before being murdered.

If something like this happened to a YouTube rat, I guarantee you that the others would shut the fuck up.

Lol

Why in the world would you do that? The guy deserved it.

E) Francis Turatello

Killed by Pasquale Barra ,the prison executioner on the orders of Raffaele Cutolo.
After stabbing Turatello to death, Barra removed his liver and heart and took a bite out of both.

The Agueci hit was also quite gruesome. Also dont forget the torture/murder of Billy McCarthy, which was executed by Spilotro and possibly Chuck Nicoletti.

Yes, I agree, TD. The Agueci murder was also a very vicious "next-level" hit.

But I'm not familiar with the Billy McCarthy story. What happened there?

McCarthy's story is one part of the M&M murders case. McCarthy was brutally tortured by Spilotro for few days and in the end, McCarthy's head was placed in a vise until one of his eyes popped out (scene which was immortalized in the Casino movie), while Nicoletti was allegedly eating pasta. In the end McCarthy's throat was slashed.

Oh, ok, so he's the guy who's head the crushed in the vise. I remember that now. Never knew his name

How about the Spilotro brothers?

"ONLY" beaten to death with fists and possibly baseball bats for less then an hour Lol lol

Was Michael Spilotro actually buried alive? And was it actually in a cornfield?

Yes buried alive and wiseguy that buried them was killed because the feds found the bodies.

Worked for Angelo LaPietra. John Fecarotta.

Yes they were buried in an Indiana cornfield (near Aiuppa's residence), although I don't remember if the two of them were buried ALMOST alive, meaning it might've been one of them who was still breathing or something like that (you can look it up).

Spilotro belonged to the Grand Avenue crew, first under Battaglia and Alderisio, and later under Nicoletti, followed by Lombardo and later by Louis Eboli, who in turn was involved in the actual hit.

There is a town called St. Anne in Illinois where Aiuppa had a private hunting club just east of town.

I think theres a footage of Aiuppas farm and in one of the barns there was a pool table and also a barber chair which was placed as a trophy. The only Chicago Mafioso that I personally read about who was killed in a barber chair was Black Tom O'Neglia during the early 1940s. Who knows, maybe back in those days Aiuppa also had some type of involvement in the whole situation or when the Outfit was fighting the Northsiders for the second time?!

It was a gathering of newly appointed bosses, capos and soldiers who executed the two murders, by beating to death both victims with fists and possibly baseball bats. In fact, the Spilotro murders was some type of "contract" which showed the loyalty of all members who recently received high positions by implicating them in the same crime, meaning it was between all of them and they had to keep quiet but as we all know, decades later Nick Calabrese (also involved in the murders) broke the "omerta".

Sorry man, I tried to manually put in the emoji and it came out question marks.

its ok bud, later I also realized that but after posting my answer

I imagine it must suck to be a mobster today, nobody fears and respects you anymore. Gotta eat spaghetti with ketchup. It was rumors and confirmations of murders like the ones described here or just brutality and murder in general that ensured when you went out to the club, people lowered their heads in fear and respect. They didn't even look at you wrong. I can only imagine how exhilarating that felt. All of the pride and honor is gone.

There was a Camorra murder in the book Gomorrah that was so gruesome it puts them all to shame, except for maybe the Action Jackson hit.

I wouldn't have a problem killing people, I'm not particularly morally opposed to it. But I can't see myself doing some of these things. It would have to be pretty bad.

It's one thing to do a "piece of work." But its quite another to act as a depraved animal and God-less degenerate.

When you're in that life with two-feet, and not just on the periphery, you're expected to be "capable" as the phrase goes. Whether or not you're ever called upon, or put into that situation, to have to actually fulfill that oath, is another matter altogether.

Contrary to popular belief, many guys, (although all of them take the oath,) many guys are never called upon for such things....

But, if and when their numbers gets called, rarely are they ever asked to massacre someone or defile the victims body.

When you see that, its generally because the fella assigned the hit is a ranked-degenernate who takes glee in such acts of depravity.

90% of the guys who are involved in clipping someone do so because they're obligated. They don't relish such tasks and do so with some hesitation. And they "execute" their orders (pardon the pun), in a business like way...By just shooting the guy that needs to go.

The methods of stabbing, strangling, etc., adds another "level" that is sometimes employed...But thats about it.

When you read about dismemberment, cutting off heads and limbs, setting on fire, horrible beatings, cutting off testicles, pipe shoved up their rectum, etc., etc., etc....these are all added because a "message" is being sent out to others.

And trust me when I tell ya, that when things like that are done, its a small cadre of guys who perform such gruesome tasks. NOT the general membership who usually have no stomach for such horrors.

anyone that would engage in such barbaric brutality is just pure evil and not meant for this world. Shooting someone is one thing but to do something so horrific is another and any boss worth his salt would have someone clipped for that. I also don't believe the gemini crew did that kind of shit when a guy was alive, it was after he was dead. although still senseless.

The cartels do it daily, on a wholesale scale! There are people out there I hate pretty bad, not gonna lie. The people who did these things though are capable of doing it to people they never even met, that's a whole other level.

Doesn't the cartels put babies in microwaves or some shit? They definitely beat the mob and every other group in brutality and depravity.

A lot has to do with the motive for killing the victim. If it's a vendetta, all bets are off and anything can happen. Rats and people who have killed your friends or your family are fair game, especially. Dismemberment, acid baths ( a la the Carneglia bros.), cement overcoats, furnaces ( Vincent Squillante) are to ensure no body is discovered, no body, no crime was Roy DeMeo's motto. Torture is a different ballgame and is inherently sadistic, I think that is a classic indicator of a serial killer. I think the only people tortured by the DeMeo Crew were Andrei Katz and Mike DeCarlo (Mikey Muscles the pedophile). As far as any info I'm putting out there about the DeMeo Crew, it is no farther than 4 persons removed from the actual incident. Freddy DiNome tells Det. Frank Pergola who tells Quentin Walker who tells me and I tell you. Or, in some instances I've gotten it from Pete LaFroscia and I tell you.

Agree. If a guy harmed your personal family or committed some atrocious act against you...then I think anything is possible based on the level of hatred you may have for this guy.

General hits are, or should be, different. Hit em, drop em, and go home!

But, sadistic killings and depraved stuff is in a category ALL its own. lol...as well it should be. The guys who commit these types of murders are sickies themselves.

Back in the old days most of the sadistic murders represented a warning for the rest of the membership. I dont think that Giancana cared much regarding the truth on whether Jackson was an informant or not, but instead he stumbled upon a chance to make an example of one of their associates so the rest of the members can follow orders, obviously under the threat of a brutal death. I also think there was a rumor that Giancana allegedly passed some pics from the brutal murder to some of his associates but Im not still able to confirm that story.

Yes Giancana was sadistic. Actually, Chicago period was one of the most depraved Mafia families in America.

Thats right. As for Giancana, he was both sadist and rapist, same as Mad Sam or Cerone. I mean, what do you expect from a guy like Nicoletti who killed his own father, when Chuck was just a small kid?! He obviously had no problem eating Italian food while watching one of his victim's eye popping out.

St. Valentine's Day massacre was really brutal. The shooters didn't even check to see if Bugs Moran was in that lineup---they just shotgunned and machinegunned everyone in the garage, including a civilian. That was the beginning of the end for Capone.

Chicago had so many nutcases lol Ricca, Accardo, Humphreys were reasonable,smart guys the others were crazy.

Every guy that was murdered in the 70s ended up having their throat cut from ear to ear and strangled for the most part. Also remember they did far worse than that many times. Chicago's killers were psychotic.

It's sad that a civilian got hit, but even though they didn't get Bugs Moran, from my understanding they got his gang and clipped his wings, so to speak.

They managed to eliminate both of Moran's close associates the Gusenberg brothers, Frank and Pete, a situation which signaled the end of the old O'Banion-Moran gang. The massacre received huge media and government attention because Capone's name came up and also because it occurred in the second largest city at the time. Before that or previously, there was allegedly another same type of massacre by using cop cars and uniforms but that one occurred in Indiana and didnt receive much publicity, not until the one in Chicago.

....also, dont forget the brutal tortures and murders that occurred in Chicago during the 1950s regarding the Bolita racket. All Latino operators were shaking in their boots at the time.

....and the 1943 brutal murder of Estelle Carey. She was the girlfriend of Outfit member Nick Circella who in turn was indicted together with Ricca and the rest of the bosses in the infamous Hollywood extortion case. Story goes that Circella was allegedly ready to talk or was blamed for bringing some of the rats, and so her murder was a message for him.

The killers first started to stab the woman with an ice pick several times and later they broke her jaw, cut her with a knife and also burned her with an electric iron. In the end they poured flammable liquid on her legs and set them on fire. The poor girl's heart immediately stopped from the pain and so she finally died.

A burglary crew broke into Tony Accardo's River Forest Mansion on January 6, 1978. Here is a timeline of what happened afterwards.

January 15, 1978 – Outfit burglar John Mendell disappears 11 days after leading a break-in of Accardo’s house as payback for Accardo ordering Mendell and his crew to return a giant score from the robbery of a jewelry store they had pulled off in the days before Christmas 1977. The owner of the jewelry store was a friend of Accardo’s and requested the Big Tuna’s aid in retrieving the stolen merchandise. Mendell’s body wasn’t found until February 20, discovered in the trunk of his car on a southside street corner, naked, hogtied, stabbed and strangled to death.

January 20, 1978 – Outfit burglar Bernard (Buddy) Ryan, second-in-command in the Mendell burglary ring, is found behind the wheel of his Lincoln Continental sitting on the side of a west-suburban street with four bullets lodged in the back of his head and his throat slit.

February 2, 1978 – Outfit burglar Stevie Garcia, Ryan’s right-hand man, is found slain in the trunk of his car in a Sheraton Hotel parking lot by O’Hare Airport, stabbed to death with his throat slit.

February 4, 1978 – Outfit burglar and fence Vince Moretti and his buddy Don Renno are beaten to death, their throats slashed, in a Cicero bar in what became known in Chicago mob circles as the “Strangers in the Night Murders,” due to the fact that the song was playing on the bar’s jukebox as Moretti and Renno were being killed. Moretti was an ex-cop and seen wearing Accardo’s monogramed gold, diamond-encrusted cuff links around town in the days after the high-profile heist. While Moretti was a high-ranking member of Mendell’s crew, Renno, a small-time crook, wasn’t and just happened to be with Moretti when he was summoned to be clipped.

April 6, 1978 – Outfit burglar Robert (Bobby Toggs) Hertogs is found in the trunk of his car in a grocery store parking lot on Grand Avenue, shot in the back of the head and his throat slashed. Hertogs was connected to the Mendell crew and had fallen behind on a juice loan.

April 14, 1978 – Outfit burglar Johnny McDonald, the final Mendell crew member to get bumped off, is found lying dead in a westside alley, shot in the back of the head and his throat cut. McDonald allegedly was forced to set Buddy Ryan up to be killed.

October 5, 1978 – The Accardo residence’s Sicilian caretaker Michael Volpe vanishes on his way to work in the days after testifying too candidly in front of a federal grand jury investigating the string of slayings linked to the break-in.

May 22, 1979 – Outfit lieutenant and hit man Anthony (Little Tony) Borselino is found in a Will County cornfield shot in the back of the head. Borselino was part of the infamous Wild Bunch, a westside troop of assassins dispatched on the Chicago mob’s most pressing murder assignments, and suspected in taking part in a number of the slayings tied to the fallout from the break-in.

September 18, 1979 – Outfit lieutenant and hit man Gerald (Jerry the Dinger) Carusiello is shot in the back of the head and left on the concrete an in Addison, Illinois apartment complex parking lot. Carusiello was a driver and bodyguard for Accardo’s acting boss Joseph (Joey Doves) Aiuppa and suspected in at least one of the fallout slayings.

Vince Moretti was the twin brother of Salvatore Moretti and they both worked as Melrose Park detectives during the 1950s. Sometimes if Giancana had a problem with someone, he called for William Daddono who in turn called Salvatore Moretti to take care of the problem. Even though Moretti was sometimes direct with Giancana, still he was placed to work under Daddano. Since Moretti was fired from the park police force in 1952, later he worked as a "bird dog" in selling autos, meaning he worked as a broker who puts buyers in touch with auto dealers and collects a commission but his “second job” was being Outfit enforcer.

One of their brothers Michael Moretti was so notorious that one night, with no particular reason, he shot three people (they were six children). In March 1957, Daddono received an order from Giancana to find Salvatore Moretti and to give him the “murder contract” on one banker and land developer known as Leon Marcus, but when Moretti eliminated his target, he forgot to check the victim's pockets for any implicating records, such as the name of the boss himself, Sam Giancana. And that’s what happened. When the cops found some small papers with Giancana’s name on it, Moretti’s fate was sealed. On April 12, 1957, Salvatore Moretti’s strangled and bullet riddled body was found in a car trunk on a country road south of Plainfield, Will County.

So his brother Vince orchastrated the burglary on Accardos home almost two decades later as some type of revenge for the murder of his twin brother. Story goes that Vince had enough from the Outfit and Accardo taking their stolen goods and returning it to its owner, was the last straw.

My mother was childhood friends with one of Borselinos daughters. She didnt know he was connected until after he got whacked. He never brought his business into his home. She did admit though that he always dressed well and took care of himself, but just thought he was your normal everyday businessman. They lived in a modest home in the neighborhood located in Lombard.

If my memory serves me right, Borsellino was killed by Scarpelli and I think they were both members of Cicero's Wild Bunch...

Blowing up Falcone in Italy like that was pretty brutal, but the Castellano killing of 2 Gambino heavyweights 2 weeks before Christmas at rush hour in manhattan was crazy brutal also.

They're not talking about Borsellino as in Falcone & Borsellino lol

Lol lol those two belonged to the "Passive Bunch" lol

One murder in Australia in particular.The 1945 murder of Giuseppe "Fat Joe" Versace was horrific. His stomach was cut open. He was stabbed in the face, neck and torso.

If it didnt last for at least 48 hours, it doesnt count Lol lol

LOL.

In Calabria Francesco Raccosta was beaten with iron bars before being thrown screaming into a sty where he was swiftly eaten by hungry pigs. His horrifying death was the latest bloody instalment in a 60-year feud between warring members of an Italian crime syndicate, detectives say.29 nov 2013

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mafia-don-francesco-raccosta-eaten-2862663

I think the DeMeo killings at the Gemini Lounge probably is in the top 5 or I would say Number 1 for sure !

How about the Mad Sam DeStafano victim who he tortured for 3 days by burning, electrocuting, cutting, beating and so forth? He invited the guys family to dinner when he was done with him, and after they were done eating, he served the guy up for dessert by bringing the guy out. Forced his entire family to piss on him among other things which I don't think we need to get into too much detail.

If they ever made a movie on this guy back in the day, Anthony Hopkins would have been the perfect choice to play the role.

By the way, I wonder if Mad Sam enjoyed a nice bottle of chianti when he took pleasure in this.

Mad Sam wouldve eaten their brains for breakfast lol just kidding

See my previous post! Would love your feedback on it.

If you compare Mad Sam to the DeMeo Crew that guy was Mentally Disturbed the DeMeo Crew are Choir Boys compared to that Maniac there was No goodness in that Guy if you wanna Compare what he did

I would not be surprised if Mad Sam butt fucked the men he tortured. He was a very sick human being in more ways than one.

. Sick indeed. As others have mentioned he is infamous for the torture killing of William Action Jackson. Also the time he supposedly kidnapped a guy and brought him him and forced him to have sex with his wife when she supposedly pissed him off

Another very vicious gangland slaying took place many many decades ago, back in Brooklyn, NY when Pittsburgh boss Giovanni (John) Bazzano was lured under the pretext of a "group" dinner meeting with other Cosa Nostra leaders.

During the course of the dinner and their friendly get-together, he was set upon by everyone at the table, (which reportedly numbered a dozen to two dozen mafiosi,) who then beat and repeatedly stabbed him dozens and dozens of times, massacring Bazzano where he sat.

His mutilated corpse was then placed inside a burlap bag and thrown to the curb of a Brooklyn street...discarded like the trash they considered Bazzano to be. His grizzly remains were found early the next morning by passerby.

This was a legendary and pivotal killing in the annals and development of organized crime in this country.

Something out of a horror movie. What year did this happen?

In 1932, I think

Was there any retaliation for this act of brutality?

No, none whatsoever. To the contrary, this action was the retaliation for Bazzano's unauthorized murder of several of Pittsburgh's Volpe brothers, who were under the Mafia's protection and should not have been harmed.

Bazzano's execution was the "vendetta" that settled the matter.