Probably not. The NYPD cleared 75 homicides and disappearances by attributing them to the DeMeo crew (and that was all of them combined, not just Roy).

The 200 figure seems to come from the hyperbole of Artie Ruffels, who for some reason tries to make DeMeo sound even deadlier than he was (apparently 75 murders isn't enough ). In one interview, Ruffels claims the crew killed THREE hundred people. GTFOH Artie!

Not to be outdone by Artie, Dominick Montiglio estimated 500-700 in one interview. No joke.

Wow. Was he drunk or high or something?

A lot of law enforcement types do this - exaggerate the significance of the mobsters they are up against, even if the reality of the mobsters is that they were deadly, powerful, and require no exaggeration to sound formidable. Bill Roemer was pretty bad about it. So is Pistone, with his insistence that there's still an open bounty on his head.

This is one of the weirder phenomena in the history of law enforcement vs organized crime. I call it "gangster inflation". It is very, very silly.

It was during an interview back in the 1990's that Steve Dunleavy did. The tagline was something like, "Meet the Mafia crew who killed more people than were killed in the Gulf War."

I think they say silly numbers like this because of the way in which the crew disposed of the remains and nobody knows for sure an exact figure, so I'd would say it is probably more than 75 but nowhere as high as 200+ .. thats bullshit

Pistone has irritated the hell out of me with that. There is no bounty on his head. I don't think there ever was. The LCN was never going to kill a federal agent. It would be nuts. The only guy Pistone needed to fear, was Lefty. He was really, really pissed of with him and a dangerous man.

Don't get me wrong: what Pistone did was very courageous. But he needs to drop the hat and the sunglasses.

I agree, Lefty has been dead since about 1994 and I cant see anyone wanting to clip an ex-FBI now because he caused the mob a heap of trouble 30 years ago.
All the guys he upset are dead or serving very long sentences

As for Demeo, yeah 200 was an over the top estimate but I can well believe the 75-100 figure.
Was the 75 "official" figure taking into account any side-Jobs Chris, Joey and Anthony may have done themselves without Roy?
These guys were so damn dangerous!

Even thirty years ago, Fat Tony Salerno told FBI agents nothing was going to happen to Pistone or his family.

IIRC, it included every murder/disappearance that could be plausibly linked with the crew members when it was still a crew, but it didn't include the members' later work for the Luccheses.

He looks like Vanilla ICE..

Gaspipe casso.he buried a guy alive.or maybe mad dog Sullivan.he dam near wiped out the irish for the genovese and thanks to that coonan took power

scarpa.hands down.during his 'prime'.guy was a fucking legend.

Pistone proved there wasn't a bounty on his head when he he visited popular Bonanno hangouts while shooting a documentary. He was called an "f'n rat" and he put on a nervous smile.

Anybody who's specialty was dismembering the corpse is up there on my list for sure.
Jimmy Coonan
Roy DeMeo
Tommy Pitera
also..
Tommy DeSimone
Anthony Casso
Jimmy Burke
Tony Spilotro
Frank/Nick Calabrese
Sam DeStefano

I always read that Eddie Lino was an extremely feared guy in the city during his time, but thats all. I don't recall any certain details like hits he did himself or anything like that, just simply that he was one of the most feared and thats supposedly one reason casso and amuso had the cops clip him,also because he was too savvy to get killed by the average hitter

Very interesting question , There's allot of different ways a gig can be brutal , For Example Amuso and Casso ordered hits on women and murdered there's own members in droves,As did Scarfo, Then you have guys who ran families prosperously for decades like Gambino or Profaci who over the course of thier reigns may have killed scores of people all in the name of keeping order, Then you just gave your all out Savages like The Mad Hatter,DeMeo,Sam DeStefano,etc who killed people in droves and is not limited to Italian American criminals, Roy DeMeo was alleged to have killed 200 people? Well in the 80's a Colombian women in Miami killed over 250

Exactly. I don't think anyone in Chicago could top DeMeo, probably, in terms of numbers.

But Spilotro and DeStefano have to be counted among the most cruel.

What they did to Action Jackson was unspeakable--though Gus Russo claims it was because Jackson raped a guy's wife, not because they thought he was a rat.

Spilotro also put some guy's head in a vice.

DeStefano once kidnapped a black guy and forced the guy to have sex with his (DeStafano's) wife.

And even Spilotro was said to be frightened of Frank Schweih.

the german,boot,mickey p,scarpa,the irishman,'greek',charlie c,gaspipe,spero,the two cops, and a lot more guys that most here wouldnt know.

Anyone see the pawnstars guy has a check signed by Carlo Gambino

Angelo Bruno

In some ways El Chapo really looks 'funny' ( I hope he doesn't read this thread lol )

My vote goes to DeMeo or Scarpa

Lets not forget Jimmy Burke who no doubt had a large body count to his name!

yes Angelo Bruno was probably one of the,if not THE most bloodthirsty mobsters in history

You can't forget Griselda Blanco, Il Madrina, the godmother of cocaine in Miami in the 80's. Far more ruthless and deadly than many mobsters,by a longshot

Precisely who I was referring too

Joe Sullivan

Harold Konisberg

Yeah, thirty years later after all those guys he put in the can are dead he has balls! If he wasnt concerned why the "nervous smile". He probably had fifty Cops there with him!

tony g would shoot him on the spot if he saw him!