What are the Mob's Greatest Hits on not members.

Wouldn't call them great but the kubecka Barstow murders the Mary Bari murder the Patricia cappozallo attempted murder the wrong Nicky guido murder , the Daniel seifert murders stand out for me

In the late 70's Nick (The Blade)Virgilio driven by Nicky Scarfo sr. drives the Blade to Helfants bar and restaurant in the hart of Atlantic City during a snow storm and the blade walks right in and blasts the judge .

For me the murder of JFK (for those who believe), the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975 are in the top of the list, then the murder of Danny Green, the murders of George Aronwald and police officers Carlo Antonino and Ralph Dols.

Also joe salerno and anthony fava the guy who built casso's house

All of Albert Anastasia's witness murders. And Hoffa.

Carmine Galante killing Carlo Tresca for Vito Genovese , and Albert Anastasis ordering the murder of Arnold Schuster blowing out his eyes for giving up Willie Sutton.

I believe, that would have to go to JFK.

what about that fat guy in the restaurant that got blown away by the westside in the late 80tys. some movie shit, he had a super hot chick eaten with him. bobby manna set it up.

worst could be that nicky guido guy, or the 2 trash guys or cassos house builder. they had a few amuso and casso. wonder if amuso sighned off on them all or casso snuck them. was amuso convicted on any of them?

Irwin (Fat Man) Schiff , also not Killed but Reporter Victor Reisel was blinded buy acid attack on orders of Johnny Dio.

That was fucked up, and pretty much against the rules (in America anyway). I've heard one version where Dio went off the reservation and ordered the acid attack himself, and that Tommy Lucchese went ballistic when he found out. But Dio was a cash machine, so he let it go. But who knows?

Why was Schiff hit anyway? Was he involved in crime and slipped in some way or was he a normal businessman who didn't want to pay protection?

how about the women, Janice drake sitting in a car, her head blown off. Estelle cary, burned alive by the Chicago outfit. Thelma todd a hollywod actress came in disfavor of lucky Luciano, and he clipped her.

gus greenbaums wife whose throat was slit, of course most of the women butchered, the Chicago outfit ordered the hits.

I think there was a case when the Colombos killed a nun (Veronica Zuraw) in 1982. Thomas Gioeli was alleged to be involved.

What about the beautician chick who Tommy De Simone was nailing?

And the two kids that were murdered by The Gemini Crew?

And the pornographer that De Meo whacked?

And Frederick Todaro?

And the kid that witnessed Gaggi & De Meo whacking the Eppolito's?

George Aronwald too.

A savage hit and clusterfuck. And people just kept getting killed when they became expendable. The Carinis got popped, then the guys who popped the Carinis got popped. All out of paranoia, and over trying to hit a Fed, which is supposed to be against the rules in the American Mafia. But that's neither here nor there.

yeah, moe you are right the brunette that desimone cut open. her name was I think Theresa fararra. and one of the girls the Gemini crew killed was named sherrie golden.

I think killing women is cowardly, and only the sickest dogs do it.

Really Binnie if you think about it, a hit on anyone is cowardly. It's not like it's hand to hand combat. Everything is on the sneak.

In mob lore, prolific hitmen are lauded as so masculine, even super masculine. But their profession is a cowardly one.

A prime example is how Vince Governara wupped Nino Gaggi in a man to man fight. Gaggi couldn't get revenge any other way except to try and blow the guy up. He failed at that, and so then he and DeMeo (a bigger coward) shoot the guy.

Not brave.

Of course Alfa, but you know mobsters aren't really known for being fair, or "fair" fighting. They're Machiavellian to the core.. they read The Prince and study it.
Plus, at the end of the day, life isn't fair... by that comparison American troops are pussies using nightvision when bombing or killing enemies armed with inferior technology.

I get what you mean though, but when the stakes are so high, there's no such thing as fair anymore.

Patrick Penny.

That's a good one to recall on the occasion folks want to recall what a 'stand up guy' etc Gaggi was. He was a verrry lucky piece of shit he wasn't killed by that off-duty cop after the Eppolito hits, for starters...

There's a great book to be written JUST about the Patrick Penny killing but I highly doubt it could be done; you'd have to find Penny's family, the D.A.s, possibly jurors, those two girls in the car with him in Brighton Beach the night of the hit... etc.

Still, there a lot of details, stories out there not covered in say "Murder Machine," "The Brotherhoods" and the various lesser books.

Veronicz Zeraw was a ** former ** nun btw but that was still awful of course.

Another, related topic would be innocents wounded in hits or, more rarely, attempted hits. You really have to go through the newspapers day by day in the 1970s/80s to get a sense of how crazy things were, good # of hits esp. on associates or those of unknown relations just came & went, unsolved, and if they're unrelated to anyone who later flipped... it's forgotten.

Anthony Fava.

http://articles.philly.com/1992-07-20/news/26027522_1_casso-dream-house-luchese

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/nyregion/11kruger.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I think I posted similar in the Canarsie thread but what the hell; madness nested in madness.

If we are including the Italian Mafia then the Anti mafia judge Giovanni Falcone would have to be number 1..

yeah Dominic raggucci was the vacuum salesmen demo whacked thinking he was a Cuban hit man

Matteo Speranza was killed in a case of mistaken identity in a Brooklyn bagel shop during the early 90's Colombo war.

The mistaken hit on two businessmen and wounding of two other Civilians at the Neopolitan Nooddle House in the early '70's during the Colombo wars.

Michael Cagnoni

I read about that one, that was a real slaughter, right in broad daylight, the killers got the wrong guys, and it really brought the heat down, which it should have.

But was it enough heat to get anyone convicted or did everything end "as usually"?