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.