http://gangsterreport.com/the-nite-lite-...6-bloodletting/http://www.thesunchronicle.com/opinion/f...121a022e22.htmlhttp://gangsterreport.com/mafia-hit-list-top-new-england-mob-murders/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20021110/news/70328037http://gangsterreport.com/list-of-safe-c...rossed-the-mob/http://gangsterreport.com/the-patriarca-...franks-revenge/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20031202/news/312029977https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/body-count-rising-early-1990s-mark-silvermanMarch 1954 - Jimmy Bratsos was killed by Larry Zannino that buried him on his family’s farm in Stoughton, Massachusetts over the belief that Bratsos cooperated with police following surviving a previous attempt on his life three years earlier.
March 12, 1965 - Teddy Deegan – Probably the most infamous mob murder that actually took place in the Boston area, Deegan, a small-time hood that ripped off a mafia-backed bookie for $40,000, was found shot to death in a Chelsea, Massachusetts alley on March 12, 1965. Deegan’s slaying is historically significant more for its aftermath than the actual hit itself. After Joe The Animal Barboza flipped in 1967, he implicated fellow Boston mobsters Louie Greco, Peter (The Crazy Horse) Limone, Henry (The Referee) Tameleo and Joseph (Joe the Horse) Salvatti in killing Deegan, with Grecco being the shooter and the other three helping orchestrate the homicide. Thirty years after the four Mafiosi were convicted and sentenced to death (none carried out), they were all exonerated when it came out that Barboza had lied about their roles to protect himself and his buddy and fellow muscle-for-hire Vincent (Jimmy the Bear) Flemmi, the real culprits in the hit, and the FBI knew about it and covered it up. Tameleo, New England Godfather Raymond Patriarca’s consigliere and Greco, who wasn’t even in the state of Massachusetts at the time the murder occurred, died in prison prior to their exoneration. Limone, thought to be New England’s current reigning mob don, and Salvatti, were released and eventually, along with members of Tameleo’s and Greco’s families, were rewarded over 100 million dollars in punitive damages from the government.
The 1966 Nite Lite Café Murders - Ralph (Ralphie Chong) Lamattina helped his bosses in the Patriarca crime family kill two local rival racketeers inside his Nite Lite Café on the outskirts of the North End in the 1960s. Greek gangster Arthur (Tash) Bratsos and his bodyguard Thomas (Tommy D) De Prisco were lured to the Nite Lite Café and shot, stabbed and beaten on the night of November 15, 1966 after the pair had been extorting area businesses and Bratsos beefed with Ralphie Chong’s direct superior in the Patriarca clan, Larry Zannino, a mafia captain in the North End.
Tash Bratsos, 36, and Tommy De Prisco, 25, belonged to independent mobster and highly-feared frequent Patriarca syndicate hired-hand Joe (The Animal) Barboza’s crew. Bratsos looked after the crew’s loansharking affairs.
The Portuguese Barboza was locked up on a parole violation in the weeks before the hits at the Nite Lite Cafe when police caught him with a gun at a traffic stop, leaving members of his inner circle unprotected. Starting with Bratsos and De Prisco, they began being picked off. Joe the Animal soon joined Team USA and entered the Witness Protection Program.
The Marfeo Brothers Murders – A pair of insubordinate Providence bookmakers, both gangster brethren engaged in a bitter feud with New England mob boss Raymond Patriarca, costing them their lives. Willie Marfeo outright refused to pay tribute to Patriarca, cursed him and assaulted Patriarca’s consigliere, Henry (The Referee) Tameleo when he came to discuss the issue, which led to him being shot-gunned to death on July 13, 1966 in a phone booth at the Korner Kitchen Restaurant in the city’s famous Federal Hill neighborhood. Less than two years later, in the midst of trying to avenge his brother’s death, Rudy Marfeo and his buddy, Anthony Melei were killed inside a Providence grocery store on April 7, 1968 by Patriarca-dispensed hood John (Red) Kelley. Patriarca was convicted in connection with both slayings, although his conviction in the Rudy Marfeo-Anthony Melei hits were eventually overturned when it was discovered Kelly perjured himself at trial and the FBI knew about it and covered it up.
Early 1975 -The simmering feud between Marrapese’s Acorn Social Club crew and Callei’s own equally-powerful Federal Hill mob troop boiled over into violence in the early months of 1975 with the murder of Callei lieutenant Alfred (Keystone Al) Lepore. Big Johnny Chakouian and Little Frankie Martellucci were beefing with Lepore and when Lepore allegedly threatened to harm the 300-pound Chakouian’s wife and children, Chakouian and Martellucci killed him in retaliation.
March 14, 1975 - Richard “Dickie” Callei was dumped in a five-foot-deep grave.Two years earlier mobster-turned-snitch Vincent “Big Vinnie” Teresa had told authorities that, while Provi dence godfather Raymond L.S. Patriarca Sr. was serving a prison sentence for murder conspiracy, Callei was the most powerful crime figure in New England.Patriarca had been paroled on Jan. 9. And two months later Callei was, as gangster movies would put it, “taken for a ride.”
The killing had no doubt been planned. Judging from the snow found in the grave, authorities deduced that it had been dug hours before Callei's slaying.And the killer had made sure Callei was very, very dead.The 41-year-old mobster had been stabbed in the face, chest and abdomen, according to the late Dr. James Shamey, regional medical examiner.
He had been struck over the head with a blunt object; his skull was fractured in three places.And he was shot in the back five times at close range with a .38 caliber handgun.Twelve years went by before Frank L. “Bobo” Marrapese, who reputedly ran gambling and loan sharking operations in Providence, was charged with Callei's slaying.
February 11, 1976 - Joseph (Joe the Animal) Barboza – A famed and incredibly-feared hit man and enforcer for the New England mafia, Barboza was killed walking to his car outside his Bay Area apartment while in hiding in San Fransisco on February 11, 1976. It has been long-rumored that he was shot-gunned to death by Eastside Boston gangster Joseph (J.R.) Russo, dispatched from Massachusetts to clip the “cowboy” Portuguese strong arm who testified against his mob superiors – most notably crime family namesake, Raymond Patriarca – in court years earlier. Joe the Animal was the first person to ever enter the Federal Witness Protection Program and lived under another identity (Joe Donati) in California for several years, interspersed with a four-year prison sentence for a murder he committed in the Program, prior to being tracked down via an associate of his who contacted Patriarca underboss Jerry Angiulo and divulged Barboza’s whereabouts, setting him up for his pending slaughter.
The “Connecticut Capos Murders” – Legendary Genovese Family Connecticut captain Salvatore (Midge) Annunziato and longtime Connecticut-based Colombo captain Ralph (Whitey) Tropiano were both killed within the same year period between 1979 and 1980, victims of changing times in the East Coast underworld and the aspirations of complete statewide mafia dominance harbored by up-and-coming Patriarca Family mobster Billy Grasso: Annunziato, 61, disappeared on June 19, 1979, never to be seen again after getting into a car at his East Haven home chauffeured by his lieutenant Thomas (Tommy the Blonde) Vastano – clipped himself months later. The following year, on April 3, 1980, Tropiano, Grasso’s mentor, a former member of Murder Inc. and a suspect in taking part in literally dozens of murders in his lengthy gangland career, was slain by gunmen jumping out of a car on a corner in Brooklyn when the 67-year old underworld chieftain was crossing the street.
June 1981 - Angelo Patrizzi a small-time hoodlum whose body was found in the trunk of a stolen car in Lynn. Authorities said Patrizzi was murdered after he threatened to kill men he believed were connected to the fatal shooting of his brother in 1978.
August 24, 1982 -Ronnie McElroy a civilian was killed, According to Marrapese’s interview with Crimetown, it was Billy Ferle, not him, who beat Ronnie McElroy to death with an aluminum baseball bat in August 1982 after McElroy interrupted a drag race between the two wiseguys on Broadway in Providence and began hurling obscenities before attacking Marrapese and a friend of his named Bobby Walason. Marrapese and Walason – also a part of the recent Crimetown podcast, were found not guilty of McElroy’s murder at a 1988 trial.
June 16, 1989 – Unpopular and easily-unhinged crime family underboss William (Billy the Wild Man) Grasso, based out of Hartford, Connecticut and Raymond Patriarca Sr.’s former cellmate in prison, is shot to death inside a moving van by a hit team made up Genovese crime family assassins on-call from Western Massachusetts, his body dumped in a nearby riverbed. Grasso was Patriarca’s son and direct successor, Ray, Jr.’s primary muscle and protection in his weak five-year tenure at the helm of the New England mafia. Staunch Patriarca loyalist Cadillac Frank Salemme survived an assassination attempt the same day in suburban Boston, getting shot in the stomach, foot and knee as he exited his black-colored BMW in the parking lot of an International House of Pancakes. The attacks were coordinated by the Russo-Ferrara faction in an unsuccessful play to eliminate the younger Patriarca’s top two lieutenants and main backing in one fell swoop.
In the wake of Grasso’s murder and the shooting of Salemme, the Gambino crime family in New York ordered the violence to stop and for the two sides of the feud in the Patriarca Borgata to make peace. For a while, they do: Ray, Jr. abdicates the syndicate throne to Nicky Bianco, a mutually acceptable selection for both wings of the Family, Cadillac Frank becomes underboss and Russo is named consigliere. But when Bianco, Russo and Ferrara get locked up in a racketeering case and Salemme grabs control of the organization, tensions quickly boil over once again and relations between Cadillac Frank’s crew, spread out from Boston to Providence, and remnants of the Russo-Ferrara faction arising out of East Boston and the North End (Little Italy) sour fast. According to Massachusetts State Police informants, Salemme used the unrest to get even with those he deemed responsible for trying to kill him at the IHOP in the years prior.
August 16, 1991 – Russo and Ferrara loyalist and Fall River, Massachusetts bookie, Howard Ferrini, is beaten and stomped to death at his Berkley, Massachusetts home. Ferrini’s badly-battered corpse was found at Logan International Airport on August 21, stuffed into trunk of his midnight-blue colored Cadillac, his hands bound and a plastic bag placed over his head.*Early on in his regime, Salemme sought to expand outside of the Greater Boston area into cities like Fall River, Framingham, Lowell and Milford. Ferrini, 53, was linked to Fall River crime lord Timothy (Timmy the Bat) Mello and Salemme enforcer Gordon O’Brien.
September 24, 1991 – Vinnie Ferrara’s driver and close friend Robert (Bobby D) Donati, a longtime low-level mover-and-shaker in the Beantown underworld and jack-of-all-trades mobster, is beaten and stabbed to death at his Revere, Massachusetts home, his body like that of Ferrini’s five weeks earlier, found in the trunk of his own Cadillac automobile, hogtied and heavily battered.
*Donati,50, died one of the top suspects in the still-unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist (the daring 1990 armed robbery of the prestigious private museum in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood yielding a cool half-billion dollars in precious artwork. He was a paid informant for the state police too.
September 18, 1992 – Notorious Irish Patriarca crime family associate, enforcer and reputed hit man Kevin Hanrahan is killed after leaving a Providence, Rhode Island bar in Federal Hill (Little Italy) called The Arch, shot dead by two assailants on a street corner, waiting for what he had told people was his piece of a “big score.” Nobody has ever been arrested in the 39-year old Hanrahan’s murder and his homicide remains an open investigation with the Providence FBI today.
*Hanrahan worked for Cadillac Frank at the time he was slain, however was rumored to be freelancing, possibly drawing Salemme’s ire.
October 2, 1992 – Russo and Ferrara loyalist and North End restaurant owner Rocco Scali is shot in the back of the head as he sat in his car in the parking lot of a Dedham, Massachusetts International House of Pancakes.
December 8, 1992 – Russo and Ferrara loyalist Vinnie Arcieri is gunned down in the driveway of his Orient Heights, Massachusetts residence.*Arcieri had allegedly gotten into a verbal altercation with Salemme’s East Boston capo Mark Rossetti at Arcieri’s restaurant in the weeks preceding his murder.
Christopher Moscatiello Dead Boston Drug Dealing Key Associate
NE2-Penrod Lashod Dead Boston Refusal to Pay "Rent" Associate of Michael Romano, Sr.
May 10, 1993 – Boston nightclub owner and New England mob associate Stevie DiSarro is strangled to death inside the Salemme family home in upscale Sharon, Massachusetts by Cadillac Frank’s son and protégé Frank Salemme, Jr., as Cadillac Frank and his brother and capo John (Action Jack) Salemme watched on, according to an FBI informant. DiSarro’s remains were finally unearthed back in the spring on property in Providence owned by an associate of Salemme’s then-Rhode Island-stationed underboss Robert (Bobby the Cigar) DeLuca.
*The 43-year old DiSarro was partners with the Salemmes in a South Boston music venue-turned-strip joint called The Channel and was cooperating with the FBI and IRS in an investigation into Cadillac Frank’s affairs. Frank Salemme, Jr. died of AIDS-related cancer in 1995 at 37. DeLuca was arrested for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the DiSarro homicide in June. He entered the witness protection program five years ago and had been residing under a different identity in Florida,
*At his 1999 debriefing with the feds, Salemme lied and told investigators DiSarro was killed on orders of Nicky Bianco because of an unknown beef.
February 1994 – Seasoned Fall River racketeers Joseph (Joe the Animal) Savitch & Louis (Miami Beach Louie) Alexander vanish: their bodies are not discovered until three years later near hunting property Savitch owned in Maine.
*Authorities believe that the pair was either murdered by protégé-turned-rival Timmy Mello over internal Fall River business or by the Salemme mob regime (possibly with the help of Mello) for failing to get in line with Cadillac Frank’s expansion efforts.
March 31, 1994 – The very same night Devlin is killed in Massachusetts, Patriarca crime family members Ronnie Coppola & Pete Scarpellini are shot to death inside a Cranston, Rhode Island social club by fellow New England mobster Nino Cucinotta over insults at a card game
*Coppola had dined with Kevin Hanrahan the night he was murdered and believed by some FBI agents who investigated the Hanrahan homicide as the hit’s “set-up man.”
May 7, 1994 - Barry Kourmpates - Kourmpates, who drew the ire of the Patriarca’s Providence wing when he and two of his thief buddies began ripping off mob-backed businesses and mob-tied personal residences in the early 1990s and rebuffed requests for the return of certain stolen property and the forking over of a monthly tribute to the New England mob.
September 2, 1994 – Russo-Ferrara loyalist and renegade faction “junior member” Mike Romano, Jr. is slain, only months after his father Mike Romano, Sr,, a staunch ally of J.R. Russo and Bobby Carrozza’s and renegade faction higher up, had seemingly negotiated a peace treaty with the Salemme camp in a sit down at an East Boston tavern.
Oct 31 1994 – Salemme-crew wiseguy Joe Souza succumbs to bullets wounds incurred 11 days earlier in an attack pulled off as Souza spoke on the phone in an East Boston phone booth
*The Russo-Ferrara camp believed Souza was the triggerman in the Romano, Jr. slaying
Dec 11, 1994 – Salemme-faction drug dealer Paul Strazzula is killed in Revere, his body found in his car, which had been set ablaze.
*Cadillac Frank Salemme is federally indicted in January 1995. The bloodshed went on.
April 1, 1994 - Ronald (Rum-Shot Ronnie) Coppoland an underling of his named Peter Scarpellino were killed by Nino Cucinotta, a made man in the Patriarca borgata and driver and bodyguard for Patriarca, Jr., in the early hours of April 1, 1994 at the Hockey Fans Social Club in Cranston, Rhode Island (formerly the St. Mary’s Social Club). Coppola ran a card game there and Cucinotta took offense when Coppola had Scarpellino toss him out of the club for Coppola’s belief that Cucinotta was cheating. Cucinotta left the club for an hour before returning and shooting Coppola and Scarpellino at point-blank range as they sat playing poker.
Joseph "The Animal" Savitch Slain '94, Found in '98 killed by Gerard (the Frenchman) Ouimette, an highest-ranking mob associate.
Louis "Miami Louie" Alexander Slain '94, Found in '98 killed by Gerard (the Frenchman) Ouimette, an highest-ranking mob associate.
?? 1994- Joseph M. Medeiros was a Fall River insurance agent who, like Mr. Ferrini, was involved in this area’s gambling scene. He was shot to death at the boat ramp on Cook Pond in that city in 1994.
Nov 6, 1995 – Salemme-faction members Bobby Luisi, Sr., Roman Luisi (Bobby’s son), Antonio Sarro & Anthony Pelosi are gunned down in a Charlestown bar and grill in what came to be known in the Boston media as the 99 Restaurant & Pub Massacre.
September 19, 1995 - Gary Marcarelli,a low level associate and a gamblerwas killed during a gambling turf.
April 3, 1996 – Veteran Patriarca Family thug Richard (Vinnie the Pig) DeVincent is shot to death in Medford, Massachusetts after reportedly beefing with Salemme and his brother over street tax
*Vinnie the Pig had once been one of Jerry Angiulo’s loan sharks, bookies and go-to collectors. He came out of prison in the 1990s and allegedly bumped heads with the Salemmes
November 24, 1996 – Russo-Ferrara faction enforcer Robert (Bobby the Beast) Nogueira is shot to death in the parking lot of a Saugus hotel, riddled with more than 20 bullets in a late-night attack.Nogueira was Russo-Ferrara faction younger generation leader Vincent (Gigi) Marino’s bodyguard and main muscle. The same night and within minutes of Bobby the Beast being killed, Marino himself survives an assassination attempt in front of a Revere nightclub.
Cadillac Frank Salemme enters the witness protection program in 1999. When he was collared last week on the DiSarro case, he had been living in Atlanta, Georgia. Salemme pled guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to the DiSarro homicide investigation in 2008.
October 12, 1997-Charles Olivolo,an associate of Gigi Portalla's Crew.Suspected was George Lubell a fromer CO and drug dealer.
Mafia capo turned rat Robert Luisi, admitted the murder of Anthony DiPrizio, 39, whose frozen corpse was found in a snowbank Jan. 20, 1997.
2000
New England associate Paul Maiorano killed
2001
?? -Leonard "Lenny"Rosenberg associate,robbery gonr wrong.
December 13,2001-Peter DeVito - associate and Providence strip club owner,suspected killer was William Angelesco after found innocent
2002
New England associate Mark Eldridge killed
2004
New England associate Patrick Squillante killed.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/body-count-rising-early-1990s-mark-silvermanMark Rossetti, whom was suspected being responsible for the following killings while he participated as a TOP ECHELON FBI informant being protected by FBI agent: Michael J. Buckley
Vincent Arcieri, Shot to death on 12-8-1992; by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Robert Donati, throat slit, died on 9-24-1991; by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Michael P. Romano Jr., Shot to death on 9-1-1994; by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Rocco Scali, shot dead on 10-2-1992, by FBI informant Mark Rossetti;
Kevin Hanarahan, shot dead on 9-19-1992, by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Barry Lazzarini, shot dead by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Howard Ferrini, shot dead on 10-3-1991, by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Richard DeVincent; shot dead by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Anthony “Beansy” Deprizio, shot dead by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Mark Eldridge a FBI informant himself shot dead by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Stephen Tramarchi a FBI/DEA informant: given a drug over dose by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Charles Guarino, was given a heroin over dose by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
Louis Portalla, was given a heroin over dose by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
William “Wild Bill” Ierardi, , was given a heroin over dose by FBI informant: Mark Rossetti;
