The Top 5 are: “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, Roy DeMeo, Joe “The Animal” Barboza and Giovanni Brusca. The richness of the stories, the amount of dependable research material and how the individuals fit into the greater context of their times mattered more to us than the number of victims they chalked up. Our selections are limited and the methodology subjective.
ROY DEMEO SERIES
In this third installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we focus on a particularly gruesome era in the 1970s and early ’80s in the Brooklyn and Long Island areas of New York. said after the sentencing, adding that DeMeo “engaged in wholesale murder.Roy DeMeo led a crew that committed as many as 200 murders for the Gambino crime family in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s. “The Roy DeMeo crew is the most violent crew ever prosecuted in federal court, as far as my knowledge,” Assistant U.S. He was taken off the board in December 1985 in front of Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan, paving the way for the Teflon Don, John Gotti. Mob boss Castellano wouldn’t last much longer. They left his corpse in the trunk of his 1983 Cadillac and parked it at a marina.Īfter members of the yacht club complained enough, cops came and found Demeo.
Roy Demeo barely had his coat off when Gaggi and other crew members pumped scores of bullets into his body, seven of them into his head.īut his minions didn’t make Demeo - one of the most psychopathic killers in mob history - disappear. There, he met with his mentor Nino Gaggi, now a Gambino capo. The 42-year-old Demeo was lured to a garage in Brooklyn that his gang had used. The beginning of the end came when an 18-year-old college student working as a vacuum-cleaner salesman was mistaken for a Cuban hitman by the increasingly paranoid Demeo who proceeded to shoot the kid. HANDOUT/ NYPD Photo by HANDOUT / NYPDīut the clock was ticking on Roy Demeo and his crew. Gambino boss Paul Castellano had had enough of Demeo. “Roy instructed me and Henry (Borelli), believe it or not, to go and buy some pizza.” “Roy said, ‘We have to cut them up,’” Vito Arena later testified. Turncoat Dominick Montiglio testified in court: “Somebody would wrap a towel around to stop the blood and somebody would stab him in the heart to stop the blood from pumping.” When the doomed arrived at the upstairs apartment - called the Horror Hotel - they were greeted by crew member Joseph “Dracula” Guglielmo. Years later, a heartbroken Demeo would have to park a bullet in Rosenberg’s skull at the behest of mob bosses. The first street hood to sign on was 16-year-old Chris Rosenberg, a neighbourhood dope dealer. He joined Gaggi in a loansharking racket and began building his own crew of car thieves. In 1966, he was recruited by Gambino talent spotter Anthony “Nino” Gaggi and the young butcher signed on. Gambino captain Anthony “Nino” Gaggi was a mentor. His older brother was killed in the Korean War. He was born in Brooklyn in 1940 to hard-working Italian immigrant parents. The mobster would eventually become too violent to live. The Gambino crime family soldier oversaw a bloodthirsty crew of killers that was eyed in as many as 200 gangland murders from the 1970s to the early 1980s.ĭemeo was a one-time butcher’s apprentice who found his true calling in the ranks of New York City’s underworld. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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