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Roy Albert DeMeo (/ d ə ˈ m eɪ oʊ /; September 7, 1940 [1] – January 10, 1983) was an American mobster in the Gambino crime family in New York City.He headed a group known as the "DeMeo crew", which consisted of approximately twenty associates involved in murder, car theft, drug dealing, prostitution and pornography. [2]
DeMeo, Albert (2003). For the sins of my father : a Mafia killer, his son, and the legacy of a mob life. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-1129-0. Mustain, Gene (1993). Murder machine : a true story of murder, madness, and the Mafia. New York: Onyx. ISBN 0-451-40387-8. Carlo, Philip (2009). Gaspipe : confessions of a Mafia boss. New ...
On January 20, 1983, DeMeo's body was found nearly frozen in the trunk of his car. DeMeo's killer was never identified, but law enforcement theorized that Castellano had him killed by either Gaggi or remaining DeMeo crew members. Shortly after DeMeo's murder, Montiglio returned to New York to collect an old loan shark debt and was arrested.
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
After a lifetime of secrecy, a decorated veteran came out as gay in his obituary. Col. Edward Thomas Ryan, who is said to have lived most of his life in Rennselaer, New York, was a brother, uncle ...
Heartbroken family members of the two 14-year-old boys who were killed by a drunk driver in a wrong-way drug-induced crash in Long Island blasted the man responsible for cutting their lives short ...
Joe Gallo was born in the Red Hook, Brooklyn, area of New York City.His parents were Umberto and Mary Gallo. A bootlegger during Prohibition, Umberto invested his earnings into a loan-sharking racket and did little to discourage his three sons from participating in local criminal activity.
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...