Who are some of the scariest Mafiosos--guys that even elicited fear from their fellow mobsters.

For example, the way very few, not even John Gotti, wanted to take on Roy DeMeo when the contract to kill DeMeo was being offered around?

Sammy DeStefano.
The very first made guy Auippa/Cerone killed after Paul Ricca died. Dyno was crazy and had no fear of anyone. He enjoyed killing people.

Ricca & Giancana had to stop him from killing Bill Roemer the F.B.I. Agent. He would have tortured him first.

He killed his own brother Mario DeStefano. He belonged to Ricca/Giancana (Taylor St).

Tony merra and tommy karate are two names that come to mind, they fit the profile of serial killers rather than that of a mobster.

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right on point..caso , scarfo.as add on's

I would say the Chicago guys during the Giancana and Aiuppa days. They had so many pyschotic torturers, I doubt anyone would want to take them on. Even Tony Spilotro thought Chuck Nicoletti was cold hearted for eating spaghetti while Billy McCarthy was getting his head crushed in a vice and his eyeballs popped out of his head. Mad Sam DeStefano used a carving knife to fillet one of his victims alive. The Action Jackson hit is legendary for the brutality.

Carmine Galante and Neil Dellacroce

John "Moose" Marrone. If you include nut jobs id say joe fulco, ronnie castellano. Fighters? Tommy R and Flash.

Skinny is Tommy R, Tommy Reynolds? Whose Flash?

Im a Boston kid but Ive read that Tommy R was very good with his hands

Delacroce was the scariest looking guy IMO, them eyes are just evil lol and his reputation of being a killer. Scary man.

Tommy R, i meant Riccardi. Senior not junior. Flash is a SI/BK legend. On the record with Watts. But u cant mention those guys without saying joe bilotti too. Bronx knows more about those guys... Lots of tough guys. I could name two hundred. Bodybuilders, martial arts guys, psychos.... About a quarter of them are (or will be) rats/doing life. If not killed.

But as far as scaring the shit out of a guy. Johnny Marrone. Dead eyes. looks like that mug of tino, except brown eyes. empty, kinda shell shocked look. I cant really explain it well. Im sure dellacroce had them too, as do most guys who've done a ton of work. look at james holmes mugshot too. same thing.

Thanks Skinny.

Ralph Salerno, i think from the NYPD organized crime unit years ago said the 2 guys who sent chills down his spine when he would look into their eyes were Carmine Galante and Neil Dellacroce.

Don't know if this is true or not but a NYPD went up and questioned Dellacroce and said when he looked Neil in the eyes his spine started to shiver, the officer was shook up by the encounter.

Don't know if there's any truth to it but its online.

hey skinny what is the story/ status on Marrone? Edison guy but a player in middlesex/monmouth county area? what crew is he in or is a capo? im assuming a genovese one... he was just released right?

Originally a newark or bergen co guy. A lot of those guys moved south. Workhorse of a guy. He was with Joe the indian polverino (sp) originally id say. That crew went to Sal Lombardi, i cant say for sure where he is today. If i had to guess id say under Palumbo or transfered to the old gerardo/dephillips/devita crew. Dont think hes very active now. Hes getting old, hes got legit money, but not a whole lot as i understand it. If hes got anything going its a little shy to guys he trusts.

Mad Sam Destefano everyone feared him

Vito Genovese in pics of him when he was younger because he looked like Frankenstein lol. In general i'd agree with Sam Destefano though. I'm pretty sure this topic has been done before btw.

there was a qoute by a cop or agent that looking at dellacroce was like peering into the eyes of the angel of death. i think it was in the book boss of bosses

frank schweihs and jimmy burke looked like mean guys.

DeStafano was just an associate, wasn't he?

Iceman999,
I think he was a associate but outfit experts on this site claim he was a made man.

What about Angelo "The Hook" Lapietra?" I don't think he was anywhere near DeStefano in terms of being crazy, but he was brutal, very brutal.

He was made

Thanks NickyEyes1

He and his brother Jimmy were very brutal. There is an old story out of Cicero of a lawyer who owed them a considerable amount of money. So they grabbed him off the streets and took him to the back of some pizza place or something in Cicero. They stripped him naked and tied him to the burning hot radiator and spent spent a day beating and torturing him. The lawyer was allowed to call his mother and when she appeared with the money owed plus interest, she was greeted to the sight of Jimmy urinating on her son. They were brutal guys...

I think that was Mad Sam. It was in Bill Roemer's book, unless the LaPietra brothers did the same thing

Tony Mirra
Gemini twins
Roy DeMeo
Tony "Roach" Rampino
Tommy Pitaro
Charles Carniglia
Gaspipe Casso
Not necessarily in that order

Why does it seem that anyone from Chicago are complete psychopaths, Destefano of course but than ,Fifi b, Giancana, Nicoletti, all of Taylor St., Lapitera brothers, , Turello,Spilotro, im probably forgetting a few, the common thing about these guys everyone seems to say is they were brutal and usually have torture stories amongst them. Than you got , Auippa, Lombardo,Calabrese who werent known as torturers but known to have killed alot of people and the Chicago Heights crew who are the least known but have been described as "rough", something must be in the pizza their