DeMeo's crew was soon rounded up and the core members Henry Borelli, Joseph Testa, and Anthony Senter were imprisoned for life after two trials that saw them convicted of a collective total of 25 murders, in addition to extortion, car theft and drug trafficking. The admitted year is 1935. By then the victim would be dead, at which point the body would be stripped of its clothing and dragged into the bathroom where it was left while the remaining blood drained out and/or congealed within the body. James Bennett April 29, 1981 65-year old Lucchese associate set to testify against DeMeo crew member Richard Mastrangelo, shot twice in the head by Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa. After being abducted, he was stabbed to death and then dismembered. In 1959 DeMeo graduated from James Madison High School with an accomplished loan shark business bringing in hundreds of dollars each week. Despite this warning, DeMeo's crew continued to sell large amounts of cocaine, marijuana, and a variety of narcotic pills, a violation many members of all Five Families continued to commit through the late 1970s and early 1980s due to the tremendous profits gained. He was shot, stabbed, beaten and sodomized by DeMeo, Joseph Guglielmo, Danny Grillo, Henry Borelli, Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa. Roy lured Byrum to a hotel under the pretenses of a business deal. His body was dismembered. 7067205, citing Saint John Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . Alter Names. he never missed birthdays, he came home every weekend and never missed sunday roast, he never shouted or punished his children as they were very well behaved, he encouraged his children to practice their talents, and he never cheated on his wife he was a strong family man. Likewise, testimony from Frederick DiNome and Vito Arena claims that Roy expressed regret at having to kill Chris and at times appeared depressed over it. They were both respectively the paternal uncle and cousin of the corrupt former New York City Police Department detective, Louis Eppolito. Previous to Albert's current city of Jacksonville Beach, FL, Albert Demeo lived in Alexandria VA and Annandale VA. A M Demeo, Albert M Demeo and Albert Demio are some of the alias or nicknames that Albert … Additionally, Castellano felt DeMeo was unpredictable and did not feel he could be controlled. It is around this time that an FBI bug in the home of Gambino family soldier Angelo Ruggiero picked up a conversation between Angelo and Gene Gotti, a brother of Capo John Gotti. /r/Mafia features stories, interviews, documentary and news articles about organized ... Roy Demeo And Albert Demeo Jr, because 38 murders doesn’t have to stop you from being a good dad. In the conversation, it is discussed that Paul Castellano had put out a hit on DeMeo, but was having difficulty finding someone willing to do the job. Through a family friend, personal items claimed to have once belonged to Roy DeMeo, including artifacts supposedly from the Gemini Lounge, have been continually sold on ebay from 2007 through 2010, with an accompanying notarized certificate of authenticity. Patrick Presenzano/Prisinzano March 23, 1978 31-year old Bonanno associate, son of Bonanno family capo Angelo Prisinzano (1908-1979), beaten, shot and killed then throat slit from ear to ear by Roy DeMeo, after refusing to return stolen jewellery from an associate of Roy DeMeo. As a teen, he began a small loansharking operation which turned into a full-time job by the age of 17. Albert DeMeo is one of them. The next member who was murdered by Roy and the crew was Chris Rosenberg, Roy's second-in-command within the group and reportedly his most loyal ally. Anthony Gaggi was not present. Roy DeMeo was the undisputed leader of the most feared killing squad since Murder Inc. The owner of Team Auto, Matthew Rega, also purchased stolen vehicles from the crew and sold them off at a New Jersey car lot that he owned. The first member of the crew was Chris Rosenberg, who met DeMeo in 1966 at the age of 16. A yacht owned by one of DeMeo's men was used on at least one occasion to dispose of bodies as well. Michael DiCarlo May 16, 1978 Lucchese associate, his death was ordered by a Lucchese capo for raping a young boy. According to Anthony Casso's 2008 biography, Roy DeMeo was killed at Patrick Testa's East Flatbush home by Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter following an agreement with Casso, who was given the contract by Gotti and DeCicco after they were unable to kill DeMeo during the fall of 1982. [17][18] You just haven't cooked it properly. The Casso biography notes that DeMeo was seated, about to receive coffee, when Testa and Senter opened fire. Growing up, Anthony Senterbecame close friends with Joseph Testa. In the Gambino Family, as most of the other Mafia Families in the country, drug dealing was an act punishable by death for any members caught being involved, owing to the stiffer sentences imposed for such crimes. The story of The DeMeo Crew and the Gemini Lounge was featured in the Factual Crime Book Houses Of Death by Gordon Kerr[3]. Other murders were committed for free, Roy describing them to crew members as "professional favors". With the exception of killings intended to send a message to any who would hinder their criminal activities, or murders that presented no other alternative, a set method of execution was established by Roy and crew to ensure that victims would be dispatched quickly and then made to disappear. It's a study in the half-truths that a wounded child learns to believe, and as such it is fascinating. He looked down on the street guys, such as Roy, who were involved in things like auto theft and hijacking. But despite learning at his father's knee to "shoot twice in the head; make sure they're dead; then slit their f-----g throats", he believed that his dad killed only reluctantly, under necessity. He and Roy DeMeo shot the two to death in Eppolito Jr.'s 1978 Ford Thunderbird en route to the Gemini Lounge on October 1, 1979. Fred Todaro February 19, 1979 60-year old Todaro was shot by Roy DeMeo and stabbed by Chris Rosenberg after his nephew hired the DeMeo crew to murder him due to dispute over the building in which they duplicated pornographic films. As the 1970s continued, Roy cultivated his followers into a crew experienced with the process of murdering and dismembering victims. He was first spotted by Gambino associate Nino Gaggi who tempted him into the family through loanshark projects. The Colombians had demanded that his murder make the papers otherwise they would not believe it had actually occurred. He tried to think of his father as a smart businessman, who functioned slightly outside the law - after all, he told himself, the law's just an arbitrary line. Roy joined the Boro of Brooklyn Credit Union that same year, gaining a position on the board of directors shortly afterward. The amount of pain and destruction living "the life" that Roy Demeo did is something very few book about organized crime ever touch on. The plan was quickly abandoned due to the presence of construction workers near the hotel room and the body was found shortly thereafter lying in the hotel's bathtub with its head halfway sawed off. Andrei Katz June 13, 1975 Kidnapped in Manhattan, taken to Pantry Pride Supermarket in Rockaway, Queens where he was stabbed to death and dismembered by DeMeo, Henry Borelli, Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa after Katz testified before a Grand Jury in May 1975. In the fall of 1976, the Gambino family went through a massive change when its boss Carlo Gambino died of natural causes. After leaving James Madison High School DeMeo married and fathered three children. Another forbidden subject between Roy and his boss Nino was narcotics. These characters, on the other hand, are what DeMeo wants them to be: sisters who never knew of their father's career and are unscathed by it, and most important, a good father, who was right to involve his son in the business at seven, to send him to brothels at 14 and to stage a fake execution as training. Roy Albert DeMeo was a New York mobster. Albert Demeo in the US . 37-year old Mandelino was accused of setting up Peter LaFroscia for robbery and 38-year old Martini had no involvement. Name Date Reason Gaggi would be charged with murder and the attempted murder of a police officer but through jury tampering was convicted only of assault and given a 5 to 15 year sentence in Federal Prison. The exact process of the Gemini Method, revealed by multiple crew members and associates who became government witness in the early 1980s, was as follows: typically, the victim would be lured through the side door of the Lounge, and into the apartment that made up the back portion of the building. In the latter half of 1975, Roy became a silent partner in a peep show/prostitution establishment in New Jersey after the owner of the business became unable to pay his loansharking debts. Eppolito met with Paul Castellano and accused DeMeo and Gaggi of drug dealing, which carried the penalty of death. One month later in July, Roy flew to Florida and murdered George Byrum, another man targeted for revenge by Nino Gaggi. An accomplice who helped bait Katz confessed her role and Joseph Testa and Henry Borelli were both arrested. Grillo, who was dismembered and disposed of like many of the crew's murder victims, was the first occurrence of intra-crew discipline. Through the late 1960s, DeMeo's organized crime prospects increased on two fronts. As law enforcement began to close in on the gang, DeMeo himself was murdered, probably by members of his own crew under orders from Paul Castellano. There, the trio waited until Governara left the game and approached his car, at which point Nino and Roy shot him several times. By 1978, Roy was heard bragging to associates that he had murdered 100 people. Charles Padnick, William Serrano & 2 Unnamed March 17, 1979 Shot and killed by Chris Rosenberg with Juan Matta-Ballesteros during 12-kilo cocaine deal, Rosenberg was shot in the head and arm; however, he survived. Ragucci was shot to death by Roy when his car became too damaged to continue driving. John Costello November 1977 20-year old Costello was shot to death by Peter LaFroscia and Roy DeMeo after concerns he would cooperate with law enforcement into an illegal hijacking involving the DeMeo crew. Despite this, Roy had already gained the attention of the IRS earlier in the year. Patrick Penny May 12, 1980 21-year old Patrick Penny was shot 9 times in the head by DeMeo and Richard DiNome after he testified against Nino Gaggi. It isn't. Gaggi's nephew Dominick Montiglio claimed that the subject was simply never mentioned between the two men after the initial confrontation, and as long as Roy continued to provide copiously for his boss the violation of his order was never addressed. Roy Albert DeMeo (/ d ə ˈ m eɪ oʊ /; September 7, 1940 – January 10, 1983) was an Italian-American mobster in the Gambino crime family of New York City.He headed the DeMeo crew, which became notorious for the large number of alleged murders they committed and for the grisly way they disposed of the bodies, which became known as "the Gemini Method". DeMeo graduated from James Madison High School in 1959. Months earlier, the Boro of Brooklyn Credit Union had been pushed into insolvency as a result of DeMeo and his colleague's plundering of its finances. This is a great book and the author, Albert Demeo tells a sad story that hits you in the gut and the heart. Rosenberg had set up a drug deal with a Cuban man living in Florida and then murdered him and his associates when they traveled to New York to complete the sale. John & Anthony Romano July 4, 1982 Shot and killed by DeMeo after believing the Romano brothers set-up DeMeo crew member Peter LaFroscia for robbery in 1978. It was also during this year that he put out word among not just the Gambino family but the other New York Cosa Nostra families as well that he and his crew were available for murder contracts. Before an indictment could be handed down against him however, he utilized false affidavits from businesses owned by friends and acquaintances claiming that he was on their payrolls as an employee. Paul Rothenberg July 29, 1973 Shot twice in the head in an alley in Flower Hill, New York by Nino Gaggi and DeMeo after suspected of cooperating with authorities. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Roy Albert DeMeo (7 Sep 1940–10 Jan 1983), Find a Grave Memorial no. Gambino soldier Anthony Gaggi took notice of DeMeo and told him that he could make even more money with his successful business, if he came to work directly for the Gambino family. Roy, convinced it was an assassin from the drug cartel, returned home and gathered his family. Some victims would be killed in other ways for varying reasons. Grillo, who had fallen into heavy debt with DeMeo, was killed after Roy and Nino Gaggi felt that he was becoming susceptible to police coercion to cooperate against the crew. Daniel Conti October 29, 1977 28-year old Conti was shot and killed by DeMeo and his brother-in-law Peter LaFroscia after concerns he would cooperate due to an investigation being opened into a failed hijacking attempt involving the DeMeo crew. He told his son Albert, whose 17th birthday was January 10, that his father was marked for … 3 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen Former butcher led demented hit squad that perfected method to eliminate victims. When questioned by his superiors as to the motive of killing a young woman, Roy claimed she was a risk and may have cooperated had the police pressured her. In July 1977 Roy and his men committed a double homicide, shooting to death Johnathan Quinn, a successful car thief suspected of cooperating with law enforcement, and Cherie Golden, Quinn's 19-year old girlfriend. Joseph Viggiano December 4, 1981 Shot, killed and dismembered on the 11th floor office of Show World Times Square, Manhattan by Gus Kalevas and Roy DeMeo, owed money to Kalevas. Mickey Spillane May 13, 1977 shot and killed by Danny Grillo and Roy DeMeo as a favour to James Coonan. The FBI had been surveilling the warehouse and some of the men unloading vehicles there and had shortly thereafter obtained a search warrant. Sometimes Albert goes by various nicknames including Alber V Demeo, Albert F Demeo and Albert V Demeo. Albert DeMeo was six when his father gave him his first gun. Roy, Nino, and Anthony Plate, a Gambino soldier operating out of Florida, originally planned to dismember the corpse in the hotel room and transport it out in suitcases. Jerome Hofaker June 1977 23-year old Hofaker was shot and killed by Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa for getting into a fight with Joey's brother Dennis Testa. Jamie Padnick March 19, 1979 Shot, killed and dismembered at the Gemini Lounge by DeMeo crew after he travelled to New York to investigate his father’s disappearance. DeMeo would murder the witness shortly after Gaggi's sentencing in March 1980. As a result Roy quit the Credit Union, avoiding law enforcement attention that increased as the Union was merged into another one. Scott Cafaro February-March 1979 Shot multiple times, DeMeo crew hired by rape victim's family to kill Cafaro. Anthony Gaggi was suspected by law enforcement officials of being the one who personally killed DeMeo, although it is likely crew members Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter were present as well. DeMeo graduated from James Madison High School in 1959. Roy also began dealing in pornography, including bestiality, which he sold to his New Jersey establishment as well as connections he had in Rhode Island. In the meantime, the murder of the college student had infuriated his superior Nino Gaggi, who ordered him again to kill Chris Rosenberg before there were any other innocent victims. A witness driving by right as the shots were fired within the parked car managed to alert a nearby police officer, who arrested Gaggi after a shootout between the two that left Gaggi with a bullet wound in his neck. Roy Albert DeMeo (September 7, 1942 – January 10, 1983) was an Italian-American mobster in the Gambino crime family. 118 votes, 46 comments. Reportedly distraught at the situation, Roy continued to look for more opportunities to bring in larger amounts of profit to his superiors. DeMeo always knew his father was in the Mafia. Core members of the crew included Chris Rosenberg, Henry Borelli, Anthony Senter, Joseph Testa and Frederick DiNome. Eleven years later, in 1983, the cops summoned him to identify his father's corpse, frozen solid after 10 days in the boot of a Cadillac, and shot seven times, an eyeball blown out from the socket. In 2003 however, new information was provided to the FBI by Bonanno underboss Salvatore Vitale, who claimed that in 1974 he was ordered to deliver the corpse of a man who had just been murdered to a garage in Queens so that it could be disposed of. Not only was I hazy as to concrete facts, but I could hardly separate the scores of characters, much less picture any of them. As 1979 continued Roy DeMeo began to expand his business activities, in particular his auto theft operation, which would soon become the largest in New York City's history.