Roy DeMeo

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When did Roy DeMeo disappear? whatever when did he

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around that time right yeah maybe a little after i won maybe 85 maybe 87 maybe that might be well they over here in amityville they they inadvertently, because he lived over here by me.

And another five hours next week and it's...

Exactly.

We could have done two hours on Roy DeMeo and...

if we really wanted

Yeah, he, he...

I, I, you know, I understand he talks a lot about a guy, Roy DeMeo, who's infamous, like, probably one of the most infamous serial killers in history.

Nobody knows how many murders that guy has, 'cause it's so many, and he had the Gemini Lounge, and I, [laughs] going back in time, that is on, um...

What street was that? The, the...

Between the FBI and the NYPD, they kind of heard things, but no one ever looked into anything.

That was when the city was going through a fiscal crisis.

So this guy was on top of, uh, of the world there, Roy DeMeo.

He talks like him, and he s- mentions the Gemini twins and other guys that were just...

Um, and he would also write another Gotti book.

He would wr- write Murder Machine, which is a, a great book on Roy DeMeo and the, the Gemini crew.

Uh, he wrote a book about Little Al D'Arco, which is a quite a fascinating book about, you know, a guy who was a boss essentially and flipped.

Um, and he's even written the Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, which, you know, I think when we look at Jerry Capeci, he has been the preeminent kind of before YouTube, he's always been the mafia guy.

Yeah.

Who was the guy that you heard about that maybe had the most bodies? Um, for, for New York, it's either gonna be Grim Reaper or Roy DeMeo.

The Murder Machine, uh, his crew, they probably killed over, I don't know, about 50, 60.

Who knows? Something in that area.

A trial- At trial, an expert said the attack had satanic elements and also involved a phenomenon of collective aggression in which a group of people become emotionally aroused, and the end result is that they engage in some kind of violent, extremely violent activity.

Uh, the University of Tennessee groundskeeper," listen to this, "who found her remains testified at trial that he initially thought he'd come across an animal carcass before he saw the victim's clothes through the blood, according to court records." I mean, could you get anything more horrific than this? You know, it's almost like, you know, in my life, you look at Roy DeMeo, allegedly killed over 200 people, and what did he do? Threw the body in acid, carved up the bodies.

L- let me tell you something, people, murder is murder.

It's one thing to shoot somebody in the head.

There's no question about it.

You're getting a thrill out of this.

I believe Roy DeMeo got a thrill out of it.

Greg Scarpa, I can't get into, you know, uh, as great a detail as I can with DeMeo, but there's something sick about this.

They got it wrong.

It was Roy DeMeo at the time who was the underbought.

You know, Gotti was down in the ranks.

He wasn't up.

It was Roy DeMeo they were dealing with.

And he was the one that...

What's the actor's name that was...

Remember the movie with Donnie Brasco? Michael Madsen played him in Donnie Brasco.

But-

Have you ever, um, heard of Roy DeMeo?

No.

So Joey Diaz gave me this book called Murder Machine back in the day, and it's this guy, Roy DeMeo, who was, um, you know, some mob guy who, uh, just started killing people for w-whatever reason.

And they had an apartment upstairs above this, uh, this bar, and they would take people into the bar.

They'd take them upstairs to the apartment, kill them, and cut them up in the bathtub.

[laughs]

Like, I, I'm reading the book.

It was years before the real story came out, offered from two perspectives, the son who knew that his father was in trouble and someone who knew the gang that had killed him.

Currently, there are two primary sources for information about Roy DeMeo, Murder Machine and Albert DeMeo's For the Sins of My Father.

Each offers a significantly different perspective on the man reputed to be the Mafia's most cold-blooded killer, responsible for orchestrating possibly as many as 200 executions.

How does someone go from such a powerful and feared position in one of New York's prominent crime families to sharing the bloody trunk of his car with a broken chandelier? Roy Albert DiMaio was born in 1942 into a working-class Italian family in Brooklyn, New York.

Apprenticeships often occurred within the neighborhood gang.

You came into contact with it, you got assignments, and you proved yourself.

As an adolescent, Roy DeMeo might just as easily have learned some other trade.

His mother hoped he would become a doctor, but loan sharking proved to be easy money, made quickly, and he was good at it, partly because he had no qualms about using violence against someone who failed to pay on time.

It was years before the real story came out, offered from two perspectives, the son who knew that his father was in trouble and someone who knew the gang that had killed him.

Currently, there are two primary sources for information about Roy DeMeo, Murder Machine, and Albert DeMeo's For the Sins of My Father.

Each offers a significantly different perspective on the man reputed to be the Mafia's most cold-blooded killer, responsible for orchestrating possibly as many as 200 executions.

How does someone go from such a powerful and feared position in one of New York's prominent crime families to sharing the bloody trunk of his car with a broken chandelier? Roy Albert DiMeo was born in 1942 into a working-class Italian family in Brooklyn, New York.

Apprenticeships often occurred within the neighborhood gang.

You came into contact with it, you got assignments, and you proved yourself.

As an adolescent, Roy DeMeo might just as easily have learned some other trade His mother hoped he would become a doctor, but loan sharking proved to be easy money, made quickly, and he was good at it, partly because he had no qualms about using violence against someone who failed to pay on time.

He saw nothing wrong with the practice.