![]() By mistake, he killed a student cum door-to-door salesman named Dominick Ragucci. They would gain ten percent of all profits in exchange for taking up murder contracts for the Gambino family.Īround this time, DeMeo committed his most public murder. Gaggi was also promoted, which was an advantage for DeMeo.ĭeMeo formed an alliance with another gang known as the Westies, and after a turn of events, they agreed to become a de facto arm of the Gambino family. Paul Castellano was named the new boss, and Aniello Dellacroce became the underboss. In 1976, Carlo Gambino, the lead of the Gambino family, passed away due to natural causes. He teamed up with Danny Grillo, a hijacker who had just been released from prison, and began hijacking delivery trucks from the JFK Airport. His sources of income continued to increase as he also added an automobile firm named Team Auto Wholesalers to his loan shark business. He began dealing in narcotics as well though it was prohibited by the Gambino family. When Gaggi found out about these activities, he threatened him to stop. He also began dealing in illegal pornography which he sold to the various connections he had. The pieces would be then packed into cardboard boxes and dumped elsewhere.ĭuring the later half of 1975, DeMeo became a silent partner in a peep show cum prostitution establishment which was based in New Jersey. Then they would drag the body to the bathroom and later chop it into pieces. Most of the murders were committed at the Gemini Club, and his style of killing became known as the Gemini Method.Īccording to their modus operandi, one member would lure their victim to the club, after which the others would gang up on him and kill him by shooting and stabbing. He taught his followers the process of murdering and dismembering their victims to ensure that the victims were dispatched fast and were never found.ĭeMeo not only killed anyone who got in his way, but also started performing hits to earn money. He went on to kill more people in the ensuing years and his killing spree continued through the 1970s. Fearing that the proprietor would confess to the police, DeMeo called him for a meeting and shot him in a nearby alley. He and Gaggi were silent partners in a porno film lab, which was raided by the police. His first murder was allegedly committed in 1973 when he was 30. He used his position to launder the money earned through his criminal activities. His gang included men like Chris Rosenberg, Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski, Joseph Guglielmo, Henry Borelli, Anthony Senter, and Joey Testa.ĭeMeo also joined the Boro of Brooklyn Credit Union, where he found a position on the board of directors. Over the next few years, he continued his loansharking business and also led his own crew of young men. It was Gaggi who introduced Roy DeMeo to the Gambino family, after telling him that he would earn a lot more if he worked directly for them. DeMeo also had his own crew for drug trafficking and car thefts. Criminal CareerĪs a young man, Roy DeMeo became acquainted with criminal Anthony Gaggi who had associations with the Gambino crime family. He also became involved in criminal activities while running a legitimate business side by side. He started a small loansharking business at an early age. He completed his schooling from James Madison High School in 1959. Roy Albert DeMeo was born into a working-class Italian immigrant family on Septemin Bath Beach, Brooklyn. This biography profiles his childhood, family, personal life, criminal activities, etc Childhood & Early Life Famous Gangstersĭawood Ibrahim is a notorious Indian gangster and a designated terrorist. The story of DeMeo and his crew also appears in books such as ‘Murder Machine’ and ‘For the Sins of My Father’. DeMeo’s character appears in the 2012 film ‘The Iceman’ which was about the notorious killer Richard Kuklinski. His body was eventually found in Brooklyn in January 1983 he was assumed to have been killed by a member of the Gambino family. Thus, he joined them and soon gained considerable notoriety for his assassinations performed in the ‘Gemini Method’. He was approached by an associate of the Gambino family who told him that he could earn ever more if he worked directly for the Gambino Family. He initially operated a successful loansharking business before venturing into the world of crime. DeMeo is believed to have personally killed around 70 of them himself. Most of the victims’ bodies were dismembered and disposed of very thoroughly, which resulted in them never being found. He was a member of the Gambino crime family and was the leader of the DeMeo Crew, a gang suspected of killing around a hundred people in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
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