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Chances are you've never heard of the craziest ones. They rarely make it near the top of the food chain. Craziest one I knew was a Lithuanian loan shark who worked for the Italians. He had a fierce reputation. Definition of bad mofo. Funny thing is, to meet him, he was a very charismatic and humorous guy. Until you got angry, then a switch flipped and you didn't want to be anywhere near him.
When I was a kid I met Richard Kuklinski. My father knew him, and a lot of other psychopaths. A mobster by the name of Steve Maltese lived a couple blocks down from me, he gunned down two detectives in my neighborhood diner because they were tailing him and he thought they were going to snuff him out in the diner. Or at least that was his story. The famous photo of mobster Carmine Galante shot dead with a cigar clenched in his teeth, happened just a few blocks away from where I lived. We had a mot of mobsters in our neighborhood growing up. Coffee shops everywhere. I knew one of the orchestrators of the Pizza Connection heroin ring. He owned a neighborhood bakery that was used a front.
But out of all of the crazy killers we knew, that Lithuanian dude was one of the baddest.
When I was a kid I met Richard Kuklinski. My father knew him, and a lot of other psychopaths. A mobster by the name of Steve Maltese lived a couple blocks down from me, he gunned down two detectives in my neighborhood diner because they were tailing him and he thought they were going to snuff him out in the diner. Or at least that was his story. The famous photo of mobster Carmine Galante shot dead with a cigar clenched in his teeth, happened just a few blocks away from where I lived. We had a mot of mobsters in our neighborhood growing up. Coffee shops everywhere. I knew one of the orchestrators of the Pizza Connection heroin ring. He owned a neighborhood bakery that was used a front.
But out of all of the crazy killers we knew, that Lithuanian dude was one of the baddest.
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