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This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. Gregory Scarpa, American Gangster M. 1950; diary 1973) children6; including Gregory Jr. Loyal Colombo crime family Conviction (a) Murder (1993) Sentence Life imprisonment Associate Linda Shiro (; his death) Gregory Scarpa (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) nicknamed the Grim Reaper and also the Mad Hatter. was an American caper and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and skilled assassin for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. The FBI suspects him of killing at least 100 people during his criminal career. He was sentenced to life in prison for three murders in 1993 and died on June 4, 1994. . He grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. As a child, living during the Great Depression, Scarpa helped his father deliver coal to New York. His older brother, Salvatore Scarpa, may have introduced Gregory to the Colombo crime family, which he reportedly joined in the 1950s. In the 1950s, Scarpa married Connie Forrest; She and Scarpa had a daughter and three sons, including Gregory Scarpa, Jr., who followed his father into the Colombo family and eventually became a capo. Scarpa and Forrest broke upThis ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. This ad has not yet loaded, but the continuation of your article is below. Gregory Scarpa, American gangster M. 1950; diary 1973) children6; including Gregory Jr. Allegiance Colombo crime family conviction (a) murder (1993) sentence life imprisonment Also the Mad Hatter was an American privateer, Colombo crime family hitman and FBI informant. During the 1970s and 1980s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and skilled assassin for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. The FBI suspects him of having killed at least 100 people during his criminal career. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for three murders in 1993 and died on June 4, 1994. Biography Scarpa was born to first-generation immigrant parents, Salvatore and Mary, from the small village of Lorenzaga in Motta di Livenza near Treviso, Italy. born. He grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. As a child living during the Great Depression, Scarpa helped his father ship coal to New York. His older brother, Salvatore Scarpa, may have introduced Gregory to the Colombo crime family, which he reportedly joined in the 1950s. In the 1950s, Scarpa married Connie Forrest; She and Scarpa had a daughter and three sons, including Gregory Scarpa Jr., who followed his father into the Colombo family and eventually became a capo. Scarpa and Forrest broke upScarpa also had a 30-year relationship with girlfriend Linda Shiro, which resulted in two children, Joseph and Linda. Scarpa was a stylish dresser who regularly carried around $5,000 in pocket money for shopping and bribes. He had an apartment in Sutton Place, Manhattan, and houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada, and Singer Island, Florida. His strength, cunning, and cruelty earned him the nickname The Grim Reaper and helped him avoid prosecution for many years. Shiro later said that Scarpa sometimes left the number 666, the biblical number of the beast, on his victims pagers. A career criminal, Scarpa eventually became a bonnet for the Colombo family, as well as the owner of the Wimpy Boys social club. Scarpa has been involved in illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, kidnapping, credit card fraud, robbery, theft of stocks and bonds, drugs, and murder. Many of the most senior members of the Colombo family in modern times have been members of Scarpas crew. In March 1962, Scarpa was arrested for armed robbery. To avoid prosecution, Scarpa agreed to work as an undercover informant for the FBI, beginning a 30-year relationship with the agency. Discovery of the bodies of Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner Main article: Murders of Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner According to Shiro and other sources, in the summer of 1964 Scarpa was hired by FBI agents in Mississippi to help them find missing civil rights activists. Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Michael Schwerner.7 The FBI was convinced that the three men had been killed, but were unable to find their bodies. The agents thought that Scarpie would be able to obtain this information from the suspects using illegal interrogation techniques not available to the agents. When Scarpa arrived in Mississippi, local agents allegedly provided him with a gun and money to pay for information. Scarpa and his agent allegedly beat and kidnapped TV salesman Lawrence Byrd.

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