In the lore of love, there is somebody for everybody, even a homicidal psychopath such as Gregory Scarpa. Actually, like many thugs, Scarpa had two somebodies. One was his wife, Connie, whom he ...
WHEN Joe “Olive Oil King” Profaci ran the Brooklyn mob, he would hold court on the steps of his church. By the time Greg “The Grim Reaper” Scarpa was running a crew in Brooklyn, they would leave ...
Book 'Em is an exciting new feature on Crimesider. Every week we interview a top true-crime author to get the story behind their story. For our first week, we spoke with journalist and bestselling ...
Mob killer Greg Scarpa Sr. broke one of the Mafia’s major rules by blabbing about his bloody business in front of his girlfriend, a former Colombo crime family gangster testified Thursday. Carmine ...
Sylvester Stallone has played heroes such as John Rambo and Rocky Balboa, but now he’s considering playing a villain — Greg Scarpa, the mob hitman known as “the Grim Reaper.” The screenplay by Nick ...
Director Antoine Fuqua, of films like Training Day and Shooter, talked with ComingSoon after the Sundance premiere of his latest film, Brooklyn's Finest, about another project in the very early stages ...
NEW YORK It is an Eyewitness News Investigators' exclusive. We were able to obtain an advance copy of the motion filed in Mississippi. The question is, should a former KKK member be freed from prison ...
Gregory Scarpa, known as “Grim Reaper,” was the most feared gangland enforcer in New York and executioner for one side of an internal war in the Colombo crime family. But the enemy knew where his ...
NEW YORK — The FBI used mob muscle to solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil- rights volunteers in Mississippi, a gangster’s ex-girlfriend testified Monday, becoming the first witness to repeat ...
After years in development at Millennium Films, Sylvester Stallone‘s hitman movie “Scarpa” is finally moving forward, as director Brad Furman has hopped aboard the long-gestating project, TheWrap has ...
The career mob moll who is the star witness against alleged rogue FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio didn’t say a peep when her gangster boyfriend decided to kill their son’s best friend, she testified ...
Supreme Court For the Plaintiff: Kings County District Attorney Michael Vecchione, Esq. Friedrich Nietzsche sagely observed at the end of the 19th Century “that he who fights with monsters might take ...