Candid Shots: Roy DeMeo Goes Hunting
These candid photographs of former Gambino capo Roy DeMeo , who operated a massive stolen-car ring and ran a crew that specialized in doing hits for hire, as well as for fun, tell their own story..... The photos were provided to me by a mob historian seeking to uncover Roy DeMeo 's FBI files. It was the crew's body disposal method -- dubbed the Gemini Method, after a bar Roy owned and used as his HQ -- that earned them the nickname "Murder Machine" from Jerry Capeci. The FBI suspect the crew murdered between 150 and 200 people in the 1970s and early '80s -- at least. Former Gambino capo Roy DeMeo has a word with someone standing off-camera... These photos prove quite chilling to those knowledgeable about Roy, a man whom John Gotti himself feared. The tough gangster destined for mob infamy actually turned down Gambino boss Paul Castellano's request that he and his Bergin crew whack DeMeo. "That guy has an army of killers," Gotti