North End Murders- JOSEPH “THE ANIMAL” BARBOZA (BARON), 43

The FBI and others overestimate Barboza’s murders. The Mob Museum did a list of the five most notorious mob hitmen. Barboza was listed as number 4. The top five are “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn; Abe “Kid Twist” Retes, Roy DeMeo, Joe “The Animal” Barboza, and Giovanni Brusca. But none of what these hitmen did compared to the New York Mafia gangsters like Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso who pleaded guilty to 14 mob murders and infamously made a deal with NYPD detective partners Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa to pass information about mob rats to the crime family in exchange for a monthly $4,000 salary. The cops also moonlighted as hitmen for the Lucchese family, and were sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for being involved in a total of eight mob hits themselves. Considered one of the most violent bosses of the city’s five crime families, Casso is believed to have slain at least 36 people. <a href="https://medium.com/@mattatty/north-end-murders-joseph-the-animal-barboza-baron-43-1ea82bdc0055">Website</a>