https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Scarpa

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Gregory Scarpa, Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) nicknamed The Grim Reaper and also The Mad Hatter, was an American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and a veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 80 murders from the early 1950s through 1992. Scarpa is believed by the FBI to have murdered 100 to 120 people.

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In the summer of 1964, according to Schiro and other sources, FBI field agents in Mississippi [8] recruited Scarpa to come to Mississippi to help them find missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. The FBI was convinced the three men had been murdered, but could not find their bodies. The agents thought that Scarpa, using illegal interrogation techniques not available to agents, might succeed at gaining this information from suspects. Once Scarpa arrived in Mississippi, local FBI agents allegedly provided him with a gun and money to pay for information.

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Fucking US gov....

That's one lucky, sick, son of a bitch.  And people like to talk about the good ol' days.

cannabinated said:

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In the summer of 1964, according to Schiro and other sources, FBI field agents in Mississippi [8] recruited Scarpa to come to Mississippi to help them find missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. The FBI was convinced the three men had been murdered, but could not find their bodies. The agents thought that Scarpa, using illegal interrogation techniques not available to agents, might succeed at gaining this information from suspects. Once Scarpa arrived in Mississippi, local FBI agents allegedly provided him with a gun and money to pay for information.

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Fucking US gov....

That's one lucky, sick, son of a bitch.  And people like to talk about the good ol' days.

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ReposadoXochipilli said:

There is the fear element where the victims appear to be regular type relatable people.

Where if the cartel has jose mow you down you probably had something shady going on.

There are often strange aspects to serial killers that people find entrancing.

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tdubz said:

I do think it is a little different because hitman kill people for a reason because they couldn't pay, got on someone else's turf, ect. A serial killer just kills anyone for no reason what so ever and enjoys that.

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