A Gallery Of Mob Funerals
A mobster’s family and his friends will spare no expense on his final day above ground. When Joe “the Boss” Masseria was gunned down in 1931, his casket cost $15,000:
In contrast, when Mad Dog Coll was rubbed out the following year in 1932 in a Manhattan phone booth, hardly anyone attended his funeral. Mad Dog was not well liked for he was a kidnapping-for-ransom and extortion thug. He also shot up a sidewalk full of children in 1931 while attempting to kill another gangster. This incident became known as the “Harlem Baby Massacre”. A dozen people showed up in the mud for Mad Dog’s burial. The writer casts it as a spooky scene, almost:
And here is the promised gallery – many a rogue’s final day on Earth:
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- Angelo Genna
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- Bazzano of Pittsburgh
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- Carlo Gambino – 1970s
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- Angelo Genna again
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- Colisimo’s funeral
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- Dago Frank’s last day
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- Frank Capone
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- Frankie Yale
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- Frankie Yale
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- Mobster funeral in Italy
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- Funeral of a Jewish mobster
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- Joe Aiello
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- Joey Gallo
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- Joey Gallo
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- John Gotti
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- John Gotti
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- John Gotti – waiting for his remains from prison
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- Lingle’s funeral
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- Lucky Luciano
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- Lucky Luciano
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- Lucky Luciano
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- Monk Eastman’s funeral
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- Monk Eastman again
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- Rocco Perri losing it at funeral of murdered girlfriend
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- Salvatore Calautti’s funeral
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