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:
- Angelo Genna
- Bazzano of Pittsburgh
- Carlo Gambino – 1970s
- Angelo Genna again
- Colisimo’s funeral
- Dago Frank’s last day
- Frank Capone
- Frankie Yale
- Frankie Yale
- Mobster funeral in Italy
- Funeral of a Jewish mobster
- Joe Aiello
- Joey Gallo
- Joey Gallo
- John Gotti
- John Gotti
- John Gotti – waiting for his remains from prison
- Lingle’s funeral
- Lucky Luciano
- Lucky Luciano
- Lucky Luciano
- Monk Eastman’s funeral
- Monk Eastman again
- Rocco Perri losing it at funeral of murdered girlfriend
- Salvatore Calautti’s funeral
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