Gerald Scarpelli
Gerald Hector Scarpelli (1938 - May 2, 1989) was an American
Early life
Born in Chicago, Scarpelli was the son of a baker on the Near West Side of the city. Scarpelli was arrested in 1960, the first of 18 arrests in his criminal record. In July 1965, Scarpelli pleaded guilty to armed robbery in Wisconsin and received a suspended sentence and probation. Thirty days later, Scarpelli was arrested for burglary in Illinois.[1]
A crew member for
Mob hitman
On March 11, 1979, Scarpelli participated in the murder of George Christofalos, the owner of a
On another occasion, Scarpelli participated with Michael Oliver in a raid on an adult bookstore in
In 1980, Scarpelli and three other mobsters murdered
Arrest and suicide
On July 31, 1988, Scarpelli was arrested by federal agents for a robbery in
On May 2, 1989, two days before a court ruling on his robbery charges, Gerald Scarpelli died after hanging himself in a shower stall at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Scarpelli allegedly killed himself because a judge had recently ruled against him regarding the Basile tapes.
References
- ^ U.S. Supreme Court - GAGNON v. SCARPELLI, 411 U.S. 778 (1973), Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]
- ^ a b c "The Not-so-Glamorous Career of Chicago Hitman Gerald Scarpelli Revealed" Archived 2006-07-16 at the Wayback Machine by Richard Lindberg IPSN Archives Spring 1994
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Organized Crime, U.S. G.P.O., 1988. [1]
External links
- It's Not the Godfather, or Even the Sopranos...Making Ends Meet as a Chicago Hit Man, the Gerry Scarpelli Story Archived 2010-03-26 at the Wayback Machine by Richard C. Lindberg
- DYS Revocation Manual