Greg Scarpa - Mobster

Greg Scarpa The Grim Reaper Documentary - Scarpa Colombo Crime Family Hitman Biography

Gregory Scarpa, Sr. 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.

Scarpa became a government informant during his years with the Colombo Crime Family. 

Scarpa was born on May 8, 1928 and passed away on  June 4, 1994 from AIDS related health issues in the Federal Medical Prison in MN.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and the go to hitman for Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed at least 80 plus murders from the early 1950s through the early 1990's. 

Many have said the Scarpa was a homicidal sociopath and due to his extreme violance and love for murder earned him the nickname "the Grim Reaper".

It was said that Scarpa would sometimes leave the numbers "666", the biblical Number of the Beast or the Devil, on his victims' pagers.

Scarpa is believed by the FBI and their sources to have murdered bwteen 100 to 120 people.