S20 Ep87: Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil: The Many Faces of a Mafia Killer w/ Jonathan Dyer
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
Goodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend.
When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime syndicate. And for 25 years he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of self-serving information accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing. During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days behind bars thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate Mafia insider. His standing as a prized informant freed him to engage in mayhem and murder knowing he had a virtual license to kill with reckless abandon.
Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is a deep dive that provides fresh insight into Scarpa's malignant personality. Dyer peels back the layers of myth and misdirection to paint as complete and accurate a picture as possible of a man who murdered his enemies and betrayed his friends, of a bigamist who loved only money, of a feared and reviled man whose destructive appetites knew no bounds.
On today's TCT, Jonathan Dyer sits down with us to talk about the complexities and dualities of the killer known as Greg Scarpa! Why did he treat he friends like family? His family like hired help? and why were his loyalties split down the middle between the Mafia and the FBI? How could a cold blooded, psychopathic killer still believe in doing the right thing?!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.6 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.7 | Got an exciting show today, folks. |
| 0:29.4 | Dumb Crime Stupid Criminals coming up in just a bit. |
| 0:31.7 | But first, I want to tell you about an absolutely wonderful book that I got to read over the weekend. |
| 0:37.8 | I know a lot of you out there are big fans of the mafioso of organized crime, |
| 0:42.9 | and today's book is no exception. |
| 0:45.7 | It is an absolutely wonderful book about a man by the name of Greg Scarpe. |
| 0:51.1 | You know, New York Mafioso and New York Mafioso of the 50, 60, 70s is one of those stories that I think calls endless stories of fascination, wonder. |
| 1:07.8 | It seems like you can get into those different families in the five boroughs and you can |
| 1:12.5 | you can bring stories forth that I think are hair raising spine tingling blood curdling and |
| 1:21.5 | there are some personalities there that are absolutely psychopathic sociopath, and our guest today has found one of them |
| 1:30.1 | that I know will, it'll peel your wig back, so to speak. |
| 1:36.3 | It is one of those that when I got done reading, I went, wow, human beings like this exist on this |
| 1:43.1 | planet. |
| 1:43.6 | Let me introduce you to our guests today, and we'll get into it. |
| 1:47.3 | We'll talk about Greg Scarpa today. |
| 1:49.6 | Jonathan Dyer practiced law for a decade after serving in the army as a Russian linguist |
| 1:54.7 | during the Cold War. |
| 1:55.9 | He switched careers in 1999 and for 21 years taught U.S. history, government, and criminal law. |
| 2:02.1 | He's been writing for 30 years. |
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