The Castellano Hit Inside the Mob's Deadliest Decision.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On 19, December 16, 1985, Paul Castellano and Tommy Bellotti were murdered by John Gotti and Sammy Gravano and numerous other people who was a conspiracy of a group of people with a lot of power. |
| 0:21.6 | Again, Bino family that year. |
| 0:23.6 | And ultimately, John became boss. |
| 0:26.6 | Frankie DeChico became the other boss and Sammy became a captain. |
| 0:31.6 | And that did change a lot of things in organized crime. |
| 0:35.6 | You know, one of the things Tommy that just i want |
| 0:39.2 | everyone to know that's not familiar with this hit was there was a lot of shooters out on the |
| 0:45.6 | street i don't think there was seven there were four shooter there were four actors two on each |
| 0:52.7 | two on paul two on ball two on ball and i think there were four actor with two on each, two on Paul, two on Baladi. And I think there were |
| 0:56.4 | an additional, possibly four backup shooters. And I know Sammy was definitely a backup shooter. He |
| 1:02.8 | was driving and John Gotti was in a passenger seat. And there were people inside for this |
| 1:10.5 | supposed meeting |
| 1:11.9 | in case the shooting didn't go down, |
| 1:14.1 | so nobody caught on. |
| 1:16.3 | Frankie DeChico was definitely inside the Spock's restaurant |
| 1:20.9 | with a couple other captains. |
| 1:23.1 | And as soon as the shooting happened, they left. |
| 1:26.3 | But I think there were definitely four shooters that actually fired their guns. |
| 1:32.3 | And I think, I believe there was an additional four backup shooters and Sammy and John |
| 1:39.0 | in another car. |
| 1:41.4 | You know, Tommy, it's interesting to note that the mob, when they do a hit like that on the street, they work in a similar fashion as the police do. |
| 1:51.9 | Like an anti-crime, we tactically tack up when we're going to take down a car, say we're going to pull over a car, a stolen car, a car that just did a stick up. |
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