The So the story goes.

So the story goes. In 1983, Brooklyn, New York, young John Gotti, not quite the infamous leader of America's biggest crime syndicate just yet, was approached by the leaders of his crime syndicate in order to commit a hit on one of their own.

John Gotti allegedly refused, not out of any sense of loyalty toward the man he'd been instructed to kill, but because the man in question was simply just that dangerous.

But notoriously brutal Roy Albert de Mayo hadn't been born the man that he'd become. He came into the world

the fourth out of what would be five children to housewife Eleanor DeMayo and Antonio Joseph

DeMeo, the delivery man for laundry company. That hardly seems the likely familial background for

someone about to make history in a harsh and cruel way, but the

Brooklyn streets were about to become the learning grounds for a burgeoning crime lord. On the surface,

young Roy DeMayo was doing everything he could to get a safe and law-abiding start in life. He graduated

high school alongside other names that would be famous in the future, like Walter

Block and Bernie Sanders, and then he got a profession.

Roy found both work and an education in the butcher section of a local supermarket, where

he learned how to dismember and render animal carcasses and turn them into packaged meat

to sell at the counter. But hiding just below

that facade was the up-and-coming young criminal, firmly set on his ways to a life imbued with crime.

Roy had started on this path back when he was still a high schooler. He and a few others under his

wings set up a lone shark operation, and by the time Roy was about

to turn 20, he was already making a name for himself.

Nino, an associate and later Bigwig and the notorious Gambino crime family, noticed how well

Roy was running his operation and approached him with an offer.

There would be more money to have,

he told the young Roy DeMayo if Roy aligned himself with the Gambino's. This offer came to Roy

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