January 4, 1952 - Giuseppe Greco
Few figures in the annals of organized crime accumulated a body count as staggering as this Sicilian Mafia hitman, whose killing career unfolded during one of the bloodiest internal conflicts in Cosa Nostra's history. Operating out of Ciaculli and aligned with the Corleonesi faction during the Second Mafia War of the early 1980s, he became one of the primary instruments of that faction's brutal consolidation of power. His effectiveness lay not in rank or strategy but in sheer, sustained lethality — estimates of the killings attributed to him run into the dozens, placing him among the most prolific individual killers in the documented history of organized crime.
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Giuseppe Greco (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈɡrɛːko]; 4 January 1952 – September 1985) was an Italian hitman and high-ranking member of the Sicilian Mafia. A number of sources refer to him exclusively as Pino Greco, although Giuseppe was his Christian name; Pino is a frequent abbreviation of the name Giuseppe.
One of the most prolific killers in criminal history, he was affiliated with the Ciaculli mafia family. Despite his surname, he was not related to the boss of Ciaculli Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco nor to the boss of Croceverde-Giardini Michele Greco. His father was also a Mafioso nicknamed Scarpa (Italian for "shoe"), hence his nickname of Scarpuzzedda, or "little shoe".
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