death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name
4 june 1994 rochester , minnesota , united states brooklyn , new york , united states 8 may 1928 scarpaa.jpg gregory scarpa
 gregory scarpa , sr.
gregory scarpa

gregory scarpa , sr. -lrb- may 8 , 1928 -- june 4 , 1994 -rrb- nicknamed the grim reaper and also the mad hatter , was an american capo for the colombo crime family and an informant for the fbi .
during the 1970s and 80s , scarpa was the chief enforcer for colombo boss carmine persico .
scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 50 murders from the early 1950s through 1992 .
