See Photos. Barboza, Joseph "Joe", of Woburn, suddenly, February 20, 2016 at age 51, formerly of Cambridge. He also leaves 2 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, many nieces and nephews. [13] In summer 1970, Barboza murdered Clay Wilson. He was a hitman for the Mafia. Three years later, at the age of twenty, he led a prison break-out from the Concorde Reformatory of himself and six other inmates, the biggest in the prisons seventy-five year history. It was not the first time he had been involved with cooking and maritime ventures. Obituaries Rogers Funeral Home and Cremation Services is located at 380 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 Please call us at 617-876-8964 or contact us here. They seemingly lived an uneasy, but quiet life here, making causal acquaintances, of other residents in the building, but no close friends. Joe wasnt through though. and you'll be alerted when others do the same. [16], Ilario Zannino, chief enforcer of Gennaro Angiulo, was later overheard on a hidden bug saying that it was J. R. Russo who had assassinated Barboza. During their furlough of freedom they beat random people in the street, cruised the bars in Boston's Scollay Square, wandered to the neighborhoods of Lynn and Revere, and were finally apprehended at a subway station in East Boston. In 1932, at the age of only 10 years old, Joseph was alive when five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. The fact that he was helped on that journey with considerable assistance, by members of the premier law enforcement agency in the country, is something that perhaps even William Shakespeare might find hard to adapt into one of his many tragedies. On one occasion when he was planning to kill a target, he decided to set up an ambush at the victims home. On February 11, 1976, Barboza left Chalmas' San Francisco apartment; as he was walking to his car, he was hit by four shotgun blasts at close range. Prepare a personalized obituary for someone you loved.. Echovita offers a solidarity program that gives back the funds generated to families. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He was shot dead in San Francisco in 1976 after his whereabouts became known to Patriarca underboss Gennaro Angiulo. This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. Something, somewhere, went terribly wrong. In prison, Joe, desperate to collect owed monies to go towards his legal defence, had one of his associates demand the loan back. They enrolled him into the Marine Cooks and Stewards Training School, on Mark West Spring Road, in Sonoma County. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. The Dignity Memorial brand name is used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that include affiliates of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. In the 1960s it was also the home to clubs and bars that were often frequented by Bostons mob. One hit man in this area as a contract killer. In 1964, as the congressional report dryly puts it, Flemmi killed an FBI informant by stabbing him fifty times and then, in a surfeit of enthusiasm, shooting him. The FBI knew Jimmy The Bear was out of control. His Funeral Mas was celebrated on Thursday (4/23) in St. Dominics Church, Swansea. At the time it was funny. He killed often for pragmatic reasons-to remove an obstacle, fulfil a promise, earn a reward-but he also killed because it was convenient or simply because he did not care. Barboza and Frizzi pounded on the windows and then jumped up on the hood of this guys car, smashing at the windshield. Ed Cameron, an inspector in the Sonoma County District Attorneys office who worked the Clay Wilson murder, was outraged at the manipulation of the trial by the governments representatives. As neither of his parents were of Italian descent, membership into the mob was never on the cards for Joe. It's damn well unbelievable right up until today. I dont want you to touch anybody with your hands again, Tameleo shouted, Barboza sat brooding at the bar and then, suddenly leaned over and bit off part of the old mans ear. . ", "Yeah, Bentley, " my father replied. Barboza was moved to a bewildering variety of penal facilities in the short, forty-three months period he spent behind bars. Many of its members were ugly; many were mean and vicious and deadly killers. Joe Barbosa. Before the Italians dominated the crime scene in Beantown, there were the Boston Irish gangs. BY ANCESTRY.COM. ", "Jesus Christ, Daddy. It went on for years, before winding down towards the end of 1967. A prominent enforcer and contract killer in Boston's underworld, Barboza became a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant in 1967 and later entered the Witness Protection Program. And again, further testimony, still from Teresa: ..Thats why he was so dangerous. In 1968, Salemme arranged the car bombing of John Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing Patriarca mob informant Joseph Barboza. He was the former husband of Janice (Silva) Barboza. When Barboza eventually went into court, charged with first-degree murder, a crime then punishable by death in the state of California, on October 19th 1971, to say the trial was weird would be an understatement. Relatives and friends are invited. Joseph Barboza, 73, of Fall River, passed away Friday at home. His boxing record shows Joseph as winning eight out of the eleven matches, with five of them ending in knock outs. In the jail, Barboza insulted McCain, saying he wasn't so tough without his gun. It was more than likely that his career in the Mafia began in the crime family of Frank Iaconi, the head of the Worcester clan. It was another seventeen years before justice was served on the four men wrongly convicted and imprisoned because of the perjured testimony of Barboza in his Faustian pact with the government. Biographies are our place to remember and discover more about the people important to us. He was released due to lack of evidence. That November, while awaiting trial for his prison break, Barboza slugged a prison guard in the cafeteria for no reason. On Labour Day 1961, at a picnic near the New Hampshire border, McLaughlin, blind- drunk and belligerent, made a pass at a girlfriend of Andy Petricone, a close friend of McLeans. Following a search of the Olds which disclosed an M-1 Carbine, a .45 semi-automatic and a hunting knife, the four occupant-Barboza and three of his crew, Arthur C. Bratsos, Nicholas S. Femia and Patrick J. Fabiano-were arrested. Against All Odds: Oscar Goodman and the Jimmy Chagra Murder Trial, Drug trafficker Peter Shue on coke vs. heroin, doing 21 years, Suge, Alpo, Keith Sweat, Madonna & Mike Tyson, Inside Italy's biggest Mafia trial in decades. Friend After 50 days of testimony and deliberations, the jury returned a guilty verdict. Joseph Barboza was born on 02/21/1942 and is 80 years old. The local authorities believed there had been other unreported attempts. Average Age & Life Expectancy Joseph S Barboza lived 8 years longer than the average Barboza family member when he died at the age of 77. French was finally freed 34 years later. Joseph John Barboza, born April 13, 1932 in Fall River, MA, peacefully joined his wife of 58 years, Magdalen Louise (Botelho) in heaven on Dec 26, 2015. . amzn_assoc_title = "Joe Barboza"; Both French and Cassesso refused the offer and when French was threatened with the death penalty he responded by telling Rico to "warm up the electric chair". agent Rico had told Barboza that he should leave Massachusetts because the Mafia knew he was there and that two killers had been set up to get him. Friends can be as close as family. Patriarca had put in a long apprenticeship during the Prohibition period, getting his first criminal conviction at the age of seventeen, and three more times before he was twenty. He was held in a cell next to William Geraway. Joe came across as a wild, unhinged hot-rod, burning on all four tyres, revving in overdrive on all shifts. F. Lee Bailey was quoted as having said Barbozas death was no great loss to society. On the other hand, Barbozas young daughter never recovered from her fathers death. A killer for hire and a thug by nature and inclination, there seems at first glance, little about Barboza that justifies his importance in the history of the criminal underworld of America. // ]]>, Report an Issue | Under the washed-out and faded blue sky of eastern Massachusetts, light reflecting off the dingy gunmetal greys of the roads and the rusted reds of the bricked buildings of Boston, the dead piled up. amzn_assoc_rows = "1"; Joes father was a middle-weight boxer, who abandoned his wife and four children when Barboza was only twelve, perhaps an explanation as to why Barboza grew up with such a violent nature, however many women put up with his violent nature for their own financial independent gain, Barboza also pursued a career as an professional light heavyweight boxer, his first boxing match on April 18, 1949 against Rocky Lucero in El Paso, Texas and his last fight on September 23, 1961 against Don Bale in Boston, Massachusetts, its believed that Barboza won 8 out of 12 matches, 5 of them ending in knockouts during his boxing career. It's the same guy you brought to the house. A stump which was so big, it took three men from the sheriffs department to move! [2] His first boxing match on April 18, 1949 against Rocky Lucero in El Paso, Texas and his last fight on September 23, 1961 against Don Bale in Boston. Marshals, as a protected witness, giving testimony against the New England Mafia. Devoted husband of Nelia (Abreu) Barboza. Barboza aligned himself with the Winter Hill Gang in part because James "Buddy" McLean was an ally of Vincent Flemmi, who Barboza trusted along with his brother Stephen Flemmi. [citation needed] The crew was officially supervised for the Patriarca crime family by Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. Joseph Barboza also known as The Animal due to the fact he bit a mans ear during a bar brawl, was born 20th September 1932 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. They had Barboza testifying about fixing races. Barboza went into the club [searching for a member of the McLaughlin mob named Ray DiStasio] and caught DiStasio cold. A mob executioner? In his last seconds of life, Joe Barboza was heard screaming out: Was he cursing the men who were killing him, or maybe all the men he himself had killed over his short and brutal life? Joseph Barboza. He had a business to run. Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator. And that is what we will remember about Joe Barboza. There is a straight line from the feds protection of Joe Barboza in the 1960s to its infamous marriage with Whitey Bulger in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Are you kidding me? At approximately 3:40PM, Joe said goodbye to his friend, telling him he was going off to pick up a prescription at a pharmacy, and walked the few yards to Moraga Street where he had parked his car, a light blue, two-door 1969 Ford Thunderbird. An avid golfer, he also enjoyed bowling, fishing and playing cards. He smashed the fenders, the windows, everything. His body count was high, somewhere between seven and thirty or more, making him a suitable candidate for all of these descriptions. Copyright Thom L. Jones & Gangsters Inc. You need to be a member of Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org to add comments! The business officially opened in 1956. The van screamed away down the road, and was found abandoned five blocks away. One afternoon drinking in the bar at the Ebb Tide, some old Italian guy started to remonstrate with Joe about something, and he responded by hitting the man. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in Bratsoss black Cadillac abandoned in South Boston. And that was not all. The second against Angiulo and four other mobsters. I mean, this ONeil was a family manhe had nothing to do with the mob. Joe Barbosa. A Memorial Mass will be held on Thursday, January 23rd in the Chapel of the Holy Family Church at 2330 SE Mariposa Avenue, Port St. Lucie, FL, 34952 at 11:00 AM. 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