Grim Reaper: Scarpa, who was arrested for murder and racketeering in 1992, died in 1994 from Aids
As the wife of Greg Scarpa, the notorious mob boss, ‘Big Linda’ Schiro spent much of her life living in the lap of luxury.
But the ‘gentle and generous’ husband, who she married when she was just 17, was one of the most feared hitmen in New York’s organised crime network, named the Grim Reaper by his peers.
Now 65, she reveals in a new interview how the late Scarpa left her lonely and broke, her rented Staten Island condo a far cry from the palatial Brooklyn home they shared.
The pair, who appear on the new Investigation Discovery series I Married A Mobster, told how their world began crumbling around in the early Nineties, during the brutal Colombo mob war which Scarpa was central to.
The warfare was so violent that the family were regularly under threat themselves.
‘Putting his family in danger was the beginning of him just going off,’ Little Linda said. She revealed how her brother, Joey, was even shot in the eye in one horrible incident.
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