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Joseph Barboza Jr. (/ b ɑːr ˈ b oʊ z ə /; [1] September 20, 1932 – February 11, 1976), nicknamed "the Animal", was an American mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family of New England during the 1960s.
- Trapping ‘The Animal’
- Sadistic Enforcer
- Miscarriage of Justice
Based on his years as a crazed hitman, street loan collector and intimidator for Raymond Patriarca’s New England Mafia, Joe “The Animal” Barboza should have recognized he might have been set up. Add to that the fact he’d been an FBI informant and trial witness years earlier and the first person admitted into the federal Witness Protection Program. ...
As an intimidator, Barboza won the nickname “The Animal” for the viciousness he displayed on the street to collect late loan payments. He once chewed off part of a man’s cheek and spit it out during a fight and gnawed on a piece of a man’s skull that blew off when he shot him. In a 1970 television interview, Barboza said: “I’d stab guys after 14 we...
But few knew back then just what had to happen for it all to come about. While naming names for Massachusetts prosecutors, Barboza had been a willing pawn in one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated by the FBI, with the full knowledge of then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In a separate murder case, he lied under oath, at th...
At thirteen years old, Barboza was arrested for breaking and entering and found himself behind bars for the first of many times in his life. It was during the infamous McLean/McLaughlin war that...
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Jul 23, 2014 · On September 20, 1932, was born the infant destined to mutate into “one of the worst men on the face of the earth.” Joseph Barboza Jr. spent his first years in the small coastal city of New Bedford. This once-legendary former whaling port nestled on a North Atlantic peninsula.
Oct 29, 2023 · How the first man in witness protection was hunted down in San Francisco. Joseph Barboza, a tough-talking former Mafia enforcer, testifying before the House crime committee in 1972. Three days...
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May 15, 2013 · Barboza killed a man in Santa Rosa and, at trial, his true identity came out. After serving five years in prison, Barboza moved to San Francisco and lived in an apartment near Ocean Beach.
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New England Mafia. The legendary encounter with a Patriarca crime family underboss at an East Boston bar in 1958, after Barboza was paroled from prison, that really got him noticed. It also earned him the nickname “The Animal.”
