this is a story of missed opportunities of how New York's finest repeatedly failed to snare the mafia's most bloodthirsty killer Roy [Music] Deo but Henry Ford was to automobile industry Roy was to [Music] killing he streamlined it he organized it and he killed with efficiency in the 1970s Deo embarked unchecked on a murder spree when o killed you your body was not found his victims may have numbered as many as 200 people Roy de Mayo was as guilty as any serial killer not only did he kill them he cut their bodies up and defamed them in their Humanity forever people would be killed because they happen to accompany a Target if you looked up the word evil in the dictionary his picture would be that the big question is why didn't the police and the FBI stop Roy Deo sooner [Music] in 1975 detectives working for the New York organized crime Squad made a gruesome.
Discovery it was a quiet Sunday in Queens here in an Alleyway behind the pantu pride Meat Market the police discovered the remains of a young adult male stuffed in various garbage bags the victim was Andre Catz a smalltime criminal Andre Katz was a ctif a very very good cief and um he was supplying cars to uh Body and Fender places and he was supplying cars to use callets cats came from what was then a dangerous part of town the Kazi District of Brooklyn during the 1970s Kazi was the city's car crime epicenter it was Infamous for its body shops garages and SalvageYards back then many of the garages were so-called chop shops specializing in cannibalizing stolen cars for the parts but as the discovery of cats's body showed somebody had been chopping up more than just cars no one would realize then that this gruesome Discovery was the first clue in one of the most shocking crime sprees ever begun by one of the mafia's most bloody murderers Roy [Music] Deo Roy deo's life could have been very different his mother had wanted him to be a doctor an uncle was a big shot prosecutor another was a forensic scientist but Roy Deo never showed such promise after a start as a delivery boy and part-time Apprentice butcher he finally settled on a life of crime instead.  Roy was a father figure a mentor boss the gang used to hang out at a bar here on Flatlands Avenue Brooklyn today it is a church but at the time it was called The Gemini lounge and was the Deo gang's Clubhouse and base for operations Gemini Lounge was a a neighborhood Watering Hole wasn't a disco was a very quiet bar uh where a man coming home from work could go in for a drink the only exception to it was the fact that it was owned by Roy de Mayo from his base at the Gemini Lounge,   Roy Deo began to get a taste for this way of killing Ro de Mayo was probably one of the most vicious uncaring low life that I ever came across dismemberment was rarely used by the mafia but for Deo it now became his signature he had no respect for human life he had no respect for anybody except himself if you looked up the word evil in the dictionary his picture would be there Deo found that anyone could be made to disappear they would cut the body up dismember the body neatly wrap the body and the parts were placed in dumpsters the dumpsters were emptied and the contents taken to the immense Fountain Avenue dump in Brooklyn all of the garbage from Brooklyn and Queens went to that dump and the Fountain Avenue dump had a special area designated for meat byproducts and it had to be covered immediately with dirt then the bulldozers covered everything so if you dump something air you're not going to find it ever.  we had number of people have disappeared and we never found them here was a group of men that were murdering people and the bodies were never found today the dump has long since been filled in landscap there is little Clues to the number of bodies Deo sent [Music] there as well as using the dump the crew also disposed of their victims another way they dumped a lot of bodies in the Atlantic Ocean to they cut the bodies up put them in happy bags and dumped them off a boat out the middle of the ocean Deo became more and more skilled at his job he was getting so proficient that even the family boss Paul Castellano Came Calling for his Hitman.   to what you might see on television if blood is in pipes in a wall the blood will remain there forever and identifiable so we were able to do that we're able to match the blood with the victims and the criminals and the whole rou that's how we made our case this evidence led the team to deo's boss and Castellano henchman Nino gaji the case evolved into US versus gaji but Paul Castellano wasn't safe either he too was called to face a [Music] trial as the jury took a twoe recess at Christmas

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1985 Castellano headed out for a stake with a loyal associate [Music] he was cut down by unknown gunmen so it was a setup they bring him up there and they Whack Him as he's getting out of his car Paulie got whacked as a tribute to all of us and Walter because of the fact we put in all the killers all the top soldiers this enabled them to kill Paul with castalano gone in a final trial the remnants of the Deo crew and their cappo Nino gaji stood trial for the remaining murders including karif Andre Katz was not some case that was

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built overnight done in a week it was years of investigating talking to informers sending guys to Kuwait and with the hard work of Walter Mack in the end the worst killer the mafia ever produced left as his legacy not only a crime family in disarray but also something more [Music] chilling only a fraction of his murders had ever been [Music] solved the truth is we will never know the real number Roy bragged about 150 individuals and I would say we're somewhere between 150 to 200 is probably an accurate number I think Roy was extremely

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efficient and vicious in protecting his Turf we had people calling us you know about their daughter that disappeared who you know hang on at the bars or stuff like that you know and as to which we had no information as far as giving victims Justice that's kind of nebulous how can you ever accomplish that I'm of the school thinking that there is no such thing as closure for the families of victims Roy the Mayo was as guilty of Serial killing as any serial killer not only did he kill them he cut their bodies up and defamed them in their

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Humanity forever this was a vicious evil human being if you could call him a human being I wouldn't even call him [Applause] [Music] that in missing several vital opportunities to stop Deo the law enforcement machine must take its share of the blame but that same law enforcement machine did eventually come together yet the overriding question remains could it have done so sooner and found answers for the