Raymond W Ferritto was an American mobster from Erie, Pennsylvania.
37 Facts About Ray Ferritto
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Ray Ferritto served as an associate and hitman for the Cleveland and Los Angeles crime families.
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Raymond Ferritto was born Remo Ferretti on April 8,1929, in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Michael and Rose Ferritto.
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Ray Ferritto was the fourth of five children, and the second of three sons.
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Ray Ferritto attended Roosevelt Junior High school, where he befriended Armond "Peeps" Farranti and Tommy LaCastro.
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Ray Ferritto was 13 years old when he and Farranti ran away from home and burglarized a closed filling station in Ashtabula, Ohio, but were caught by police a few hours later.
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Ray Ferritto obtained a job at Urick Foundry when he was 14 years old after lying about his age.
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Ray Ferritto suffered severely broken toes in one foot after a work-accident, and his family filed a lawsuit.
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The suit was settled for $50 when the foundry discovered Ray Ferritto had lied about his age.
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Ray Ferritto was drafted into the United States Marine Corps about June 1946.
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Ray Ferritto was arrested, along with four other men, of attempting to rob a gas station in Erie, in August 1957.
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Ray Ferritto pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three to six years in state prison.
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In Warren, Ray Ferritto met Ronald "Ronnie the Crab" Carabbia and Anthony "Tony Dope" Delsanter.
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In 1958, at age twenty-nine, Ray Ferritto was arrested for burglary.
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Ray Ferritto pleaded guilty and served three years of a three- to five-year sentence.
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Once out, Ray Ferritto spent some time in the Cleveland area where he committed several burglaries with his childhood friends, Allie Calabrese and Pasquale "Butchie" Cisternino.
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Likewise, Ray Ferritto was trying to make a name for himself.
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Ray Ferritto never became an inducted, or "made", member of the Mafia, however.
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In 1969, Ray Ferritto booked a flight from Los Angeles to Erie.
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Ray Ferritto was driven to the airport by another burglar, originally from Cleveland.
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Ray Ferritto waited for a plane to take off, put a gun to the back of Julius Petro's head and fired a shot, killing him.
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Ray Ferritto opted for the "one-way ride" method of execution next.
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In 1971, Ray Ferritto was convicted of burglary, this time with explosives.
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Ray Ferritto was sentenced to fifteen years and incarcerated at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California.
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In 1974, Ray Ferritto was released from Chino, and returned to Erie.
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Ray Ferritto started booking again and worked for a vending company that was owned by a cousin.
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Finally, Cleveland family bosses Jack "Jack White" Licavoli and Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo contracted Ray Ferritto to assassinate Greene.
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Ray Ferritto took the sketch to her father, who in turn, took it to Andy Vanyo, head of the Cleveland police intelligence unit, who identified Ferritto from a police file.
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The search of Ray Ferritto's house turned up a copy of Cleveland Magazine with a picture of Greene in it.
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When Ray Ferritto learned that the Cleveland family wanted him dead, he became a government witness and testified against his co-defendants in the 1978 trial.
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Ray Ferritto admitted responsibility for the 1969 killing of Cleveland gangster Julius Anthony Petro.
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Ray Ferritto served less than four years in prison for both murders.
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Ray Ferritto left the witness protection program after one year and continued to stay in Pennsylvania.
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In 1992, Ray Ferritto was convicted of criminal conspiracy and bookmaking charges.
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Ray Ferritto was sentenced from six to 23-and-a-half months' imprisonment, three years on probation, and fined $10,500.
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Ray Ferritto died of congestive heart failure in Sarasota, Florida, on May 10,2004, at the age 75.
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Ray Ferritto married Bernetta DelleCurti in September 1957, and they had one child.