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By Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson for Gangsters Inc.

NEW YORK POLICE DETECTIVE Ralph Salerno was on the job for decades, working the rackets, and he’d seen his share of the underworld. Some of it seemed just like everything else, guys trying to get over, maybe just the other side of the street.

And then again some of it was sick.

Evil.

Salerno considered himself an expert on mobsters.

He’d known dozens of them, he said. Knew them A to Z. But Salerno had only met two gangsters personally who, when he looked them in the eye, he decided he wouldn’t want them to be mad at him.

Aniello Dellacroce (left) of the Gambinos was one.

Carmine Galante, a Bonanno through and through, was the other.

“They had bad eyes.

I mean they had the eyes of killers.

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You could see how frightening they were, the frigid glare of a killer,” Salerno said.

Organized crime is known for its nasty fucks, but no fuck was nastier than Carmine “Lilo” Galante. “Lilo” means “cigar” in Castellammare.

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