Samuel "Mad Sam" DeStefano (September 13, 1909 − April 14, 1973) was an American mobster who was associated with the Chicago Outfit. He was one of the organization's most notorious loan sharks and sociopathic killers.

Nov 13, 2022 · Mad Sam took him to the restaurant his brother, Mario DeStefano, owned. There, he stripped Cappelletti naked, handcuffed him to a hot radiator, and beat and tortured him for three days. At the end of the three days, Mad Sam invited Cappelletti’s family, friends, and colleagues to the restaurant for a nice dinner in Cappelletti’s honor.

Oct 14, 2009 · In the basement, DeStefano, his brother, and collectors Charles Crimaldi and Sam Gallo stripped Cappelletti and handcuffed him to a hot radiator. Over the next 75 hours Cappelletti was brutally kicked and beaten.

May 17, 1999 · Mario, in front, suddenly stepped aside and Spilotro fired two blasts from a shotgun. The first hit Sam in the left arm nearly severing it. The second blast hit him square in the chest. The devil worshipping, clown prince, and mad hatter of the Chicago underworld was killed instantly, a fate so many of his victims had been denied.

Suddenly Sam appeared, dressed in pajamas, and went right over to Foreman. Grabbing Foreman’s face, he cursed at him and told him he was going to be a blood sacrifice to Satan. After being viciously tortured, Foreman mercifully died.

Samuele "Mad Sam" DeStefano (September 13, 1909 & mdash; April 14, 1973) was an American gangster who became one of the Chicago Outfit ' s most notorious loan sharks and sociopathic killers. Chicago - based FBI agents such as William F. Roemer, Jr. considered DeStefano to be the worst torture - murderer in the history of the United States.

Mar 19, 2017 · Not all of mad Sam’s victims were killed. He liked to humiliate his victims. Peter Cappelletti, a collector for DeStefano, fled Chicago with $25,000 from a loan shark victim. DeStefano’s men located Cappelletti in Wisconsin and brought him back to Chicago.

Aug 29, 2023 · Sam DeStefano was a notorious loan shark and murderer who terrorized Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. He was associated with the Chicago Outfit, a powerful organized crime syndicate that dominated...

Dec 8, 2024 · In the 1960s, Samuel “Mad Sam” DeStefano was one of the most vicious loan sharks in Chicago. He worked closely with the mob, brutally torturing anyone who failed to pay him back on time. However, DeStefano was never an official mob member himself — because he was too unhinged even for America’s most vicious gangsters.

Nov 27, 2024 · Mad Sam DeStefano may have been laid to rest, but his legacy as one of the most sadistic enforcers in Mafia history lives on, reminding us of the darkest corners of human nature and the lengths to which some will go to maintain power and control.