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Joseph Barboza

AKA:
The Animal
Birth Name:
Joseph Barboza Jr.
Birth Date:
September 20, 1932
Birth Place:
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Death Date:
February 11, 1976
Place of Death:
Corner of 25th and Moraga, San Francisco, California
Age:
43
Cause of Death:
Murdered - mob hit
Cemetery Name:
South Dartmouth Cemetery
Claim to Fame:
Crime and their Victims
Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most violent, psychopath degenerates in New England organized crime history. Barboza was a mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family of New England during the 1960s. A prominent enforcer and contract killer in Boston's underworld, he is credited with over 500 brutal beatings, 75 stabbings and 26 murders during the 1960s and early 70s. A man who profoundly enjoyed killing - and whose perjured testimony imprisoned multiple innocent men - Joseph 'The Animal' Barboza is one of the most notorious figures in all of organized crime.

The End of the Road

As of 1962 Barboza was now a bona fide Patriarca hitman and within a span of a few years, would kill over two dozen people, during what was an especially deadly time on the streets of Boston. But after a gun-related arrest in 1966, Barboza would quickly decided to reassess his place in the organization – after mob boss Raymond Patriarca failed to bail him out. When some of Barboza’s crime associates raised more than $80,000 toward it, Patriarca had three of them killed and their money taken. The boss also took over The Animal’s loanshark racket. Barboza heard of it all in jail. Poised to stay in the pen for the next five years, the Animal soon became a snitch for the Feds.

In what is now known as one of the most corrupt, misguided and greatest miscarriages of justice by the FBI, agents would go on to coach Barboza to falsely testify against six men for a murder of low-rent criminal Teddy Deegan. A murder that Barboza, along with Vincent “The Bear” Flemmi actually committed. The six men spent over 25 years in prison (two died during their incarceration) and were later awarded $102 million dollars by the federal government. In the meantime, Barboza was the first person to enter the witness protection program after the trail.

In 1976 word got back on the location of Barboza to Patriarcia underboss Gennero Angiulo through a south Boston contact that befriended Barboza. On February 11, 1976, Barboza left the contact’s San Francisco apartment and as he was walking to his car, a Ford van pulled up and the sliding door opened and Barboza was hit by four shotgun blasts at close range by mob associate J.R. Russo. Although he was armed with a Colt .38, Barboza never had a chance to draw it.

Shortly after Barboza’s 1976 death, his former attorney F. Lee Bailey said: “With all due respect for my former client, I don’t think society has suffered a great loss.”

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

South Dartmouth Cemetery

507 Elm Street

Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 02748

USA

North America

Map:

Map of South Dartmouth Cemetery, Dartmouth MA
Map of South Dartmouth Cemetery, Dartmouth MA

Grave Location:

Grave 514

Grave Location Description

There are several entrances to this cemetery. To make it easy, take the third entrance to the cemetery off Bush Street. Make a quick right and go to the end of the road and make a left. Count 9 memorials on your right and the flat, bronze marker against the stone wall is the grave of the notorious mobster and contract killer Joseph “The Animal” Barboza.

Grave Location GPS

41.59367262211726, -70.94658529804326

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