Joe (the Animal) Barboza, a mob hit man so vicious he “made Caligula look like a saint,” once tallied his violent crimes at 75 stabbings, 500 beatings and around 20 murders. Give or take a few ...

The last man Joe Barboza killed — the last one anyone knows about, anyway — was Clay Wilson, a skinny crook who drove a bulldozer when he wasn’t stealing things from people. It was Wilson ...

It's a story that's soon to become a major motion picture. Joe "the Animal" Barboza was a famous and feared. The nickname originated after Barboza chewed off a man's cheek in a fit of rage.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- In Santa Rosa, Calif., during the summer of 1970, Joe "The Animal" Barboza murdered small-time thug Clay Wilson, while under the protection of the federal witness ...

Three days before Valentine’s Day, 1976, seemed like any other on the corner of 25th and Moraga. Along that stretch of San Francisco’s Outer Sunset, lined with squat pastel rowhouses, a man ...

These rare 1966 photographs of notorious underworld hit man Joe Barboza were taken by Kevin Cole, the former chief photographer of the Boston Herald. Barboza, who despised newspaper photographers ...

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 last man Joe Barboza killed -- the last one anyone knows about, anyway -- was Clay Wilson, a skinny crook who drove a bulldozer when he wasn't stealing things from people. It was Wilson's misfo… ...