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  1. May 15, 2013 · 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. "His stake in mob lore in America is quite significant, "...

  2. Sep 14, 2015 · Joseph (the Animal) Barboza was a murderer for hire from New Bedford, Massachusetts, who came by his nickname after an altercation with a minor mafioso which he elected to settle with his teeth.

  3. Jul 23, 2014 · Psychopathic strongman Joseph “The Animal” Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty people for business and pleasure.

  4. Feb 14, 2023 · Still, certain criminals with deep connections to the Boston's Italian Mafia admitted to taking up arms. Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was an infamous Boston contract killer who aided the Winter Hill Gang, and many perished at the point of his gun, according to ''The Boston Mob Guide.”

  5. Feb 10, 2015 · 2.7K. 650K views 8 years ago. In this rare 1970 interview, Barboza talks about his life in the mob. Labelled as the Joe Valachi of New England, Barboza turned government witness in 1967 while...

  6. Joseph Barboza Jr., nicknamed "the Animal", was an American 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, Barboza became a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant in 1967 and later entered the Witness Protection Program.

  7. May 2, 2013 · The New Bedford, Mass.-raised Barboza, who was being hunted by mobsters for acting as a star witness against the Mafia in three high-profile trials, was killed Feb. 11, 1976, after leaving the...

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