“Mad Sam” DeStefano THE MOST PSYCHOTIC MOBSTER EVER - Grave and Crime Locations Chicago Mafia Killer

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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. Chicago-based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, such as William F. Roemer Jr., considered DeStefano to be the worst torture-murderer in the history of the United States.
The Outfit used the mentally unstable and sadistic DeStefano for the torture-murders of Leo Foreman and Arthur Adler, the murder of DeStefano's younger brother, Michael DeStefano (an Outfit enforcer), and many others. At least one Outfit insider, Charles Crimaldi, claimed DeStefano was a devil worshipper.

By the early 1960s, DeStefano was a leading loan shark for the Outfit. DeStefano's loan shark victims included politicians, lawyers and small-time criminals; by the end of the decade, DeStefano was charging 20% to 25% a week in interest. DeStefano would accept very high-risk debtors, such as drug addicts or business men who had already defaulted on previous debts. The reason was simple: DeStefano enjoyed when debtors did not pay on time, since he could then bring them to the sound-proof torture chamber he had built in his basement. Other gangsters said the sadistic DeStefano would actually foam at the mouth while torturing his victims. From time to time, DeStefano would also kill debtors who owed him small sums just to scare other debtors into paying their bigger debts.

DeStefano would give his loan shark victims presents, such as a gold watch with his name engraved on the back, so that if he had to kill his victim and the police accused him he could use the watch as proof of how close he was to the victim and why he could never have killed him. He wore thick black rimmed glasses, making people believe he could not see without them, when in truth he could see everything that was going on and would take mental notes on how people operated.

In 1963, Mad Sam DeStefano, along with his brother Mario and mobsters Tony Spilotro and Chuckie Crimaldi, killed a man named Leo Foreman. Nearly a decade later, Crimaldi informed the FBI about the murder, and Spilotro and the DeStefano brothers were arrested.

In his typical, disturbed fashion, DeStefano made a fool of himself in the courtroom. He wore pajamas, arrived on a stretcher, spoke through a bullhorn, and even tried to represent himself. His brother and Spilotro knew they didn’t have a chance of avoiding prosecution with Mad Sam on their side — so they killed him.

In true mafia fashion, those closest to him set him up. Mario DeStefano and Tony Spilotro told DeStefano that they had located Chuck Crimaldi’s safe house and arranged to meet Mad Sam in the garage of his home to talk about it. According to The New York Times, the murder took place on April 14, 1973. The two men arrived at DeStefano’s house and walked toward the open garage, where Spilotro shot DeStefano at least twice and left him to die.

Sam “Mad Sam” DeStefano is interred at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.