The Gemini Method: Gambino Family Hitman Roy DeMeo

Orlando Camacho
8 min readSep 26, 2018

Roy DeMeo was a made-man in the Gambino Crime Family. DeMeo believed that if there was no body, then there was no crime. DeMeo and his crew perfected the Gemini Method. Anyone that doubled crossed him would be lured to the Gemini Lounge. Once inside the person would be led to the back of the bar where there was an apartment. DeMeo would jump out and shoot the person in the head with a silenced pistol, and immediately wrap the head with a towel. Another crew member would stab the person’s heart to get the body to stop pumping blood out of the wound. The body would be hung in the bathtub until all the blood drained from it. The body would be placed on plastic sheets, dismembered and sent out to the Fountain Avenue Dump in Brooklyn. Roy DeMeo would go on to run his own crew in the Gambino Crime Family. He answered to Gambino family soldier and Capo under boss Paul Castellano, Anthony “nino” Gaggi. Roy became a made-member of the Gambino family because he earned a lot of money for the mafia, and he would not hesitate to kill anyone. DeMeo ran a stolen car ring and shipped cars overseas to Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, this would be his downfall and become the reason that his body was discovered the trunk of his car on January 20, 1983.

Roy DeMeo was born on September 7, 1942 in Brooklyn New York. Roy DeMeo came from a poor family out of Bath Beach, Brooklyn in New York. As a young child he was often bullied by the other kids except when his older brother was around. A few years later his brother was killed in WWII, DeMeo then…

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