The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter

The world called him a killer. She called him Dad . . .

An intimate look at the real-life killer played by Mark Wahlberg in the film "By Any Means"

"We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . ."

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually, she learned why: They were afraid of her father.

A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the "Grim Reaper." But to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father who played video games with her for hours. In riveting detail, she reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought.

Author: Linda Scarpa,Linda Rosencrance
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 08/04/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN13: 9780806545714
ISBN10: 0806545712
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Organized Crime
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Violence in Society

About the Author
Linda Scarpa is the daughter of the notorious Colombo hitman and FBI informant Gregory Scarpa, Sr. She starred in the two-part episode "Daddy's Girl" on Investigation Discovery's "I Married a Mobster." Her story has also been seen in the pages of Newsweek, The New York Post, The Daily Mail in the UK, The Star magazine and Men's Journal. She lives in the New York area.

Linda Rosencrance has 20 years' experience as a reporter, writing for The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald, as well as many community newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. The author of 6 true-crime books. she lives in the Boston area.