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navigation, search Joseph Barboza Born September 20, 1932 New
Bedford, Massachusetts, USA Died February 11, 1976 San
Francisco, California, USA  Joseph "The Animal" Barboza
(pronounced BAR-bow-sa) (September 20, 1932 – February 11, 1976)
was a Portuguese-American mafioso and one of the most feared mob
hitmen during the 1960s. He is reputed to have murdered at least
26 men in his lifetime, but that has not yet been proven.
Barboza, also known as "The Animal", "The Wild Thing", "Joseph
Donati", and "The Joe Valachi of New England", was born to
Portuguese-American emigrants from Lisbon, Portugal who settled
in the old whaling city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was
born on September 30, 1932, the son of a middle-weight boxer and
a mother who was a seamstress. Joseph's father was a constant
womanizer who eventually abandoned his wife and four children
when Joe was only twelve. He had one older brother who became a
minor criminal in New England, a