Carlo and Manny reunited, along with Manny's niece, Eddie's daughter, Laura Garofalo. The two met in August 2006 after Carlo mentioned that one of his childhood friends, Manny Garofalo, had a brother, Eddie, who had been killed on orders of the Gambino underboss Salvatore Gravano, known as Sammy the Bull. Philip Carlo married Laura Garofalo in December 2009. His last book, The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters (which deals with his battle against ALS), was released posthumously in January 2011. His last three books were written with the help of Kelsey Osgood, a Columbia University graduate from Brooklyn, who took notes for him due to his ALS.

Universal Pictures optioned the book for Robert De Niro.

Dutton published it as Stolen Flower in 1986. Carlo was shocked to see children performing sex shows in shop windows. He got the idea while visiting Amsterdam. His second book was about an American child kidnapped and forced into the sex trade. The book received 125 rejection letters and was never published. He got the idea while hospitalized at Bellevue and a woman was murdered there. Ĭarlo's first book was about a killer in a hospital ward. Despite his illness, in early November 2009, Carlo was able to appear on Shovio's Talk Back TV, to take questions about his research. Although successful, Carlo walked away from the business after nine years with the goal of ultimately becoming a professional writer. At 19, he moved to Manhattan and secured a job as a real estate agent on the Upper West Side, Manhattan. The works of John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dickens, among others, helped Carlo out of Brooklyn. 22 caliber gun.Ĭarlo's passion for books ultimately steered him from the criminal path. At the age of 17, he was involved in a gang fight and shot in the forehead by a.

Moving toward induction into an organized crime mob family, Carlo found himself in trouble with the law. In 1964 when Carlo was 15 years old, he witnessed a close friend shot to death in broad daylight by hit men from the Colombo crime family.

Raised on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. From an early age, he was involved in gang activity. Philip Carlo was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. He died of the disease on November 8, 2010, at age 61. He was diagnosed in 2005 and reliant on a wheelchair with respirator, but retained his ability to speak and continued to write until his death. Carlo had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. Philip Carlo (Ap– November 8, 2010) was an American journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.

The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez.

The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters.

Night Stalker by Philip Carlo