Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

Philip Carlo was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 18, 1949. He wrote novels and nonfiction accounts of serial killers and hit men including Stolen Flower, The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, and The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. He also wrote a memoir about his struggle against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) entitled The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters. He died from a combination of ALS and cancer on November 8, 2010 at the age of 61.