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==Early years==

Samuel DeStefano Jr. was born in [[Streator, Illinois]], into the [[Italian American|Italian-American]] family of Samuel DeStefano Sr. and Rosalie DeStefano (née Brasco), both of whom had been born in [[Italy]] and had immigrated to the United States in 1903. DeStefanoDestefano Sr. was a laborer and, later on in life, a grocer and real estate salesman who died of natural causes in 1942, at age 74. Rosalie was a housewife, who throughout her life was supported by the contributions of her children. She died in October 1960. In all, the DeStefanos had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Not long after his birth, Sam DeStefano and his family moved to [[Herrin, Illinois]], where his father worked in the local coal mine. After the labor-related turmoil surrounding the [[Herrin Massacre]], the DeStefano family moved north to Chicago's [[Little Italy, Chicago|Little Italy]]. {{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

One of the earliest reports on DeStefano is from September 12, 1926, when he was arrested in Chicago and turned over to the [[Niles, Illinois|Niles]] Police Department as a fugitive for breaking out of jail. On July 1, 1927, several hundred Westside gang members showed up threatening violence against a police sergeant for arresting DeStefano and shooting DeStefano's associate Harry Casgrovi. {{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

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===Acts of violence===

In November 1963, DeStefano had a violent argument with Leo Foreman, a real estate agent and one of DeStefano's "juice-loan" collectors,<ref>Roemer, William F. Jr., ''The Enforcer'' (1994) p. 39</ref> in Foreman's office. DeStefano was physically ejected by Foreman from his office, and then he went into hiding. Later on, DeStefano underlings [[Tony Spilotro]] and Chuck Crimaldi contacted Foreman and said DeStefano wanted to let "bygones be bygones". Foreman was lured to DeStefano's brother's house and was murdered soon after. In 1980 [if DeStefano dies in 1973 how could this occur in 1980?], DeStefano travelled to Somerville, Massachusetts, where he was given ten thousand dollars by Fat Freddy Sarno to kidnap Lenny 'The Quahog' Paradiso from the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. DeStefano decapitated Paradiso [according to a google search, Paradiso died of cancer in prison in 2008--more than 30 years after DeStefano died] and sold his head to Robert 'The Kansas City Buther' Berdella, and the rest of Paradiso's remains were dumped in Boston Outer Harbor, midway between Brewster Outer Island and Harding's Ledge, off of Victor Vitale's boat. DeStefano later testified against Berdella at his trial.

In another incident, Peter Cappelletti, a collector for DeStefano, fled Chicago with $25,000 from a loan shark victim. DeStefano's men located Cappelletti in [[Wisconsin]] and brought him back to Chicago. DeStefano chained Cappelletti to a radiator and tortured him for three days. While a banquet was going on, Cappelletti was secretly being tortured in the back of the restaurant. "Kill me man, please, I'm on fire!" Cappelletti implored, to which DeStefano replied "Then we need to put the fire out" before having his men drag the severely burned Cappelletti into the dining area and forcing the man's family to urinate on him in unison. Following the banquet, the family quickly paid back the stolen money.<ref name="AM" />