[6] He attended Roosevelt Junior High school, where he befriended Armond "Peeps" Farranti and Tommy LaCastro.

[7] He was 13 years old when he and Farranti ran away from home and burglarized a closed filling station in Ashtabula, Ohio, but were caught by police a few hours later.

[9] A short time after his accident, Ferritto formed a gang called "The Wasps" with Farranti, LaCastro, and a few other local teenagers.

For two years, the gang smashed vending machines at gas stations, movie theaters, and other businesses, looting them of their coins.

"Dee" Adiutori,[10] an associate of James "Westfield Jimmy" Salamone of the Buffalo crime family.

[21] In Warren, Ferritto met Ronald "Ronnie the Crab" Carabbia and Anthony "Tony Dope" Delsanter.

Once out, Ferritto spent some time in the Cleveland area where he committed several burglaries with his childhood friends, Allie Calabrese and Pasquale "Butchie" Cisternino.

By the late 1960s, Ferritto had moved to Los Angeles where he was associated with a group of Cleveland mobsters, including Julius Petro.

Ferritto waited for a plane to take off, put a gun to the back of Julius Petro's head and fired a shot, killing him.

The murder resulted from a conflict with a well-known and successful bookmaker in Los Angeles who used Petro as muscle.

While assembling the explosive, Ferritto accidentally detonated the blasting cap, causing a minor injury to his leg.

In the 1970s, Danny Greene began competing with the Cleveland crime family for control of union rackets, resulting in a violent mob war.

Debbie Spoth, the daughter of a Berea policeman, was a sketch artist who drew an amazing likeness of Ray Ferritto for authorities.

When Ferritto learned that the Cleveland family wanted him dead, he became a government witness and testified against his co-defendants in the 1978 trial.

The State of Ohio indicted Licavoli, Lonardo, Ferritto, Carabbia and 15 other members of the Cleveland family for the Greene murder.

Ray Ferritto left the witness protection program after one year and continued to stay in Pennsylvania.