Barboza: Portrait of a Hit Man

Comment by Darryl Cox on April 24, 2012 at 3:00pm

I wonder where this interview was conducted. Barboza had been barred as a condition of parole and entry into the federal witness protection program from ever setting foot in Massachusetts again. The interview probably took place somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area; maybe around Santa Rosa. Whoever shot the footage must have held it until after Barboza was killed.  

Comment by ANN on December 10, 2012 at 11:49am

can't help who your friends were !  :-)  He was something else for sure.

Comment by ANN on December 10, 2012 at 12:09pm

very interesting side of him shown here !  He COULD be nice around women though, never had a problem w/him.  We were coffee partners, in those days.  Rough conversations, yes, but  he was always nice around me.

Comment by Darryl Cox on December 10, 2012 at 4:46pm

Joe had dinner with my parents and I on two occasions. We did not, of course, know that his real surname was Barboza or anything about his history. 

Comment by ANN on December 11, 2012 at 8:06am

Yes Joe, could behave himself in the 60's when I was around him, but you didn't piss him off, that's for sure ! :-)  He had a partner at that time named Bobby Trenholm, doing state time for raping little girls, I saw that a few yrs. ago on a site (FBI). Trenhholm  did 20 yrs in Walpole, then he got out, &hooked in w/Barboza. He also used to go to Baione's house , at that time.  Things wer wide open then, as you all know !  Now, forget it, nothing more around, just as well. At least I lived the life w/fun (sometimes, but mostly it was tragic that surrounded us).

At that time he hung around w/ Connie Frizzi and his brother Guy, both dead.  One Frizzi was OK, but the other never like me around his brother !

Comment by Darryl Cox on December 11, 2012 at 8:23am

I met Joe at the Marine Cooks & Stewards (MC&S) Training School in the summer of 1969. MC&S was a west coast maritime union. Enrollees, all men, were trained to cook on passenger ships and freighters by European chefs. I was 20 years old and knew absolutely nothing about Joe's past life and since I am by nature not nosy I did not pry. I learned later, of course, that Joe had been placed in the federal witness security program. He was the first "turncoat mobster" to be in the program. He got along well with everybody. He had his eccentricities but we all did. 

Comment by ANN on December 11, 2012 at 8:25am

For sure, we all have eccentricities :-)

Comment by Darryl Cox on December 11, 2012 at 8:26am

BTW, the school was located about five miles east of Santa Rosa, California on Mark West Springs Road. Santa Rosa is about 47 miles north of San Francisco, which is where I had been born and raised. 

Comment by Darryl Cox on December 11, 2012 at 8:30am

How did you come to know Joe?

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