The Rise and Fall of Thomas Patera

Thomas Patera began his life of violence by training and martial arts before going on to a successful career in organized crime. On a warm summer night in 1987, 32-year-old Thomas Patera sped through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesand. The idea that his men had wasted minutes beating sick sick rather than simply killing him, well, that didn't sit right. So he showed them how it was done.