Joseph Scorney - Gangland Slaying
Joseph Scorney - Gangland Slaying The cement covered barrel with the remains of Joseph Scorney, found in 1982. He turned down wanting to be an associate in Roy DeMeo's crew because he didn't want to be a gangster and this was his demise. Allegedly Vito Arena and Richie DiNome had stuffed Scorney's body into a fifty-gallon oil barrel and filled it with cement and rolled it off a pier in Center Moriches, New York. In 1985 Arena was sentenced to eighteen years for the murder of Scorney... Read story Courtesy of Nate Miller. The cement covered barrel with the remains of Joseph Scorney, found in 1982. He turned down wanting to be On September 28, 1978 Joseph Scorney was murdered, although the motives never became clear to the participants in the murder, or later on to the defense team when Arena was questioned at the 1985 Mafia Commission Trial. Arena and Richard stuffed Scorney's body into a fifty-gallon oil barrel and filled it with cement and rolled it off a pier i...