Philip Carlo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Philip Carlo

American journalist

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1949

Date of Death: 08-Nov-2010

Profession: writer, author, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Philip Carlo

  • Philip Carlo (April 18, 1949 – November 8, 2010) was an American journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.
  • Carlo suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
  • He was bound to a wheelchair and respirator, but retained his ability to speak normally during his lifetime.
  • He died of the disease on November 8, 2010 at age 61. Philip Carlo was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York.
  • From an early age, he was involved in gang activity.
  • Raised on the streets of Brooklyn, New York.
  • In 1964 when Carlo was 15 years old, he witnessed a close friend shot to death by hit men from the Colombo crime family in broad daylight.
  • Moving toward induction into an organized crime mob family, Carlo found himself in trouble with the law.
  • At the age of 17, he was involved in a gang fight and shot in the forehead by a .22 caliber gun.
  • It was after this life-threatening moment that Carlo decided to turn his life around.
  • Carlo's passion for books ultimately steered him from the criminal path.
  • The works of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Dickens, among others, helped Carlo out of Brooklyn.
  • At 19, he moved to Manhattan and secured a job as a real estate agent on the Upper West Side, Manhattan.
  • Although successful, Carlo walked away from the business after nine years with the goal of ultimately becoming a professional writer.
  • Despite his illness, in early November 2009, Carlo was able to appear on Shovio's Talk Back TV, to take questions about his research.
  • His last book, The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters (which deals with his battle against ALS), was released posthumously in January 2011.

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