RAYMOND FERRITTO Ohio hit man dies in Florida

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- Admitted mob hit man Raymond Ferritto, who participated in the 1977 bombing death of a Cleveland mobster, has died, his wife said Wednesday. He was 75.
Ferritto died Monday at his home of congestive heart failure, Susan Ferritto said.
"If you were to meet him and not know about his past, you would never believe he was involved" in the mafia, she said. "He was a very good man."
Ferritto testified in a 1978 trial that he was under contract by a mob family in Ohio and participated in the murder of Cleveland mobster Danny Greene, who died when a remote-control bomb blew up his car.
Ferritto said Ronald D. Carabbia, formerly of Poland, helped rig the car bomb and threw the switch. Carabbia contended he was at a football game in Struthers when Green was killed.
Carabbia, 75, spent nearly 25 years in prison and was paroled in 2002.
Ferritto also claimed responsibility for the 1969 slaying of Cleveland gangster Julius Anthony Petro. He served less than four years in prison for those two murders.
Ferritto moved from his hometown of Erie, Pa., to Florida in 2000 to "retire from the business," his wife said.
"He always said, 'When you live by the sword, you die by the sword,'" she said. "He always expected something to happen. It never did."
In addition to his wife, Ferritto's survivors also include a daughter, three sons, two stepchildren, a brother, two sisters and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.