RI RI - Ronald Raymond Leone, 28, Johnston, 3 Oct 1977

[MadMcGoo]

NamUs #MP42893
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/42893/details

Ronald Raymond Leone


Date of Last Contact: October 3, 1977
Missing From: Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Sex: Male
Age: 28 Years
Height: 5' 8" (68 Inches)
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Tattoo: Tattoo on right arm (Lion's head)
Clothing: Blue jeans and a t-shirt

Circumstances of Disappearance: October 3, 1977, Ronald Leone and Rudy Baronet (MP 42892) left the Leone family residence in Johnston, Rhode Island, apparently to visit a friend. Neither has ever been seen or heard from since.

Investigating Agency:
Johnston Police Department
(401) 231-8100
Johnston Police Department RI
Agency Case Number: 175396


There is not a publicly accessible profile for Rudy. I searched by name and NamUs MP#. I didn’t include him in the thread title for now. I suppose that can be changed if need be.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Found about 45 minutes away, but there’s not much information other than he was an adult and died in approximately 1978. That’s just a cursory search of Rhode Island. I’ll see what else I can find out about these two later.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Fede]

A guy called Anthony Parillo was originally convicted of both murders. The sentence was overturned and he should have had a new trial. Here is a legal article
PEZZULLI v. STATE | 494 A.2d 540 (1985) | a2d54011025 | Leagle.com

 

[MadMcGoo]

State v. Parillo
https://www.newspapers.com/image/436301184/?terms="Ronald Leone"&match=1
The Ponytail Gets Cut: N.E. Mob Chief 'Ponytail' Tony Parrillo Ticketed For Return Trip To Big House - The Gangster Report
https://www.newspapers.com/image/436301184/?terms="Ronald Leone"&match=1
7 Oct 1977, 26 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

“Police hunt missing R.I. man
PROVIDENCE - Police fear foul play may be involved in the Monday disappearance of Ronald R. Leone, 28, and have issued an all-points bulletin for him. Leone was a first cousin and associate of Gerald D. Christy, who was found slain gangland-style last month in Malden, Mass. Police say Leone was last seen with Rudy Baronet, 17, of Cranston. She is also missing.” (Not sure why this articles refers to Rudy as a she, as far as I can tell Rudy is a he)

5 Jan 1978, 38 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.comhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/436968081/?terms="Rudy baronet"&match=1

According to this, Gerald Christy’s body was found in a sleeping bag inside a vehicle in Massachusetts after he disappeared from R.I. That could be significant because that is what Anthony Parillo and his accomplice, Dennis Roche (killed in 1981), allegedly did with Ronald and Rudy; murdered them and then placed them in sleeping bags and disposed of their bodies some place. All these people seem to be connected to one New England “mob boss”, Raymond Patriarca.

Unfortunately I’m not hopeful these two men are alive. You can google any one of the names mentioned and find much more about their criminal activities.

 

[madamx]

State v. Parillo. Below are some snip it’s from the article.

At about 9:30 a.m. on October 3, 1977, Ronald Leone and Rudy Baronet left the Leone family residence in Johnston, Rhode Island, apparently to visit a friend. Neither has ever been seen or heard from since. Their disappearance was reported to the Johnston police department that same evening by Ronald's mother, Mrs. Josephine Pezzulli,[1] but neither man has ever been found.


Mrs. Manfredi arrived back at 69 Mount Pleasant Avenue slightly more than an hour after her previous departure. She passed through the downstairs doorway through an unlocked door and proceeded upstairs to defendant's apartment. After she arrived at the second floor landing, she entered defendant's apartment, letting herself in through an unlocked parlor door. When she entered the parlor, Mrs. Manfredi did not see anyone. She began to walk towards the kitchen of the apartment, but halted at the threshold. From this vantage point, she could see both defendant and Dennis Roche in the kitchen and two bodies on the kitchen floor. She recognized one of the bodies as that of Ronald Leone (someone she had known for some five or six months prior to this incident) but did not recognize the other one. She did, however, describe the second body as that of a young, teenage male.

Mrs. Manfredi described the face of Ronald Leone and that of the teenage boy as full of blood and stated that they both appeared to be dead. She observed that defendant was zippering up a sleeping bag with Ronald Leone inside and Dennis Roche was apparently pursuing a similar course of action with the body of the unknown teenager. She further noticed that the same silver gun and black briefcase that she had delivered to defendant earlier that morning were on the kitchen table and that the entire kitchen was "scattered with blood."

Dennis Roche and defendant subsequently removed the bodies from the Mount Pleasant Avenue apartment in Mrs. Manfredi's presence. They also placed the silver gun inside the black briefcase and removed it from their apartment. Before leaving their apartment, defendant had an additional request to make of Mrs. Manfredi. He asked her if she would stay and clean up the kitchen. This she agreed to do and therefore she remained in the apartment for one to one and one-half hours, scrubbing nearly the entire kitchen to remove the blood splattered all over it before defendant's return. Upon his return, Mrs. Manfredi questioned defendant about his disposition of the bodies. The defendant instructed her not "to worry about it [t]hey're gone and [you should] forget it."

 

[madamx]

 

[Pennysmom2]

5506DMRI - Ronald Raymond Leone

Name: Ronald Raymond Leone
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: October 03, 1977
Location Last Seen: Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: Circa 1949
Age: 28 years old
Race: White / Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair Color: Brown.
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Tattoo: tattoo on right arm (Lion's head)

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: blue jeans and a t-shirt
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items:

Circumstances of Disappearance​

October 3, 1977, Ronald Leone and Rudy Baronet (MP 42892) left the Leone family residence in Johnston, Rhode Island, apparently to visit a friend. Neither has ever been seen or heard from since.

NamUs Case Number: 42893

Information Source(s)​

NamUs

Admin Notes​

Added: 11/27/2021; Last Updated: 11/27/2021 - By: Doe-NamUs-App