By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Hartmut “Hans” Graewe, one of Cleveland’s most notorious Mafia hitmen, died behind bars on October 27, Cleveland.com reported last week. Graewe was 78. Before passing away in a federal prison in Texas, he was feared on the streets of Ohio. Nicknamed “The Surgeon”, he was fond of dismembering the bodies of his mob victims.

For more on Graewe – and his brother “Fritz” – and their life of crime read Trafficking drugs and dismembering bodies with the Graewe brothers, associates of the Cleveland Mafia by Robert Sberna.