Sarasota Resident, Former FBI Agent DeVecchio On Biography's 'Mobsters'

A retired FBI agent now living in Sarasota will be featured on Biography Channel's Mobsters this week about a captivating relationship with an informant that spanned 30 years.

Former FBI agent Lindley "Lynn" DeVecchio will appear in an episode of Mobsters this week where he discusses the handling of Gregory Scarpa, who was a Colombo crime family capo in New York and secretly an FBI informant since the 1960s.

The interview was filmed in March at by Sarasota-based InterMedia Productions.

Scarpa was known as "The Grim Reaper" in his mafia circles and was a Colombo family captain who eventually died in jail of AIDS in 1994 while serving time for murder. The charges that Scarpa faced had unraveled the informant relationship he had with DeVecchio, who faced four murder charges in 2007 for information provided to Scarpa that led to four murders. Those charges were later dropped when two writers had found a recorded interview that contradicted Scarpa's girlfriend's statements.

DeVecchio later wrote a book based on his time at the FBI and the Scarpa story, "We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster."

The episodes will air:

• 9 p.m. Tuesday
• 1 a.m. Wednesday
• 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4
• Midnight Wednesday, Sept. 5

Lindley DeVecchio On The Web

THE G-MAN AND THE HIT MAN (The New Yorker; 1996)

For Ex-F.B.I. Agent Accused in Murders, a Case of What Might Have Been (The New York Times; 2006)

WHO IS R. LINDLEY DeVECCHIO? (Sarasota Herald-Tribune; 2007)

Charges Dropped in F.B.I. Murder Case (The New York Times; 2007)