All episodes of “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” premiere on Netflix on Sept. 17.

Charlie Hunnam teases what Monster story he’d like to explore next — and it involves the mafia (exclusive)

All episodes of “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” premiere on Netflix on Sept. 17.

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- Charlie Hunnam has an idea for the next chapter in the *Monster *anthology — and it features the mafia.

- Hunnam starred in the Ed Gein chapter of *Monster*, along with Lizzie Borden’s as her father, Andrew Borden.

- All episodes of *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story *premiere on Netflix on Sept. 17.

Charlie Hunnam is already thinking about another chapter of *Monster*.

The actor, who appears as Andrew Borden in *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story** *and starred in *Monster: The Ed Gein Story**,* tells * *that he’s got another chapter in mind for the Ryan-Murphy-produced crime anthology series.

Hunnam says that someone had asked if he had “any ideas that might be interesting for this franchise,” and pitched a mafia season focused on Gambino family member Roy DeMeo, whose alleged murder spree spanned the 1970s in New York.

“He was a capo, so he had his own crew and his own level of autonomy within whatever the mafia were getting up to at that period of time,” Hunnam explains. “But he was a serial killer.”

Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein on ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’.

“And I just thought there’s something kind of interesting in that story in juxtaposing or investigating sanctioned murder,” he continues, “which is somewhat celebrated in that world if you’re willing to fight for the family or kill for the family or for business or to regulate an exact justice, street justice in the corrupted parameters of that world, versus somebody who was killing for pleasure and how one thing would be really vilified and the other thing celebrated.”

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“I thought that might be interesting fertile territory to explore, but [Ryan Murphy’s] not really interested in that world necessarily of organized crime. I spent maybe three minutes pitching it half-heartedly.”

Hunnam admits he was “really taken” by the podcast *Our Thing *with Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, an American gangster who became the underboss of the Gambino crime family.

“There was a moment when he touched on the interactions he had with Roy DeMeo,” Hunnam adds. “It was fresh in my mind. So I said, ‘Oh, this could be an interesting thing.’ And he went, ‘Nah, I don’t like getting more interested.’ So that was that.”

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Per the Mob Museum, DeMeo was an apprentice butcher whose skills eventually came in handy when he and his crew were allegedly responsible for up to 200 murders. They used his “Gemini Method” of execution, which made sure that no victims’ bodies would be found after being dismembered. The mob boss operated under the saying “no body, no crime.”

The gruesome method was named for his crew’s Brooklyn hangout, the Gemini Lounge, where many of the brutal murders took place. His crew was also involved in car theft, drug trafficking, and racketeering.

When the FBI grew suspicious of the missing people in the early 1980s, DeMeo grew paranoid and thought Gambino boss Paul Castellano wanted to put a hit on him.

His paranoia wasn’t completely unfounded. In January 1983, DeMeo’s mentor, Anthony “Nino” Gaggi, shot him in a Brooklyn garage, put his body in the trunk of a Cadillac, and drove it to a Brooklyn boatyard. His body was found frozen inside the trunk 10 days later.

‘For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life’ by Albert DeMeo.

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After his death, members of DeMeo’s crew would eventually be convicted of racketeering and for their involvement in the slayings through the 1970s and 1980s. The Mob Museum reported that members of La Cosa Nostra faced “federal allegations in the car theft ring, 25 related murders, drug trafficking, loansharking, extortion, fraud and prostitution.” Some of the allegations wouldn’t stick, but it marked the end of an era.

In 2003, DeMeo’s son Alfred released *For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life* about his father’s notorious career. Even if *Monster *doesn’t enter the world of mobsters, DeMeo’s story would make for great television.

All episodes of *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story** *are available to stream on Netflix.

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