Charles Ruby Stein was a 61-year-old loan shark with ties to the Genovese and Colombo crime families who was murdered in Manhattan in the spring of 1977. On May 5, 1977, he was lured to the 596 Club in Hell’s Kitchen, territory controlled by the Westies. Danny Grillo, linked to the Gambino family’s DeMeo crew, shot Stein six times inside the club.

The body was dismembered by members of the Westies and an effort was made to dump the remains in the East River. On May 15, 1977, Stein’s torso washed ashore at Rockaway Beach in Queens.