In the book For the Sins of My Father, written by Roy DeMeo's son and Guglielmo's nephew, Albert DeMeo considered Joe a "teenage stepbrother in my Uncle Joe. My grandfather DeMeo had died when Joe was a baby, and when Grandma DeMeo returned to her native Bologna, Italy without Joe, my parents (Roy and Gladys) took him in as their own. The five of us formed a happy, traditional Italian-American family."