June 23, 2014

Italian Police Solve Murder of NYC Policeman After 105 Years



[From article]
He was dispatched to Sicily in March 1909 on a special job to investigate the Sicilian Mafia’s ties to its American counterpart the Black Hand, a group of thugs that targeted Italian-American immigrants.
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Petrosino was waiting for an alleged informant in downtown Palermo when he was ambushed by gunmen and shot four times.
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The case was unsolved until a police crackdown in Palermo over the weekend resulted in 95 arrests of suspected members of Mafia groups.
Police recordings caught one of the men arrested bragging that his relative was responsible for killing a top cop boasting, “My father’s uncle, whose name was Paolo Palazzotto, was responsible for the first policeman killed in Palermo. He murdered the first police officer to be killed in Palermo. He killed Joe Petrosino.”
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His legacy has lived on within the NYPD as well — with his great-great-nephew Joseph, 28, an active member on the force. The elder Joseph worked as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn District Attorney until he retired in 2011.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/23/italian-police-solve-105-year-old-nypd-mob-detectives-murder/

Italian police solve 105-year-old NYPD mob detective’s murder
By Dana Sauchelli and Sophia Rosenbaum
New York Post
June 23, 2014 | 2:21pm

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