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Bones found in purported mob graveyard |
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Written by DeadGirl
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Tuesday, 19 October 2004 |
Oct 12, 2004
By DESMOND BUTLER
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Police and federal agents found remains of two people believed to be former Mafia captains after expanding excavation work at a Queens lot reportedly used by a New York crime family, authorities said.
Searchers had recovered bones and other tissue in a shoe, ribs, a partial jaw and teeth and two personal items that led investigators to believe they had the remains of Bonanno crime family captains Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera, law enforcement officials familiar with the dig said Tuesday on condition of anonymity. The investigators didn't believe by Tuesday afternoon that they had found remains of anyone else.
FBI spokesman Jim Margolin said: "We're continuing to dig in that area today, and we're continuing to recover evidence today."
On Monday police discovered several pieces of a human skeleton at the lot, believed for years to be a graveyard for targets of hits ordered by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters more than two decades ago. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the search was "starting to be productive."
The medical examiner's office had received remains on Tuesday from more than one person and was expecting more items to arrive Wednesday, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.
Police cordoned off an area around a few city blocks surrounded by housing projects, abandoned cars and trash-strewn lots in the marshy area of Ozone Park. While a backhoe pulled down trees and took large bites out of the earth, FBI forensics agents and police officers sifted shovels full of soil.
Police and local residents have known about the lot since 1981, when children playing there found the body of a reputed crime figure, Alphonse Indelicato, who is believed to have been killed with Giaccone and Trinchera. But police failed to find more bodies then.
Recent court testimony in the case of crime boss Joseph Massino, who was convicted in July of murders including Indelicato, Giaccone and Trinchera, led police to make a more thorough search.
Agents began searching for the remains of a half-dozen or more victims last week. Those victims include a Gotti neighbor who killed the mob boss' 12-year-old son in a traffic accident.
Some local residents expressed relief that bodies were being removed from the lot Tuesday.
"People in the neighborhood call it Mafiaville," said Thomas Mendina, superintendent of a nearby housing complex.
The bones were to be examined by a forensic anthropologist.
Law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity last week, identified the main subjects of the search as Trinchera, Giaccone and Gotti neighbor John Favara, who disappeared in 1980. Favara, 51, vanished about four months after he hit Gotti's son with his car.
Gotti, who once headed the Gambino crime family, was convicted of racketeering and murder in 1992 and died in prison 10 years later.
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