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A man on Long Island in New York killed his three siblings and his niece Sunday before turning the gun on himself on the front lawn of the home he shared with his recently deceased mother, police ...
A 59-year-old man is suspected of killing his siblings and niece in their childhood home before turning the gun on himself on the front lawn in an apparent murder-suicide over the weekend at a ...
Salvatore Avellino Jr. (born November 19, 1935), also known as Sally, is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Lucchese crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in the garbage and waste management industry on Long Island, New York. [1] Avellino also served as right-hand man and chauffeur to boss Anthony "Tony Ducks ...
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His lawyers mounted appeals of his conviction. A 2003 appeal hearing presented new evidence from 20 witnesses who named his father's business partner as having planned, executed, and bragged about the murder. [5] [6] In December 2007, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division unanimously vacated Tankleff's conviction and sentence. [7]
Rifkin committed his first murder on February 20, 1989, killing Heidi Balch in his home in East Meadow. He then dismembered her body, removing her teeth and fingertips, putting her head in a paint can which he left in the woods on a golf course in Hopewell, New Jersey, disposing of her legs farther north, and dumping her remaining torso and arms into the East River around New York City.
On September 2, 2024, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Blue Line train as it traveled between Oak Park station and Harlem station. Four people were killed at random. The alleged shooter was taken into custody and charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Castellano was buried in the Moravian Cemetery in the New Dorp section of Staten Island. [55] The Archdiocese of New York refused to grant him a Catholic funeral, citing his notorious life and death. [56] [57] [58] Two weeks after the murder, Gotti was elected as the new boss of the Gambino family. [50]