Vitale went to South Florida in the mid 70s. Mingled with the Colombo Florida crew. Was into the drug business. I don't think it was a Columbian drug hit. It has all the earmarks of a Little Dom Cataldo hit. Shot him à nd his wife with a .380 and then stabbed and slit their throats. iMO Persico ordered it and Dom Cataldo carried out the hit. His wife just happened to be wrong place wrong time and Dom wanted to make It look like a drug cartel hit.
Its funny you should say that Reb. Dom is dead now so what I say here doesn't really matter. I cannot hurt him. But Dom was well known for making regular trips down to South Florida to rip off drug stashes while he hung around with all his friends for a week or so.
I'm not sure if Dom was on the street in 1982, he may have been in the can. But that was his thing.
Now, would he have clipped Vitale who I "think" was in good graces with everybody, No!... but who really knows what they thought of Vitale then. Anthony and Joey Colombo were still in the borgata and I knew that caesar had been close to them at one time. But questions remain.
I can tell you that I do not believe (even for one second) that Colombians did it. And there is NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER to Mikey Papa's hit in Queens, or any other NY mob hit. The Vitale hit is a separate incident.
In those days NYC and S.FL were the Wild West. Shit popping off daily
