A Killer Revealed: Who Murdered Police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

According to the official web page of the New York Police Department:

“There is no delineated time frame for cold cases.”

The killing of police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino on the evening of March 12, 1909, in the city of Palermo, Sicily, is perhaps the most famous cold case in their files. He was the first and only New York police officer, murdered overseas in the line of duty. Shot four times as he walked on a public square, late at night.

A complex case involving Mafia hoodlums based in New York and Sicily, it filled newspapers around the world with lurid headlines for days. It remained unsolved for 105 years. And then, it seems, someone finally reveals the name of Petrosino's killer.

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