From the Boston Globe archives, this is what I was looking for. Southend, this is your buddy's father. I remember reading around the time of the son's arrest in 2007 that his Dad was a made guy in the Patriarca's and that this was how he was 'whacked'. Took place in 1980. Lousy way to lose your Dad.
Arson is suspected in an explosion at a North Cambridge pizza shop
yesterday morning in which the shop's owner was killed.
Francesco DiCenzo, 42, of 32 Prince st. in Boston's North End, was dead on
arrival at Cambridge Hospital after the explosion ripped through Franco's
Pizza Sub and Breakfast Shop at 111 Rice st.
Sgt. Joseph Amoroso said an autopsy was scheduled today to determine the cause of DiCenzo's death.
Amoroso said arson was suspected in the 1:20 explosion that spread flames into a beauty shop on the first floor of an adjoining three-story building.
Fire Chief Daniel Regan said the fire's origin seemed "suspicious" and that the smell of gasoline inside the building indicated that arson might have been the cause. Regan also said he believed the pizza shop, located in a residential area, was closed at the time of the incident.
Ten persons were forced to evacuate their apartments in the building next door but were able to return after electrical power was restored.
Regan said the fire was concentrated in the pizza shop's cellar
