Unfinished Business From 1981 Murders Of Three Bonanno Capos
In May 2004, the Bonanno family’s first-ever “made” canary, former capo Frank Lino, became the first witness to describe the murders of the three Bonanno capos. The Hole -- the mob graveyard in Queens. Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato, Philllip (Phil Lucky) Giaccone, and Dominic (Big Trin) Trinchera had been slain together on May 5, 1981, in Brooklyn. Lino, then-66, testified that the capos had challenged Bonanno boss Joseph Massino for control of the Bonanno family and were brought to a meeting in the basement of a Dyker Heights club run by “Sammy Bull” Gravano. Massino and other allied mobsters awaited them with bad intentions. The three capos had been unarmed, thinking they were going to a meeting to iron out difficulties, though they all knew they were taking a huge risk. They were summarily murdered, blasted with shotguns, finished with pistols to the head. While the bullet-riddled body of Sonny Red had been found in a vacant lot in Ozone Park, Queens, in May o...