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Ernie (The Hawk) Rupolo wasn't destined for underworld greatness; he didn't seem destined to live as long as he did, either, and when he finally did get rubbed out, in 1964, no one was supposed to know what happened to him because his body was never supposed to be found. John Sonny Franzese, left, next to the heavyweight champ. Rupolo was supposed to be just another gangland disappearance of just another hoodlum who got on the wrong side of the wrong person and then fell off the edge of the earth. That's where the story was supposed to end, only Ernie came back -- floated back, actually, and that set in motion a chain of events that knocked Sonny Franzese off his feet. (Sonny died last week on February 23 at the ripe old age of 103.) No, Sonny wasn't found guilty of Rupolo's murder, which some on both sides of the law believe he had nothing to do with (one of the "mob rats" who testified seems to have been a much more obvious and believable suspe...

A body wearing cement shoes washed up onto the Manhattan Beach shoreline in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The victim, with the arms tied behind the back, had been wrapped in black plastic bags and then  his feet were buried in concrete. The body was found on Monday morning along a Brooklyn beach, according to news reports . This is not the picture of the man found. The body's description comes straight from the mouth of the Brooklyn Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce. DNA News reported that the victim has been "tentatively" identified via fingerprints and tattoos, law enforcement sources said. His identity is being withheld pending family notification, the report added. Also the victim was killed recently as he survived a shooting earlier this year, sources said. Also, the man had a criminal history for fraud and narcotics, sources said. It was reported that the victim has a "substantial" tattoo of the Virgin Mary holding a rose, Boyce said ...