SOLVED? Do We Know Who Committed the 1909 Murder of NYPD Lieutenant Joe Petrosino?
NYPD Lieutenant Joe Petrosino His name was Paolo Palazzotto. He was tried a century ago and acquitted. His crime? He was believed to have committed the notorious, brutal cold-blooded murder of legendary (not to mention courageous) New York Police Department Lieutenant Joe Petrosino in 1909. Now there's reason to b believe he really was guilty. One of the alleged assassin's ancestors, a Mafia hood nabbed in a recent major roundup in Sicily, was caught bragging that one of his forebears committed the hit.