Cosa Nostra News

Domenico Palazzotto, 29, was caught on a wiretap telling friends that his father’s uncle, Paolo Palazzotto, was responsible for the murder, La Repubblica reported. “He murdered the first police officer to be killed in Palermo,” Palazzotto was heard saying. “He killed   Joe Petrosino ,"  The Local  reported. Petrosino was short and heavy, but it was all solid muscle. He said his father's uncle killed Petrosino on behalf of Vito Cascio Ferro, a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra who also had dealings in America.

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.