Seeking To Identify 1960's Murder Victim, Police Hit Snag
Last month, police went to exhume the remains of a victim of a gangland hit from January 1969 near Route 17 in the village of Tuxedo, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan. The grave was empty. We wrote about the victim of another gangland hit that took place around the same time; that victim was located slightly to the northeast in the town of Saugerties. He was also never even identified despite the fact his pockets were stuffed with personal items, though no identification. You can read all about it here . The 1969 victim was buried in a cemetery in the 1970s. He was a white man, between 45 and 55 years old, who had been shot in the head in 1968, as per state police. Found with the remains were clothing, a St. Christopher medal and a Longine watch. "We're like bulldogs," Senior Investigator Yan Salomon told Fox News in an Oct. 27 report . The remains had been buried in the Highland Mills cemetery in the mid-1970s in a section for unidentified or unclaim...