Posted on 01/12/2009 11:50:20 AM PST by Red Badger
NEW YORK — It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son — and then vanished?
According to papers filed this week in Brooklyn federal court, John Favara was shot to death on orders of the outraged Gambino crime family chief and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid. Authorities said a cooperating witness identified Charles Carneglia, a 62-year-old former mobster, as the perpetrator in the 1980 incident.
The court documents said Carneglia told another informant that acid was "the best method to use to avoid detection."
Those details, in a 44-page evidence motion by federal prosecutors for a racketeering trial, offered a new twist on the fate of Favara, a 51-year-old furniture warehouse worker who lived near the Gottis in the Howard Beach section of Queens.
Favara was arriving home from work on March 18, 1980, when Gotti's son Frank, riding a minibike, darted in front of his car. The driver told police he was momentarily blinded by the sun and did not see the boy.
The crash was ruled an accident by police, but Favara was subjected to death threats and harassment for months. His car was stolen and later smeared with the word "murderer," and he was threatened by Gotti's bat-wielding wife when he tried to apologize.
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The Sopranos did their body disposing Old School, the meat cleaver.
So, a guy’s just walking down the street, minding his own business when - WHAM! - he trips and falls into a vat of acid.
It could happen, it could happen...
It was just a harmless college prank....
The whole Gotti family should be dissolved in acid.
Look, this is Vinney’s watch...he’d want you to have it.
as a blue collar worker, he probably didn’t have the wherewithal to disappear and start a new life with a new identity.
That seems to have been the problem. Gotti was tired of looking at the guy more than anything. Gotti saw his unwillingness to be afraid as “disrespect”.
Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible? I mean can a “barrel” of acid (55 gal) really dissolve an entire human corpse?
Fuhgeddaboudit......
Yes, it is possible, teeth and all................
Gee. You’d think the home owner’s association would be upset at the Gotti’s for keeping all that acid in the garage or something.
They should all be whacked...............
a barrel of nearly anything liquid will dissolve body parts given enough time... lye is pretty good at that.
And then they fed the sausage to Polish people and pre-game tailgaters!
I don't any chemists in FR. But my college room mate knew a bit about acid cough, cough
And NY guidos cried for Gotti when a photo of him ill with cancer appeared in the NY Daily News. The wrote letters to the editor lambasting their “cruelty”. I guess dissolving someone is a vat of acid is okay in their books.
After the Battle of Trafalger, where he was killed by a sniper, Lord Nelson was placed in a barrel of cognac to preserve his remains on the voyage back to Blighty.
That is a hard-luck story if I ever heard one.
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