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”.
Fuhgeddaboudit......
Are you kidding?
The police at all levels will be quick to whine that they can't protect you, they can only act after a crime has been committed.
They do, however, a sterling job of hauling away your remains. Unfortunately, in this case...
Yep, ♫ "[he] should have seen this coming at [him] like an atom bomb." ♫
“And the neighbor didn’t move and change his name? “
That was my first thought.
The phrase ‘scared to death’ comes to mind, especially after the death threats. Poor man.
“And the neighbor didn’t move and change his name?”
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From wiki:
in the months after the accident, the word “Murderer” was spray painted onto Favara’s car. On May 28, Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti, Frank’s mother, attacked Favara with a metal baseball bat, sending him to the hospital. Favara decided not to press charges and planned to move out of Howard Beach.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on July 28, 1980, before Favara and his family were able to move, he was shoved into a van by several men near his work.