Thanksgiving Day hunters in Penfield, New York (just outside Rochester), discovered the beaten, mutilated and burned remains of a male murder victim.
Syracuse Post-Standard, Nov. 24, 1961. |
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Nov. 26, 1961. |
Albert Agueci |
As the date of trial approached, Albert Agueci disappeared. Vito and ten other defendants in the narcotics case were on trial in U.S. federal court in New York City when Albert's charred remains turned up.
The brutal gangland slaying was viewed both as a Magaddino disciplinary effort and as the boss's attempt to distance himself from the narcotics ring.
For more about Agueci, Magaddino and the Mafia of western New York, see DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime, Volume II.
He and his brother, Vito, ran a bakery in Toronto as their legit front. I think from memory, Albert was involved in The French Connection case, involving the Lucchese Family in New York.
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