More Remains Found In Suspected Mob Burial Ground

Teams of federal investigators and police began digging in Lindenwood on Monday October 4 at the location they suspect was used by the Gambino crime family as a dumping ground for bodies. Authorities claim that there could be at least five, but perhaps as many as two dozen bodies buried in a stretch of the Lindenwood community that many locals refer to as "The Hole."
One week later, FBI agents and NYPD detectives have unearthed various pieces of human skeletal remains at the site.
Shortly after 10 a.m. on Columbus Day, while digging through mud, agents began turning up bones. One FBI spokesperson said that a human hip or pelvic bone, a tibia and fibula and another bone, believed to be part of a hand or foot were found in the morning round of digging.
Teams of agents had been working from 7 a.m. until sundown, but Mondays discoveries led them to work well into the night. The extended search uncovered pieces of skull and a jawbone in addition to several ribs.
Investigators also found a pair of eyeglasses and a watch.
The bones were removed from the site and sent to be examined by forensic specialists and anthropologists.
There is much speculation surrounding the dig that prosecutors are on a hunt for further evidence against Gambino and Bonanno crime family members.
The site, which begins at Ruby Street and continues to 75th Street is just over the border from Brooklyn. Heavy duty construction machinery and equipment is being used to tear up slabs of concrete and cement and two backhoes are in place to move dirt in the dig. A four-block radius was sealed off by the authorities to collect whatever evidence is discovered.
According to law enforcement officials at the scene, the operation was launched because information has led them to believe that there are several bodies buried at the site. One of the bodies alleged to be buried there is that of John Favara, John Gottis former neighbor. In 1980, Favara was driving home when Gottis son rode a minibike in front of his car and was struck and killed. Favara was terrorized by members of the Gambino crime family for almost four months after the accident and then he disappeared after leaving his place of work. According to law enforcement officials, Favara was brutalized with a baseball bat, thrown into a van and then shot. Sources say they have information which supports that Favaras body was then taken to an auto body shop and dismembered, the body parts then mixed with cement and poured into a steel drum.
In addition to Favara, authorities say they have reason to believe that also buried at the site are crazed hitman Tommy DeSimone, played by Joe Pesci in the movie "Goodfellas", another unidentified hitman who purportedly would not carry out the hit on DeSimone and two capos of the Bonanno crime family, Phillip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trichera.
DeSimone went missing in 1979, less than one year after the famed $5.8 million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport, in which he played a big role. Both of the Bonanno capos were killed as part of a power struggle in 1981, along with Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, whose body was found shortly thereafter at the site now being excavated.
None of the officials at the site would comment on what led them to begin the excavation. However, it is believed that new information supplied by a mob informant is what prompted the dig to begin. But officials say that evidence unearthed at the site could contribute to adding to the sentences of many felons already prosecuted if time frames correspond with already existing cases.
With the initial success in the findings at the site, there is speculation that the excavation could last up to several months. Helicopters circle the area from above throughout the day as FBI and NYPD personnel continue to investigate the site.
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