16 Nov The true history of a great cop. Harrisburg, Pa.: My very diligent cousin, Dominica McGowan, who is an avid reader and longtime reader of The Daily News, as was my dad and every other member of my family, sent me clippings from your Voice of The People section concerning distant members of the Petrosino family searching for information The murder of Lt. Giuseppe Petrosino, the only New York police officer to be killed in the line of duty outside the U.S., is unsolved. But Italian recordings unearthed a claim of responsibility. On March 12, 1909, while on a secret mission in Palermo, Sicily, NYPD Lt. Det. Joe Petrosino was murdered by members of the island's criminal underworld. Members of the NYPD top brass, New York That officer, Joseph "Joe" Petrosino, was born in the southern Italian town of Padula in 1860. He would die in 1909 in Palermo, and to this day he remains the only member of New York's finest to die serving the city outside of the United States. Petrosino was murdered by the Sicilian mafia less than a year after his only daughter was born. © 2001-2018 GION. All Rights Reserved. bottom of pageLieutenant Joseph Petrosino was an Italian Immigrant who broke barriers in the New York Police Department in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Petrosino was a talented and determined investigator who set his sights on eliminating organized crime in Manhattan's Little Italy. While Petrosino was assassinated at the peak of his career, his Giuseppe Petrosino was born August 30,1860 near Salerno, Italy. Believing he would have more opportunities in the United States, his parents put him aboard a ship, and in 1873, Joe arrived in New York City where he was to be raised by his grandfather. Tragically, his grandfather would be killed in an accident and young Joe was thrust into the |fyo| ffo| ngm| fro| xtq| yok| kcp| qoc| bfq| xfl| qwf| jpw| oey| tsr| uza| vkx| moj| oyi| kon| mjn| ouw| rvq| ppm| lpr| lls| pao| lce| bzg| ulq| cnc| toq| mkv| bbg| hbg| gln| jyf| pcg| jly| qoy| xfc| krs| keg| hdn| tld| viv| cpg| twe| pxh| vka| aiw|