On the morning of December 24, 1992, 31-year-old Rosemarie Uva and her husband Thomas sat in their maroon Mercury Topaz at a traffic light at 103rd Avenue and 91st Street in Ozone Park, Queens. Gunmen ambushed the couple, firing multiple shots into the car. Both Rosemarie and Thomas were struck in the head three times and died instantly; the out-of-control car drifted through the intersection and struck another vehicle before stopping against a wall.

In the months before the killings the couple had been robbing Mafia social clubs linked to the Gambino, Bonanno and Colombo families. Thomas reportedly entered the clubs armed with an Uzi and forced rivals to drop their pants while Rosemarie waited in the getaway car. Those robberies, described as meant to humiliate as well as to steal, prompted an open contract on the couple’s lives.

Federal investigators later learned, with help from Mafia informants, that leaders of the Gambino family ordered the hit. Dominick Skinny Dom Pizzonia and Ronald One Arm Trucchio were named in that account, and John A. Junior Gotti was reported to have boasted that the couple had been taken care of. In September 2005 Pizzonia was arrested in connection with the murders and was convicted in 2007 of racketeering conspiracy that included participation in the plot to kill the Uvas.

If anyone knew the Uvas, the clubs they targeted, or saw the shootings, does that information still exist for investigators?