Anthony Romano, 64, was found shot to death on July 4, 1982, in a vacant lot in East New York, Brooklyn. His body was discovered alongside that of a relative, 36-year-old John Romano; both men had been shot multiple times in the head with a .38-caliber handgun and had their hands bound. The killings were treated as a double homicide and were described as retaliatory in motive.

Investigators connected the slayings to Roy DeMeo, the leader of a violent Gambino family crew, after law enforcement concluded the murders were revenge for a 1978 robbery of one of DeMeo’s associates, Peter LaFroscia. DeMeo was believed to be the primary perpetrator, but he was killed himself in January 1983 and therefore never tried for the Romano killings.

Did anyone in Brooklyn at the time have information about the Romano men, their activities, or the 1978 robbery that might shed further light on these deaths?