On June 5, 1980, 25-year-old Daniel Scutaro was murdered in Brooklyn, New York. Scutaro worked at a local auto body shop and became entangled in an organized crime dispute after a colleague, Charles Mongitore, pressed charges against the son of a Gambino family soldier. Members of the DeMeo crew targeted both men, luring them into a trap and killing them. Their bodies were found in the trunk of a car abandoned near Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Investigators later identified Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, known as the Gemini Twins, as the perpetrators. They were charged in a broad indictment that included racketeering, narcotics trafficking, auto theft, loan sharking, extortion, and multiple murders, and were convicted for their roles in the deaths of Scutaro and Mongitore among other crimes.