Gary Gardine, 25, of Brooklyn was found dead on November 30, 1978, inside the trunk of a car that had been set on fire. He had been shot to death before the blaze; the fire followed after his body was sealed in the trunk. Reports tie the killing to a marijuana deal that went bad and say Gardine had tried to scam Harvey Chris Rosenberg, a young associate linked to Roy DeMeo’s crew.

Rosenberg is frequently named in lists of victims connected to the DeMeo group as the likely shooter, though accounts also allow that others may have been involved. Rosenberg himself was killed in Brooklyn on May 11, 1979, before any trial over Gardine’s death could take place.

Did anyone in Brooklyn at the time see or hear anything that could help shed light on what happened to Gary Gardine?