Daniel Conti, 28, of Brooklyn, was found dead on October 29, 1977, inside the trunk of a car abandoned near the intersection of Rochester Avenue and President Street, by Lincoln Terrace Park. The body was discovered when people stripping the vehicle opened the trunk and found a corpse instead of spare metal.

Reports assembled later link Conti’s killing to a pattern of disposal used by a Brooklyn crew: close-range gunshot wounds described as to the eye and neck, and concealment in a trunk. Those accounts place his death amid a failed hijacking and suggest he was treated as a potential liability rather than a random victim. Names that appear in later compilations as connected to the case include Roy DeMeo and Peter LaFroscia, who is identified as Conti’s brother-in-law.

Public court records most clearly document wider prosecutions for stolen-car and racketeering activity tied to the same organization; Conti’s slaying itself does not appear to have been prosecuted as a discrete murder in those accessible records.