Andimo Tony Noto Pappadio was fatally shot outside his Hempstead, New York residence on a September night in 1976. Reportedly a significant figure in the Lucchese crime family and a powerful operator in garment district rackets, Pappadio was ambushed as he returned home; assailants lying in wait opened fire, killing him instantly in what investigators described as a targeted hit.

His murder occurred amid internal turmoil for the Lucchese family and was widely believed to stem from a power struggle over control of criminal enterprises. Law enforcement launched an extensive investigation and considered rival mobsters and disgruntled associates as possible suspects, but the case ran into a wall of silence and no arrests were ever made; the killing remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone in Hempstead or the garment district at the time see or hear anything that could still help explain who lay in wait for Pappadio?