On the morning of March 14, 1980, 36-year-old former New York City police officer Peter Calabro was found shot to death in his station wagon off West Saddle River Road in Saddle River, New Jersey. He was returning home around 2:00 AM when, according to accounts, an assailant ambushed him and fired a shotgun; a snowplow crew later discovered his body slumped behind the wheel.

Investigators came to suspect a contract killing tied to organized crime. Reports say the Gambino crime family was suspected of ordering the hit. Years later incarcerated hitman Richard Kuklinski confessed, saying he waited in a snowbank, blocked the road with his car, and fired the fatal shots with a shotgun he claimed was provided by Salvatore Sammy the Bull Gravano, whom Kuklinski said had hired him. The confession led to Kuklinski pleading guilty to Calabro’s murder.

Calabro’s killing has been linked in reports to the 1977 drowning death of his first wife, Carmella, a death her family regarded as suspicious; a grand jury previously declined to charge Calabro in that case. If anyone knew Peter Calabro, his movements that night, or has information about links between the drowning and the later ambush, please share what is known.