Paul Volpe was a 56-year-old Italian-Canadian organized-crime figure killed in a carefully executed slaying on November 13, 1983. Known as The Fox, Volpe ran gambling, loansharking and construction-related rackets in southern Ontario and had ties to figures in Canada and the United States. He was last seen leaving the La Sem café in Woodbridge with his longtime driver and associate, Pietro Peter Scarcella, and investigators believe he was killed about 25 minutes later.

Volpe’s body was found the next day curled in the trunk of his wife’s BMW in a Toronto International Airport parking garage, shot several times in the head at close range with a small-calibre firearm; the weapon was never recovered. Detectives concluded he had been killed elsewhere and placed in the trunk. Airport parking records that might have identified who brought the car into the garage were incomplete and did not record that plate.

Police reviewed multiple leads and motives. An earlier 1981 contract to kill Volpe had produced convictions of Commisso organization members after an undercover RCMP operation; those proceedings did not determine who killed Volpe in 1983.

Did anyone who knew Volpe, his associates or his Atlantic City contacts see anything in November 1983 that could explain how he ended up in that airport garage trunk?