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Monday, August 22, 2005


Judge Crater missing no more?
1930 CRATER VANISH 'SOLVED'

The NYPD's longest-running unsolved missing-person case — the bizarre and legendary disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater — may finally be solved...

... the Cold Case Squad is investigating information provided by Stella Ferrucci-Good of Bellerose, who died on April 2, at age 91...

[In] a handwritten letter in an envelope marked "Do not open until my death" Ferrucci-Good claimed that her late husband, Robert Good; an NYPD cop named Charles Burns; and the cop's cabby brother, Frank Burns, were responsible for Crater's death.

She added that the judge was buried in Coney Island, under the boardwalk near West Eighth Street, at the current site of the New York Aquarium...
Giving new meaning to "sleeping with the fishes".
In her letter, Ferrucci-Good also claimed that Officer Burns was one of the cops guarding notorious Murder Inc. killer Abe "Kid Twist" Reles when he somehow plummeted to his death from the sixth-floor window of a Coney Island hotel in 1941.

Reles had become a mob informant to escape the electric chair, testifying against a slew of Murder Inc. killers. His suspicious death plunge came just hours before he was due to rat out mob boss Albert Anastasia.

... police told family members that five bodies were found when the aquarium was built. Police sources confirmed that skeletal remains had been found there in the mid-1950s. They said those remains are now being examined to see if they can be linked to Crater...
One wonders: just how long do they keep old bones dug up at construction sites? And what does an officer have to do to get placed in charge of the "old bones section" of the evidence room?