what happened to the man who ran over john gottis son?

March 18, 2014

I think it's one of the most intriguing unsolved mystery episodes from the gangland career of John Gotti: For a long time I've pondered any happened to the neighbour who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son — and then vanished?

The house on 86th Street in Queens where John Favara lived.

34 years ago on this solar day, tragedy struck in John Gotti's life. Gotti'southward youngest son, 12-yr former Frank Gotti, was run over and killed whilst riding on the minibike of a neighborhood child called Kevin McMahon, virtually his parent'south abode in Howard Beach, Queens.

The driver of the motorcar, John Favara, was a fifty-one-year-old service manager at a Castro Convertibles furniture constitute, he lived with his wife and two adopted children on 86th Street, directly behind the Gotti family on 85th Street. His son, Scott, was babyhood friends with John and Victoria Gotti's oldest son, John Jnr.

On March 18, 1980, John Favara was arriving home form work, when Gotti's son, Frank, darted in forepart of his car. He had not seen the minibike suddenly shoot out from behind a garbage dumpster until it was too tardily. Favara told the law he was momentarily blinded past the lord's day and did not see the boy.

The crash was ruled an blow by the police, but non anybody saw it the aforementioned manner.

Frank Gotti had been the apple tree of his father'south eye, the son for whom he had the highest of hopes. He was a promising pupil and athlete who enjoyed sports. His sudden death, crushed John Gotti and drove his wife, Victoria, into deep depression, the same feeling that would soon visit the Favara household.

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Tragic Loss: Frank Gotti on mom Victoria's lap surrounded by his siblings. The boy was fatally mowed down on his bike at the age of 12 by a driver on March 18, 1980. The driver, a neighbor of the family, vanished months after.

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Tragic Loss: Frank Gotti on mom Victoria's lap surrounded past his siblings. The boy was fatally mowed down on his bike at the age of 12 by a driver on March eighteen, 1980. The driver, a neighbor of the family unit, vanished months later.

For days following the accident, John Gotti appeared utterly distraught, seemingly breaking down during his son's funeral and burying. The grief felt past Victoria, whose life was her children, was tinged by a bitter rage for the presumed carelessness of Favara's driving.

For weeks after the funeral, Victoria Gotti dressed only in black. In the Gotti living room a picture of Frankie was hung over a backdrop of candles and flowers. A Queen's detective who saw it called it a shrine.

Most as crestfallen, was the hapless John Favara. Non long after the accident Favara was subjected to death threats and harassment for months later. Two days subsequently the boy'south death, an unidentified woman called the local police force and said, "The driver of the car that killed Frank Gotti volition be eliminated".

That same day Favara found a written death threat in his mailbox. Two weeks later on, Favara'south machine was stolen; information technology was found two weeks after abondoned on a street less than a mile away from his home.

On another occasion Favara opened his mailbox and found a funeral card and a photograph of Frank Gotti, and the discussion "murderer" was spray-painted on his car.

On May 28, John Favara a quiet family-human being decided to visit the Gotti residence to repent and to offering his condolences, was confronted by a wild-eyed Victoria Gotti who picked upward a baseball bat and smashed Favara over the caput with information technology. After existence treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital, Favara and his wife, Janet (who died in 2000), put their business firm upwards for sale.

On July 25, John and Victoria Gotti left for a week'due south vacation in Florida. Gotti explained that he wanted his grief-stricken wife to get some residual and relaxation. "My married woman is withal mourning my son and I took her down there to get her mind of things," Gotti said after.

Iii days later, on July 28, 1980, just two days before he was due to complete the sale of his home, John Favara left the Castro Convertibles piece of furniture manufactory at the finish of his shift and walked towards his car, which was parked beside a nearby diner, when he was confronted by a alpine, heavyset human being who whacked him over the head with a social club knocking him unconscious. The assailant and then picked upward Favara and threw him into the back of a blueish van, and drove off, followed by a dark-green car that had been parked in front end of the diner with the van.

Afterwards, a 3rd human drove Favara's station wagon abroad.

Neither John Favara nor his car were ever seen once more. He was officially declared dead six years later.

The specific'due south of Favara's actual death remain a mystery.

On the day John Favara was abducted, John and Victoria Gotti were conveniently 1500 miles away in Fort Lauderdale, (providing an alibi).

When questioned by two detectives on Favara's disappearance, John Gotti said: "I'm not sorry the guy'south missing. I wouldn't be sorry if the guy turned up dead." His wife Victoria, when questioned said: "I don't know what happened to him, simply I'm non disappointed he'southward missing. He killed my boy."

On August 5, 1980 FBI informant Billy Battista reported that Favara's body would never be found.

Accounts differ on what happened on the day of Favara'southward abduction and what happened to his body.

On March 8, 2001, Jerry Capeci's "Gang State News," ran an sectional business relationship of the John Favara disappearance. In the article, Capeci states that the story was put together from information from present and one-time law enforcement people who were connected with the case. Capeci identifies viii crew members – Angelo Ruggiero, Willie Boy Johnson, Gene Gotti, John and Charles Carneglia, Anthony Rampino, Richard Gomes and Iggy Alogna – as having played a role in the abduction and slaying.

It played out like this: as Favara approached his motorcar he spotted the men and turned to run. John Carneglia dropped him with 2 shots from a .22 caliber, silencer-equipped pistol. Favara gasped, "No. No. Delight, my wife," as he struggled to get off the ground. Gomes, a erstwhile hood from Providence, Rhode Island, who had joined the Gotti crew in the tardily 1970s, cracked Favara over the caput with a two-by-four, picked him upwardly and threw him in a van. Some other crewmember took the victim's keys and followed in Favara'due south car.

Favara and his motorcar were driven to a salvage 1000 in East New York operated past the Carneglias. At that place Favara'southward body was blimp into a barrel that was then filled with cement. While Charles Carneglia disposed of the barrel in the ocean off Brooklyn, his blood brother John crushed Favara's machine at the salvage thou. No one was ever arrested for the abduction and murder.

In November 2004, informants led the FBI to excavate a parking lot in New York City suspected to exist a mob graveyard and the site of Favara's torso. While two bodies were found, Favara's was non.

During the week of January 5, 2009, Brooklyn federal courtroom papers filed by prosecutors contained allegations that Gambino family unit hitman Charles Carneglia disposed of John Favara's body in acrid.

Charles Carneglia, who is serving life in prison for four murders, was a hitman for John Gotti, leader of New York's Gambino mob in the 1980s.

Carneglia told a Gambino family associate, who is a government witness, that he disposed of the torso by putting it in a barrel of acid, Banana Brooklyn U.Southward. Chaser Roger Burlingame said.

The mob associate who was non identified in the courtroom papers, but sources told the New York Daily News that it was Kevin McMahon, a mob wanna-exist close to Carneglia.

Ironically the minibike that Frank Gotti was riding on the mean solar day he was killed belonged to Kevin McMahon.

The case of John Favara has remained an unsolved mystery for 34 years and will continue to do so.

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