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- 01Benedetto Madonia's body was stuffed into a sugar barrel and abandoned on East 11th Street, Manhattan, April 14, 1903.
- 02Detective Joseph Petrosino traced the killers by matching barrel wood shavings to a specific Brooklyn cooperage.
- 03The case exposed a transatlantic Sicilian extortion network operating in New York — five years before the NYPD had a word for it.