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- 01NYPD detective Joseph Petrosino was shot dead in Piazza Marina, Palermo, on March 12, 1909.
- 02Cascio Ferro claimed personal credit for Petrosino's murder, allegedly boasting about it late in life.
- 03He is believed to be a primary model for Mario Puzo's Vito Corleone, the Godfather patriarch himself.