Summary of Anthony M. DeStefano's The Big Heist

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#1 The house on 102nd Road was owned by Burke’s daughter Catherine, who leased it to an elderly woman Burke had known growing up in an orphanage after being born with the name Jimmy Conway. The FBI dug up the soil and found some bones that had been overlooked in the burial pit.

#2 On June 17, 2013, Gaspare Valenti had arranged for his cousin Vincent Asaro to meet him at the Esquire Diner, a neighborhood place on Woodhaven Boulevard, where they could talk about a problem. Asaro drove up in a black Mercedes.

#3 Asaro’s paranoia was well placed, as his cousin Gaspare was a rat. He knew something was up, and when his car was spotted leaving the diner parking lot, he knew he was being taped. He didn’t want to say anything but ended up giving his cousin the only information he had: nothing.

#4 Vincent only stayed about ten minutes at the Inwood funeral home, and it wasn’t clear what he may have said to his son. He drove back to Liberty Avenue and got back into the Mercedes. Perhaps he was preoccupied thinking about his earlier conversation with cousin Gaspare and the suspicion that he was setting him up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522824

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Bradley Adams was a forensic anthropologist who was not bothered by the dead. He had to go through the embalming area to get to the garage when he stayed with his grandparents on school vacations. He didn’t have to witness the corpses having their internal organs sliced open with a trocar.

#2

The FBI received a tip that the remains of a murder victim might be under the concrete floor of an attached home in Ozone Park, a section of the Borough of Queens. They dug up the floor, and when they hit a small water pipe, they had to stop and fix it. It took the rest of the day to fix the pipe, and the digging was put off until the next morning.

#3

The agents continued digging, and soon found more bones: a human vertebra, a piece of a skull, a part of the coccyx or tailbone, the hyoid bone which normally lies behind the tongue and just above the Adam’s apple, and two ribs.

#4

After the FBI informant gave them the bones, they were sent to a laboratory to extract DNA evidence to see if they could be identified. The bones were those of Paul Katz, a small-time hijacker and fence for stolen property.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The house on 102nd Road was owned by Burke’s daughter Catherine, who leased it to an elderly woman Burke had known growing up in an orphanage after being