In the wee hours of the morning of Thursday, March 23, 1978, the body of Genovese crime family captain Pasquale (Paddy Mac) Macchiarole was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of his automobile. Police said he had been killed in typical gangland fashion.
Police located the brand new 1977 maroon-colored Lincoln Continental parked behind a supermarket at the corner of Skidmore Avenue and Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn’s Canarsie section. As they approached the car, police said they smelled a foul odor. After officers jimmied the trunk open, they discovered the mafioso’s decomposing corpse.
