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Case Description
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In the spring of 1980, the life of Antonio Rocco Caponigro, a 68-year-old Italian-American male also known as 'Tony Bananas,' came to a violent and gruesome end in the Bronx, New York. His death on April 18 of that year was not a random act of violence but a calculated execution rooted in the strict and unforgiving laws of the American Mafia. Caponigro, who held the influential position of consigliere in the Philadelphia crime family, had orchestrated the murder of his own boss, Angelo Bruno, a ...Read More
Victim Details

Antonio Rocco Tony Bananas Caponigro

Male

White / Caucasian

Bronx

NY

1980-04-18

68

Antonio

Caponigro

01/10/2026