On July 16, 1972, Thomas “Tommy Ryan” Eboli, member of the Genovese family ruling panel, was gunned down in Brooklyn. His body was found at around 1 A.M., face down on the sidewalk in front of 388 Lefferts Avenue, Crown Heights. There were five bullet holes in Eboli's face and neck. Fragments of glass from an automobile window were found in and around Eboli's body. Police concluded that Eboli had been shot at close range as he sat in a car parked near the curb. Eboli then somehow bolted from the automobile and was shot multiple times as he collapsed to the sidewalk. A police alarm was broadcast for a 1971 dark Cadillac with New Jersey license plates VFD 334, possibly with a shattered window which Eboli was known to have been using. In the right‐hand pocket of Eboli's jacket was $2,077 in cash. He had on a diamond ring and was wearing a gold crucifix around his neck. He lived with a common‐law wife in a luxury high-rise apartment in Fort Lee, N. J., but was in the...