Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 168–174: the watch on Steve Ferrigno's apartment at Pelham Parkway and the killing of Ferrigno and Alfred Mineo
Valachi described renting an apartment across from Steve Ferrigno's on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, seeing Masseria at the building, and the shooting of Ferrigno and Mineo, which he said happened while he was away. He gave the place as "750 Pelham Parkway." Testimony, not a finding.
- Date
- 1963-10-01
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The NCJRS cover sheet records reproduction permission as "Public Domain / U.S. Senate."
Printed pages 168 to 174 of Part 1 (NCJRS PDF pages 183 to 189), October 1, 1963. Staff counsel LaVern Duffy opened the passage by saying that “Masseria had condemned to death all the Castellemarese Sicilians,” and that Valachi “participated in these killings of Alfred Mineo and Ferrigno.”
Valachi testified that he was told to move into an apartment with others he named, and that he did not know who “Fennuci” was. Asked whether that was “one of the bosses there under Masseria,” he did not say; Adlerman said he was “also known as Ferrigno,” and Valachi answered “I never knew his right name.” Valachi described a first plan to shoot from a car, which he said he called off, and said he saw Masseria himself arrive at the building. He testified that the others shot two men as they came out of a meeting at “Fennuci’s apartment,” from a new apartment rented that morning: “they shot these two, which were two bosses. They were just as important as Masseria was.” He said he was away at the time and went to Dannemora to visit his brother. After the killing, Duffy said, “All the Castellemarese are going to the defense of Mr. Maranzano” (printed page 174).
Asked by Duffy whether “the Pelham Parkway apartments” were where the murder took place, Valachi answered: “Yes; 750 Pelham Parkway, in the Bronx, in New York.” The New York police record read the same day gives other numbers: Ferrigno’s apartment “at 75 Pelham Parkway,” and shots fired from “apartment C-1 at 760 Pelham Parkway South” (pp. 174–179, printed page 178). All three are printed as given; this archive does not choose between them. Valachi testified that the Masseria side later traced furniture from the apartment, which made the war “declared” (pp. 207–209).
The words “boss” and “bosses” are Valachi’s and counsel’s. These are a witness’s sworn answers about events thirty-two years earlier, much of them hearsay, and not findings. Residential details of private persons in these pages are not repeated here.
Page images: printed p. 168 (stored above), p. 173 and p. 174.
