Two of Testa's underbosses have been described as responsible however, no actual suspects have ever been named. At the time he and several associates were under federal indictment for their activities Testa's killing sparked a four-year war for control that left 30 other mobsters dead. Philip Testa (56), known as "The Chicken Man", was killed when a nail bomb exploded under his porch as he stepped into his Philadelphia house on 15 March 1981, the second local mob boss to be assassinated within a year.Extensive investigation has been conducted with few leads, and has been unsuccessful. The Harris County Does consist of two currently unidentified murdered youths discovered on 12 January 1981, in Houston, Harris County, Texas near Wallisville Road.The man who found her, now in prison for killing his wife, is considered a person of interest. Her body was identified in February 2015. Carol Cole (17), was discovered stabbed to death in Bellevue, Louisiana in January 1981, after her 1980 disappearance.She was killed by strangulation and beating, also being sexually assaulted. A possible runaway matching her description was reported by a witness to have asked for directions to a prison unit, which she never arrived to. Sherri Jarvis, is a formerly unidentified 14-year-old girl whose body was found on 1 November 1980, in Huntsville, Texas, United States.His death is believed to have been ordered by the Commission as punishment for the unsanctioned killing of Bruno, but no suspects have ever been identified. Another Philadelphia mobster believed to have been involved in the Angelo Bruno assassination, Frank Sindone (52), was found dead with three gunshot wounds in the back of his head in a South Philadelphia alley on 29 October 1980.Authorities believe she may have been the victim of human trafficking. Tammy Terrell, a formerly unidentified seventeen-year-old, was discovered on 5 October 1980, in Henderson, Nevada.There has also been a series of suspicious deaths, murders or suicides among people involved in or investigating the case, further raising suspicion of a conspiracy. Whatever the cause, the investigations have been criticized as ineffective, and no culprits identified. The explosion that killed all 81 on board Itavia Flight 870 near the Italian island of Ustica on 27 June 1980, has been variously attributed to a bomb or a missile strike.War saxophonist Charles Miller (41), who co-wrote and sang their hit " Low Rider", was killed during a robbery in Los Angeles on 14 June 1980.He was believed to have ordered the killing of his own boss, Angelo Bruno, a month earlier over a drug dispute since he had not gotten the approval of the Commission he was himself killed at their order. The naked and beaten body of Antonio Caponigro (68), nicknamed "Tony Bananas", a Philadelphia mobster, was found in the trunk of a car in the Bronx on 18 April 1980, along with that of his brother-in-law Alfred Salerno.Her murderer and cause of death remain unknown, but police believe an unidentified male who stalked Scott with harassing phone calls prior to her disappearance and subsequent murder is the likely suspect. Her car was found burnt out in an alleyway 10 miles (16 km) from the hospital the following morning, and her decomposed remains were discovered in August 1984.
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