A thrown-out fork helped Queens detectives solve a 15-year-old murder case that led to a suspect's arrest earlier this month.
Anthony Scalisi is escorted from the 105th Precinct stationhouse in Queens on May 30, 2024 to face arraignment after being indicted on second-degree murder for killing a relative in Ridgewood back in 2009.Anthony Scalici was picked up in Florida on May 14 and brought back to Queens to face murder charges in connection with the 2009 death of Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64, who was stabbed to death inside his Ridgewood home on Feb. 10, 2009.
According to police sources and DA Melinda Katz, Anthony Scalici was extradited from Florida to the 105th Precinct for his alleged role in a 2009 homicideThe trail in the Prestigiacomo murder investigation went cold for more than a decade, with the NYPD Cold Case Squad and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s Cold Case Unit eventually picking up where detectives had left off.
Detectives had collected several swabs of DNA evidence from the scene and entered it into a national database. Through a family tree, police narrowed down a list of potential suspects, ultimately leading them to Scalici.
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