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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: John
"Dean"
Alexander Riccardi
(Dean Riccardi, Jackie Riccardi, Rick Riccardi, George Sammartino, Emanuel Shapiro)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 73 |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown hair may be greying, may be dying black
May be wearing a mustache |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Hazel |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Scar on right cheek where mole was removed
May have had a facelift, nose job and had space between teeth bonded
May wear bifocals to read
May wear full-framed thick glasses
Avid bodybuilder, muscular build |
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Wanted for :
Murder-2 counts, Los Angeles, CA;
Mar 04, 1983
UFAP, Los Angeles, CA;
Mar 04, 1983
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Traits |
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Health food addict |
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Doesn't smoke or drink |
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Plays up to women |
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Frequents singles bars, restaurants |
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Eats gourmet food |
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Drives sports cars, Cadillacs which he rents or leases, never buys |
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Frequently plays backgammon |
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Has worked as a restaurant and hotel manager, real estate agent, and owner of a hair-styling salon |
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Case Story |
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If He Can't Have Her, No One Can |
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John Riccardi would probably tell you today that he still loves Connie Navarro, the girlfriend he murdered in cold blood.
And he would proably tell you, he killed Connie, because he loved her so much.
Judging from his pictures taken in the 1980s, Riccardi could have gotten any woman he wanted. But he was attracted to Connie and she to him.
Theirs was a love affair of opposites. He was from New York, Connie was a California girl.
Riccardi was flashy, flirty, vain and mysteriously wealthy. He alluded to ties with the mob, but hid the fact he was a common burglar. Connie was fun, hardworking and an adoring mother to her teenage son David.
What they shared was an interest in body building and a strong sexual attraction.
If John Riccardi was telling the story, he would say things went sour when Connie decided to leave him. But friends say it was Riccardi's insane jealousy that led to their breakup.
Riccardi couldn't accept losing Connie, so on March 3, 1983, he went to her West LA apartment to talk and eventually kill. Connie wasn't home, so Riccardi, the burglar, broke in and waited; armed with a .38 revolver.
Connie showed up with her best friend, Susan Jory. An argument broke out and Riccardi shot Connie. She died from a gunshot wound to the chest. When Susan went to help her friend, Riccardi shot her in the head.
That night, John Riccardi began his eight year long life-on-the-run. |
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The Manhunt Begins |
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In 1983, FBI Agent Ralph DiFonzo, had been with the bureau for 8 years. He was brash, agressive and just about the best manhunter in the LA fugitive squad.
When DiFonzo retired 20 years later, he had personally nailed two of the FBI's Top Ten.
But back then, DiFonzo was faced with tracking a not-so-typical murderer on the run. The FBI felt Riccardi's alleged mob ties would help him keep one step ahead of the law, which kept DiFonzo on his toes.
From 1983 to 1988, DiFonzo tried to keep Riccardi's face in the news. An ad was placed in Muscle and Fitness Magazine and the LAPD put Riccardi on their "10 Most Wanted" list.
In 1988, when John Riccadi's father died in New York, DiFonzo requested undercover FBI agents attend the funeral in an attempt to spot Riccardi.
It was a complete wash. Worse yet, rumors had surfaced that Riccardi had been killed in a car accident and was buried in New York's Potter's Field. |
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Last Stand For The Ladies Man |
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In 1989, DiFonzo turned to the new Fox television show, America's Most Wanted and Riccardi was profiled three times. With each airing the FBI got closer to their man.
DiFonzo learned from AMW tipsters, that Riccardi was very much alive; he even found the gym where Riccardi worked out in New York. The FBI missed him by days. He also learned Riccardi had had plastic surgery to alter his appearence. But the best clue was that Riccardi had a new girlfriend, a young Scandanavian woman, with a model's looks.
A composite sketch of Riccardi's girlfriend was aired on AMW. A viewer not only identifed her, but also provided Agent DiFonzo with information he'd been waiting eight years for, John Riccardi's alias and his address in Houston, Texas. |
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