John Peanuts Manfredonia was murdered inside his Mount Vernon, New York home on November 28, 1978. The murder scene was a bloodbath, with a smudge of blood on the wall and a victim lying in a pool of his own blood. Manfredonia was a bookie who was associated with the Vito Genovese crime family. He was linked to several restaurants in the Westchester County area. The hoodlum spent his time traveling back and forth between his Mount Vernon residence, a home in Massachusetts and another one in Florida. FBI agents on the east coast had kept him under surveillance for many years before he was killed.