A Florida man has been indicted in New York in connection with a 15-year-old cold case murder of his uncle, as revealed by the Queens District Attorney's Office. Anthony Scalici, 41, was indicted on a second-degree murder charge after investigators matched his DNA from a plastic fork he discarded at the crime scene.
The victim, Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64, was found stabbed to death in his Queens home back in 2009. The case had remained unsolved until February of this year when DNA from the crime scene was linked to Scalici through a utensil found in Florida, with the assistance of public genealogy databases. The District Attorney's office reported that Prestigiacomo had been stabbed 16 times and beaten with a shovel before his death.
