Death
The body of Frank James Burke was found by the New York City Police Department in front of 1043 Liberty Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn at 2:30 a.m. on May 18, 1987. He had been shot multiple times. He was the last of several suspects in the Lufthansa heist murder of Angelo John Sepe to be found murdered. The remaining witnesses or participants were his father, Jimmy Burke (who was imprisoned for murder), Paul Vario (who was in prison for racketeering), and three others who had disappeared into the Witness Protection Program by this time: Henry Hill, Lufthansa Air John F. Kennedy International Airport employees Louis Werner, and Peter Gruenwald. Frank's death was not suspected to be related to mob activity, but was attributed to a fight in a bar. A drug dealer named Tito Ortiz (not to be confused with Tito Ortiz, the mixed martial arts fighter) was arrested for Burke's murder and later convicted.
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