Salvatore Testa - Aftermath

Aftermath

Violent and insecure, Scarfo would continue murdering Philadelphia crime family members whom he feared or envied. Since the 1980s, many of the made men who later became government informants, including Nicholas 'The Crow' Caramandi, Scarfo crime family underboss Phil Leonetti, and Polish-Italian capo Tommy DelGiorno, have confided that the murder of Testa marked the downfall of the Scarfo crime family regime over Philadelphia in many ways. Much of the family's trust with the Five Families was defeated, as Salvatore Testa, a respected member of the family and apparent successor to lead the family was killed for very little reason. Despite this, Nicholas Caramandi told in his autobiography how many associates, such as Phil Leonetti and Thomas DelGiorno, were enthusiastic about Testa's death leading up to the time of his murder because of their own increase of power in the family. In 1987, Scarfo was sent to prison for several murders, where he still is as of July, 2010.

In his funeral procession on September 20, 1984, nearly 300 mourners crowded St. Paul's Catholic Church in the city's Italian Market section, only a block from where Testa survived an assassination attempt that left him seriously wounded in 1982. He was interred with his father Philip and mother Alfia at the family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.