Police end river search

Press, 6 October 1984, Page 10

Police end river search

NZPA-Reuter New York The New York police called off yesterday their fishing expedition at a spot in the East River they thought might be a “hit man’s” graveyard without finding any more bodies. Last week the police found two bodies neatly. wrapped in two cars and found six more cars submerged in the river, which runs along the east side of Manhattan. AU six cars were retrieved, and the police said they were empty save for ’an animal bone. The police had said on Thursday that the bone was

from a human, but yesterday said that it was an animal’s. A police spokesman added, “Don’t ask what kind. We don’t know.” The bodies in the two cars were said by the police to have been dumped in the river by “hit man,” Edward Esposito, who allegedly hanged himself last week after killing a New York State policeman, Richard Synder. He dumped Mr Synder’s body and car in the river, and the police found it after first fishing up a car containing the body of a crime figure Esposito was alleged to have killed in 1979.