Judge Zagel's courtroom is packed.
Roughly two dozen family members of Nick Calabrese's victims.
Nearly a whole row filled by Nick Calabrese's family.
Nick Calabrese wears a baggy gray sweatshirt and blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up.
Security is tight.
Steve,did you recognize any of Nicks family members.Were either of his nephews there,especially Kurt?
STEVE WARMBIR RESPONDS: I'm told several members of Nick Calabrese's family were there, although I did not recognize them personally. Kurt Calabrese was there as well.
This might sound silly, but what makes everyone so sure that Anthony Zizzo was murdered & his body disposed of? When these Mafia guys decide to cooperate, don't they often just disappear (i.e., swept-up by the FBI), until it's publicly disclosed at some point later that they are working with the government? How do we know that Zizzo isn't one of driving forces behind Family Secrets II, possibly helping to tie No Nose, Tornabene, Fratto, Matassa, and the others to murders, conspiracies, etc?
Just a thought.
That only happens in the movies.
When the FBI takes a person into WITSEC, they don't normally keep it a secret. The only secret they keep about it is the whereabouts of that person.
They especially don't keep it a secret for three-plus years.
They also wouldn't hold press conferences saying they are looking for information about his whereabouts.
His wife also wouldn't file a missing persons report and hold press conferences saying he doesn't have his medication.
His car also wouldn't be left abandoned to make it appear he simply disappear.
Again, all of that only happens in the movies, not in real life.
If that did happen both the FBI and his family wouldn't do what they did. They would just remain quiet about him.
There's obviously foul play involved here.
The FBI is probably interested because Zizzo was probably an informant for them or a target of one of their investigations.
Don't forget that only local police departments handle missing-person investigations, not the FBI -- unless they are involved in some way with that person, either as a target of an ongoing investigation or as a provider of information to them.
Of course, the U.S. Marshal's could be involved if Zizzo was still on some kind of parole status from his 1990s conviction, in which case I'm not sure of. In that case, he would be considered a fugitive and be put on the Marshals' wanted-fugitive list.
Does Warmbir or anyone know if inmates have Internet access in the slammer? If so, theories like the one I posited--only to have Anon. expose its asininity--must have these Outfit guys rolling on the floor.