But what about the Bouras and Curro murders, and the mob figures who law enforcement officials say were behind it?
To date, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has moved cautiously. Despite public testimony by federal authorities and detailed investigative reports by Philadelphia homicide detectives, no one else has been charged in the case.
"It's frustrating," said one source familiar with the investigation. ''The case is sitting in the D.A.'s office. There's nothing more to do."
"It's an open investigation, that's all I can say," said David Webb, head of the district attorney's homicide unit.
Federal and local investigators say the Bouras killing was ordered by then- mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, planned by mobster Raymond ''Long John" Martorano, and carried out by Martorano's son, George, and Frank Vadino, a sometime driver and bodyguard for the elder Martorano.
Bouras was one of the first victims in what became a reign of terror by Scarfo, whose penchant for violence eventually brought down his organization. In one of the most brazen mob hits of the 1980s, Bouras and Curro were gunned down as they sat at a table in a crowded South Philadelphia restaurant on May 27, 1981.
Those dining with the victims in the Meletis restaurant near Eighth and Catharine Streets included Raymond Martorano, Philadelphia disc jockey Jerry Blavat and former Philadelphia cop-turned-drug-dealer Joseph Inadi, a Bouras associate.
The motive for the shooting, say investigators, was a dispute over the lucrative methamphetamine trade in the Philadelphia-South Jersey area. In the early 1980s, Martorano was a major player in the "speed" business, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars dealing in phenyl-2-propanone (P2P), the contraband liquid chemical needed to make the drug. Bouras, who led the so- called Greek mob in the Philadelphia area, was horning in on Martorano's action.
