# NYC Dopers: Any Updates On the Judge Crater Disappearance Case?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-any-updates-on-the-judge-crater-disappearance-case/613727 "2012-02-23T14:02:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-any-updates-on-the-judge-crater-disappearance-case/613727/1 "2012-02-23T14:02:35Z")

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The last I heard was that a letter turned up in the estate of a woman. This letter implicated a NYC cab driver and policeman in the disposal of Crater’s body-and human bones were found under a Coney Island pier.  
Were these remains tested for DNA?  
Sounds like the case ought to be put on “America’s Most Wanted”!  
Is the NYCPD still working this as a “cold case”?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-any-updates-on-the-judge-crater-disappearance-case/613727/2 "2012-02-23T15:58:59Z")

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[No, there was no pile of human bones that was being tested.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Crater#Recent_information)

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> On August 19, 2005, authorities revealed that they had received notes left by Stella Ferrucci-Good after her death at age 91. The writings identified a location near West Eighth Street in Coney Island, Brooklyn, at the current site of the New York Aquarium, where the woman claimed the judge was buried under the boardwalk. Moreover, the notes identified Crater’s killers as NYPD officers Robert Good (her husband) and Charles Burns, also bodyguard of Abe Reles of Murder, Inc. and Burns’s brother Frank, a cab driver.
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> Police reported that no records had been found to indicate that skeletal remains were discovered at that site when it was excavated in the 1950s. Richard J. Tofel, the author of Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crster and the New York He Left Behind, expressed skepticism of Ferrucci-Good’s account.

I doubt anybody is actively working on this. Even if Crater didn’t die shortly after he disappeared, he certainly died a long time ago and so did anyone who could have killed him or known what happened.