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Unearthing A Serial Killer
In the winter of 1985 Alex J. Mengel committed crimes so brutal, and macabre, in the northern suburbs of New York City, that he became the “Most Wanted” man in North America.
Since 2015 evidence has been uncovered that definitively identifies Mengel, as the perpetrator of one of the most heinous child abduction-murders, in modern New York City History.
Now, nearly 40 years later, the true extent of Mengel’s reign of terror is still unfolding.
July 16, 2023, marked the 39th anniversary of a dark-day in NYC History: twelve- year old Flushing, Queens’ resident Antonella Mattina was abducted at approximately noon, from the Linden Vue Shopping Center, located just blocks from her residence, at the intersection of Willets Point Blvd, and Parsons Blvd.
Horrifically, 40 months later, on Thanksgiving Day 1987 Antonella’s skull was recovered during a non-related Yorktown Police K-9 search of a wooded area, off the Taconic State Parkway, in Yorktown, Westchester County, NY.
No less disturbing, due to a long-ago bureaucratic stalemate Antonella’s Case is still classified by the New York State Police as an open case (cold case), in name only.
Since 2015 new evidence has emerged in regard to Antonella’s Case: Cop-killer, and double-murderer Alex J. Mengel (deceased), has been definitively identified as the perpetrator, who committed these brutal crimes against Antonella; there is also a high probability that Mengel was assisted, in either the form of a a co- conspirator, or facilitator.
On October 27th, 2000, Gustav Mengel (Alex Mengel’s Brother), a former Flushing resident, who at the time of Antonella’s abduction owned a dwelling located at 31-18 Union Street, was convicted in the State of Florida, of two counts of sexual battery upon a minor female. Convicted sex-offender Gustav Mengel has never been officially interviewed by authorities, in regard to Antonella’s Case.
Collaterally, the Mattina Family in their ultimate time of need, and during the decades that followed have been slandered by small-minded people, who have erroneously purported that organized crime was involved in Antonella’s abduction.
In 1984 NYPD Long-Term Missing Persons Detective Anthony J. Lombardi became the only NYPD detective to be intimately involved in investigating the two most heinous child-abduction murders, in modern New York City History: the May 25th, 1979, Case of six-year old Etan Patz, and Antonella’s Case.
In 1998 following successful heart transplant surgery, Detective Lombardi was forced into retirement, from the job that he cherished. On May 26th, 2010, NYPD Detective 2nd Grade Anthony J. Lombardi (ret.) took his own life. One day after the 31st anniversary of Etan Patz’abduction.
