. >> monday, neaterly 40 years later, back then, they found an empty black van but they never found the loot. and mafia code of violence according to author and former reporter. who covered the mob for decades. >> but almost from the start, they knew who did it, and how it was done. the problem was getting actually finding them and convicting them. >> but cracks in that one sacred code have led to his day in court. witnesses against him include several former mobsters even his cousin, now cooperating with the government. monday they called him a danster through and through, a man who lived a long life of crime. >> there were a lot of snitches. people started owning up, they were getting -- they say dropping a dime and the fb, and i the police were getting a lot of drop dimes on who was involved. >> the defense team called the government witnesses untrust west think turn coats. one a liar always a liar. among other crimes he is accused of helping strangle a suspected informant to death with a dog clang in 1969. his partner there that murder the master mind of the height plays by robert d