Chicago mob suspected in car bomb murder

Reputed Chicago Mafia associate Joseph Testa, 53, had escaped three previous bomb attacks. He wasn’t so lucky on a July 1981 evening when he backed his car out of a parking space at the Tamarac Country Club in Oakland Park. A remote-control operated bomb, planted on the driver’s side of the car, exploded. Testa’s right leg and part of his right arm were blown off. He died two days later. The case was never solved. Previously, bombs were detonated at property Testa owned in Chicago. Two months before the latest attack, a man called his Fort Lauderdale home to say, “Testa will die.” A wealthy builder, Testa was reportedly associated with the Anthony “Big Tuna” Accardo family in Chicago. Authorities suspect Marshall Caifano, a Chicago hit man who favored car bombs. Caifano died of natural causes in 2003.