LA LA - Gabriel Caporino, 41, New Orleans, 7 March 1974

Missing Since: March 7, 1974 from New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Classification: Missing

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Vital Statistics

•Age at Time of Disappearance: 41 years old
•Date of Birth: March 16, 1933
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10"-6'0"; 160 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; brown eyes.
•Dentals: Available. Unique dental anomalies.
•Fingerprints: Not Available
•DNA: Available at the University of North Texas.
•AKA: Gabe

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Circumstances of Disappearance:
Gabriel Caporino left the Intercontinental Hotel on Canal Street to go to the French Quarter to hear jazz. He drove his Hertz rented car to the location.
He called a family member that evening to tell his plans for the evening and confirm his flight home the next day.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

New Orleans Police Department
or
Detective John Duzac
New Orleans - FBI


Source Information:
NamUs https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/1711/177/
The Doe Network http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4073dmla.html
LSU FACES Lab http://identifyla.lsu.edu/profile.php?id=521

Gabe has been ruled out as:

http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33981

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/715umfl.html

I ran across this interesting article written a couple years ago about Gabriel Caporino. Seems fitting to post it today, 40 years since the day Gabe disappeared.

http://www.registercitizen.com/gene...om-of-information-in-a-criminal-investigation

One of many disturbing excerpts from it:

On Sunday, March 10, 1974, Ison and his colleagues met privately with New Orleans police, barring members of the Caporino family. This crucial meeting presaged, if it did not predestine, the shocking and abysmal refusal of the New Orleans Police Department to follow up on basic and compelling leads, including the forgery of Gabe Caporino's credit card four days after he was reported missing. This forgery was ultimately documented by the FBI crime lab. Significantly, a Sears employee who witnessed three individuals using Gabe's credit card recanted after a visit by New Orleans police.

Instead of trying to find Gabe Caporino, the GF corporate leadership acted in concert with New Orleans police to trash him with unsubstantiated allegations ranging from gambling and unspecified industrial espionage to mob connections and inept *advertiser censored* mongering.

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From the same search, Gabe has also been ruled out as any of these unidentified persons.
Ruled out as UID 2490 in San Bernandino Dec'74.
Ruled out as UID 9509 in Virgina Beach Feb '83.
Ruled out as UID 2303 in Pinellas Co Oct '92.
Ruled out as UID 1506 in Pinellas Co Mar '81.
Ruled out as UID 2871 in Phillips Co, AR in June '82.

One would NEVER need a cab to go to the FQ from the Intercontinental. I call BS

Bumping

There is much "todo" on the disappearance of Gabriel Caporino

no new info

Gabriel Anthony "Gabe" Caporino

claim for workers comp death benefits

MATTER OF CAPORINO v. GEN | 122 A.D.2d 470 (1986) | ad2d4701198 | Leagle.com

Claim for insurance death benefits. Couple little tidbits of info.

CAPORINO v. TRAVELERS INS | N.Y. App. Div. | Judgment | Law | CaseMine

Bumping for Gabe as we approach the 47th anniversary...

Gabriel Anthony Caporino – The Charley Project

Caporino was last seen in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 7, 1974. He was on a week-long business trip in the city at the time. He left the Intercontinental Hotel on Canal Street to drive to the French Quarter to listen to jazz music. He was driving a blue 1974 Montego rented from the Hertz company. He spoke to his wife and two teenage daughters on the phone that evening and said he was flying home the next day. He has never been heard from again.

After Caporino's disappearance, his unused plane tickets, partially packed suitcases and gifts he'd bought for his family were found in his hotel room. Four days after he was last seen, three people described as "hippie types" used his credit card at a Sears store to buy a camera and some clothes. When the group was asked for additional identification for the credit purchase, they presented Caporino's Allstate insurance card.

Ten days after the credit card was used, Caporino's rental car was found abandoned; it had reportedly been wiped clean of fingerprints and the keys were in the door lock. Caporino's family, however, doesn't think the car could have been left in that location and in that condition for as long as it supposedly was, without being stolen.

Caporino is a U.S. Navy Veteran. At the time of his disappearance, he lived in Yorktown Heights, New York and was an executive in the coffee division of the General Foods company. According to his wife, he was a devoted husband, father and employee and there is no evidence that he had any problems in his life bad enough to make him walk away. He was declared legally dead in 1979. His case remains unsolved.

4073DMLA - Gabriel Anthony Caporino