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Daniel Jess Goldman
New Clues Uncovered In 1966 Kidnapping Of Danny Goldman
March 27, 2013 11:44 PM By Jim DeFede
URFSIDE (CBS4) – March 28 1966 – Aaron and Sally Goldman were awakened by an armed man looking for $10,000 the couple supposedly had hidden in their home. When he didn’t find the money, the intruder took the Goldman’s son, Danny, telling the parents that if they wanted their child back – they would need to come up with $25,000.
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“There was never a recovery of Danny dead or alive,” said Paul Novack, a former mayor for Surfside. “There was never an arrest made, and there are very few cases like that in the history of the country.”
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Novack believes the $10,000 that gunman was looking for was money the Goldmans were supposedly gathering to ship Danny out of the country so the boy wouldn’t have to sign up for the draft the next day when he turned 18.
But when the intruder didn’t find any cash, it turned into a kidnapping.
An attorney by day turned dogged detective at night, Paul Novack dug into the case discovering long lost reports and statements taken from two career criminals. One pointed at a fellow named Joe Cacciatore.
Chicken Cacciatore, as he was known, was an accomplished thief and burglar closely aligned with mob boss Santo Trafficante Jr.
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But as Novack learned, the Dade County Sheriff’s Office was notoriously crooked in the Sixties.
In fact, one of the Dade Sheriff’s deputies in charge of the Goldman investigation was eventually indicted in an unrelated case six months after the kidnapping.
“He was indicted with Joe Cacciatore for jointly committing burglaries,” Novack said.
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... police are now wondering if Danny’s old girlfriend might somehow hold the answer.
Because of Novack, Miami Dade Police have reopened the case and they have questioned Sharon several times in recent weeks.
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