Article: ON VIGILANTISM AND COLD-BLOODED MURDER

Article: FATAL SHOOTING: ACCIDENT OR MURDER?
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B John Cuccio pulled the trigger. A 16-year-old boy...his fate," said Purdy. "Not to have John Cuccio sit as prosecutor, defense attorney...lied to police because he was nervous. "John Cuccio must be accountable for what he did...

Article: Man denied bail reduction in killing
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 10, 2003 ;     587 words ......Two Star P. ALSO IN. Two Star B. One Star B Biographical: JOHN CUCCIO A state judge on Monday refused to lower the $750,000 bail...16-year-old boy in a 1998 vigilante-style shooting. That means that John Cuccio, 37, will remain in the Passaic County jail until he is tried...

Article: Guilty plea in vigilante slaying
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 4, 2003 ;     555 words ......Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Biographical: JOHN CUCCIO A Hawthorne man who shot a teenager to death more than five...pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a 21-year prison sentence. John Cuccio, 37, was convicted in 2000 of killing 16-year-old Sean Harvey...

Article: SLAYING SUSPECT HAS BAIL REDUCED
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early Biographical: JOHN CUCCIO When police searched the home of the Hawthorne man accused...emerged during a bail hearing in a Paterson courtroom for John Cuccio, the 32-year-old truck driver accused of fatally shooting...

Article: CORRECTIONS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 19, 2000 ;     96 words ......Saturday about Sgt. Rocco Cuccio, a Port Authority officer whose wife was found strangled to death Nov. 10. The photo was of John Cuccio, who is no relation. Three Web sites listed in the holiday shopping guide in Access magazine have shut down. Furniture.com...

Article: BOY SHOT DEAD IN HAWTHORNE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Star P, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Biographical: SEAN HARVEY. JOHN CUCCIO A fleeing 16-year-old boy from West Paterson was shot dead...teen and two friends were trying to steal a neighbor's car. John Cuccio, 32, of 116 N. 8th St., was being held on a charge of murder...

Article: GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ......HUGHES, Staff Writer Date: 04-08-2000, Saturday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B John Cuccio could spend 30 years in prison after a jury convicted him Friday of aggravated manslaughter in the vigilante shooting of a...

Article: JURY SEES MURDER SUSPECT'S ARSENAL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Staff Writer Date: 04-06-2000, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: Two Star P The state on Wednesday rested its case against John Cuccio after laying before the jury the arsenal of weapons and ammunition they found in Cuccio's home hours after the killing of...

Article: HAWTHORNE MAN CHANGED STORY IN FATAL SHOOTING, COP TESTIFIES
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 1, 2000 ;     364 words ......Saturday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B When a police officer first talked to John Cuccio, the Hawthorne man charged in the vigilante murder of a 16-year-old boy, there was no reason to believe he was the one responsible...

Article: COP WENT FOR MENTAL CARE AFTER WIFE'S DISAPPEARANCE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Saturday about Sgt. Rocco Cuccio, a Port Authority officer whose wife was found strangled to death Nov. 10. The photo was of John Cuccio, who is no relation. (PUBLISHED, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2000, PAGE a02.) Two days after he reported his wife missing, Port Authority...

Article: SHOOTING SUSPECT HAD PRIOR GUN RECORD
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 24, 1998 ;     691 words ......driver accused of fatally shooting an unarmed 16-year-old has been in trouble with a gun before, court records show. In 1986, John Cuccio was convicted of creating a "hazardous condition" by firing a .45-caliber automatic pistol while trespassing on private property...

Article: HAWTHORNE MAN FACES MURDER TRIAL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 14, 1998 ;     470 words ......INDICTED IN VIGILANTE SHOOTING By JENNIFER VAN DOREN, Staff Writer Date: 10-14-1998, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edition: 2 Star P John Cuccio, the Hawthorne truck driver accused of the vigilante shooting of a teenage boy during the summer, was indicted Thursday on...

Article: VIGILANTE KILLER GETS 37 YEARS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ......emotion-packed hearing filled with grieving relatives who gave tearful pleas for punishment. In April, a jury in Paterson convicted John Cuccio, 34, of aggravated manslaughter and attempted murder. Sean Harvey was killed after midnight on June 18, 1998, as he sat in...

Article: VIGILANTE KILLER WINS A NEW TRIAL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......appears to be the first of its kind in New Jersey, found that state Superior Court Judge Ronald Sokalski improperly banned John Cuccio's family from the courtroom during jury selection for the April 2000 trial, violating his Sixth Amendment right to an open...