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The man with the secret was Peter Franzone, a sixth-grade dropout, who testified at the detectives' trial that the worst things he had done before that day took a car that did not belong to him and steal $65. Mr. Franzone told the jury in Federal District Court that he watched as Mr. Eppolito's cousin and Mr. Caracappa march their victim toward a garage on Nostrand Avenue near a collision shop he owned, then come out without him. Beyond this experience, Mr. Franzone presented himself as a regular guy, a working man who left his city job with 17 years' worth of unused vacation time. Though he said he never knew the name of the man he helped to bury, prosecutors say it was Mr. Greenwald, a Long Island jeweler. Mr. Franzone was already a friend of Mr. Santora's, having worked on his Oldsmobile at the collision shop.