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Mr. Peter Franzone was testifying at the detectives' trial, in which they stand accused of killing Israel Greenwald and seven other men for the mob. 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 who made the mistake of crossing Burton Kaplan, a criminal mastermind with whom he had a deal to sell stolen Treasury bills. When the deal went bad, the government says, Mr. Kaplan hired the two detectives and Mr. Santora to dispose of Mr. Greenwald for $30,000. They took him to the lot, where the witness said he saw Mr. Eppolito in a parked car as Mr. Santora and Mr. Caracappa led the jeweler to the garage, from which he never returned.