Detective Dennis Wustenhoff died on Feb. 15, 1990, after a bomb hidden inside his unmarked car exploded in front of his home in North Patchogue. His daughters.
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The bomb that exploded 31 years ago this week when Suffolk County police Detective Dennis Wustenhoff started the engine of his white Cadillac, killing the undercover narcotics cop, is still heard in the mourning and answers that have followed. Leaving behind his wage and three children, they have been left to grapple with why it happened and that no one has been brought to justice. His son, Kevin, now serves as a Suffolk County police officer and he was 10 years-old on that tragic day.
“I was 10 years old and I felt like my whole life was ripped apart in minutes,” Scelsi said in a recent interview. “You grow up quick and you realize there are bad things in the world.”
Police tripled the reward for information leading to an arrest in the 1990 death of a Suffolk County detective killed by a car bomb in front of his own home.