Scranton School Board president s murder remains unsolved 40 years later
Tommy Genova left behind a wife and four young children when he was gunned down just before a board meeting. No one has been convicted of his murder. Author: Carolyn Blackburne Updated: 9:41 PM EST January 27, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. It s been 40 years since Scranton School Board President Tommy Genova was killed in the parking lot of the district administration building.
He was 44 years old and left behind a wife and four young children.
All these years later, his murder remains a mystery.
His daughter Lori Macciocco remembers January 26, 1981, like it was yesterday. One minute, I was playing Atari that I got for Christmas and watching Little House on the Prairie that came on on Monday night, I kissed my father goodbye, and then the next minute I m kissing him on the operating table of a hospital. Cold. Dead, Macciocco said.
He was 44 years old and left behind a wife and four young children.
All these years later, his murder remains a mystery.
His daughter Lori Macciocco remembers January 26, 1981, like it was yesterday.
“One minute, I was playing Atari that I got for Christmas and watching Little House on the Prairie that came on on Monday night, I kissed my father goodbye, and then the next minute I’m kissing him on the operating table of a hospital. Cold. Dead,” Macciocco said.
Three years after Genova was killed, prosecutors charged Terry Moran.
During the trial, charges were dropped.
Then Lackawanna County District Attorney Ernie Preate found several witnesses lied to police, potentially, to cover their own involvement in the case.