When Angelo Bedami returned from Sicily in 1983 to turn himself in for smuggling millions of dollars of drugs into Florida from Colombia, federal law enforcement officials’ first question was aout his father, Joe Bedami Sr., a convicted mobster and alleged hitman who went missing in 1968.
Angelo Bedami's father, Joe Bedami Sr., was a convicted mobster and alleged hit man who disappeared in 1968 after living in Tampa. For decades, it had been presumed that he ended up on the other side of a hit. But there were lingering doubts, which prompted the question: Was Joe Bedami Sr. really dead?
TAMPA, Fla. — When Angelo Bedami returned from hiding in Sicily in 1983 to turn himself in for smuggling millions of dollars of drugs into Florida from Colombia, federal law