Det. Joseph Pucciano, nicknamed the Italian Sherlock Holmes, died in 1928 and was buried without a headstone. But now that ...

Members of the Detectives Endowment Association will unveil the headstone for Det. Joseph Pucciano at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery Tuesday.

Nearly a century after his death, an NYPD detective is being remembered and honored for his gallant service to the city.

Detective Joseph Pucciano, who died in 1928 of tuberculosis, now has a gravestone in the historic cemetery alongside Detective Bernardino Grottano — his cousin by marriage and a fellow member of ...

An NYPD detective dubbed the “Italian Sherlock Holmes” will finally be getting a gravesite marker nearly a century after his death, the Daily News has learned. Members of the Detectives ...

“The DEA felt strongly that our detective deserves to be recognized in death as he was in life.” The cemetery situation involving Pucciano and Grottano didn’t come to light till retired NYPD ...

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- It took almost a century, but a detective who died in 1928 was finally given a proper burial on Tuesday. Det. Joseph Pucciano died of pulmonary tuberculosis and was laid to rest in ...

He joined the NYPD in 1905 and quickly rose to detective, helping to bust gangsters ... who seems to have solved one last mystery even in death. "For us, the real joy is knowing my mom, his ...

A headstone will be unveiled this week for NYPD Det. Joseph Pucciano, nearly 100 years after the legendary sleuth’s death, ...