NYPD’s ‘Italian Sherlock Holmes’ Honored With Headstone Nearly a Century Later

NYPD’s ‘Italian Sherlock Holmes’ Honored With Headstone Nearly a Century Later

The NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association hosted a memorial service to unveil the marked gravestone of Detective Joseph Pucciano. Dozens of his descendants came together in Green-Wood Cemetery to honor him. (Photo: Courtesy of NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association) GREENWOOD HEIGHTS — It took nearly 100 years, but the Pucciano family finally got to say a proper goodbye to NYPD Detective Joseph Pucciano, famous for his savvy investigative skill…