I actually did family trees for all of them. Literally every single passafiume I could find. Hundreds. I might be ridiculous. That person on troutman *is* the right frank s. passafiume, at least I believe so, but the data is taken from public records - really old ones. this is an edited version of the email I sent namus, redacted:
"After obsessively creating family trees for literally every single Passafiume I could find record of for the last 100 years in the US – okay yes I may have a research problem – I have basically excluded all but one family. I am not definite about this because I promised you I wouldn’t contact anybody, so I cannot confirm their Frank is the missing Frank S. Passafiume...." (i sent the namus rep all the data)
here's what you are talking about,
@madamx -
"I did find a Frank S. Passafiume living sometime during 1950-1993 in public records. (real helpful huge date span there.) Birth Date 1 Jun 1948 Address 244 Troutman St Residence Place Brooklyn, New York, USA Zip Code 11237-2166. Interestingly, he was living with a Lucia Passafiume, who has since passed and I believe was much older.
Interestingly, there was a murder of a Passafiume for *
not cooperating* with the mafia in Sicily. Again, I can’t tell that it’s any relation."
anyway i redacted most of this because it's living people or references them, but you get the idea. I found one family that could fit and gave him everything I could find out from Frank's mother all the way down to his currently POSSIBLY living sisters. At this point, it relies upon LE contacting the two sisters and asking if this is their departed brother Frank. Then they could submit some dna, but I don't know if LE is pursuing this at all. I know it GOT to them because I trust NAMUS when they say they gave it to them, and I did hear from NY VICAP. But that's it.