Eddie Politelli

On the morning of 12 June 2006, Anthony Sposato arrived at his pizza shop, Mama Mia N.Y. Style Pizza and Pasta in Stevenson Ranch, California. As soon as he entered in through the front door, he could hear the voice of his longtime friend and coworker, 72-year-old Eddie Politelli, telling someone in the back, "Don't hurt me. I don't have anything."

On the morning of June 12th, 2006, at approximately 8:30 AM, Anthony Sposato arrived at work. Anthony - "Tony," he was known - was the owner of Mama Mia N.Y. Style Pizza and Pasta in Santa Clarita, California's Valencia Marketplace, a shopping mall near Stevenson Ranch, approximately 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

It was a seemingly-normal Monday near the end of Spring, with temperatures hovering just above 60-degrees at the time Tony arrived to work. It was expected to get up to the lower 70's later in the day - making for a comfortable start to the week.

Even though the shop didn't open until 11:00 AM, it wasn't unusual for other workers to have already arrived. On this Monday, Tony expected to have company; his longtime friend and coworker, 72-year-old Eddie Politelli, had been planning on showing up earlier that morning to begin preparing the pizza and pasta sauces for the day. As soon as Tony entered in through the front door, he could hear the sound of Eddie's voice... but it seemed like something was wrong.

Tony heard Eddie talking to somebody else near the back of the store, telling them:

"Don't hurt me. I don't have anything."

Because of Eddie's joking nature, Tony immediately thought that he was goofing off with somebody else. However, as Tony took a few steps into the back-kitchen, the reality of the situation began to dawn on him... this was not a joke of any kind. Tony walked back outside through the front door and started to walk around the building, toward the small back alley, not wanting to alert whoever was back there with Eddie.

Once near the rear of the building, Tony discovered that the elderly Eddie was crawling around on the ground. Near him - hovering above him, rather - was an unknown young man holding a machete.

This is the story of Eddie Politelli.

Born on August 5th, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, Edward John Politelli - who would go by "Eddie" for most of his life - was born to his parents, Carmine and Vincenza Politelli. Along with his parents and siblings, Eddie would grow up in Cranston, a city just outside of Providence, which is known for having a large Italian-American population.

According to numerous outlets, Eddie was always incredibly close and deferential to his mother and father, who - sadly - passed away in 1994 and 2000, respectively. They were buried together at a plot in Providence, Rhode Island.

Not much about Eddie's personal life is publicly known, as he was a relatively-private person, but we do know that he was married for years to a woman named Vilma, whom he had at least one child with, a son also named Eddie. The two would divorce in the 1980s - described as an amicable divorce - and the two would remain close afterwards, if only for their son and grandchildren’s' sake.

According to at least one news article that I found, Eddie came from a family of law officers in Rhode Island, and is believed to have had family spread throughout the northeast, including some that lived in New York and Maine. But despite coming from a rich cultural background, it seems like Eddie wanted to chart his own path in life... one centered around cooking. As described by an unnamed coworker that spoke to the Los Angeles Daily News:

"He worked with me three years, but he was a cook or chef all his life."

For years, Eddie worked at the Aurora Civic Association, a members-only club established by Italian immigrants that were kept out of other clubs and organizations, where Eddie became known for his dishes. He would later go on to own and operate his own restaurant for a time, called Ed Polli's in Providence, Rhode Island.

During his youth, Eddie also seemed to have made an honest attempt at pursuing a career in music, having drummed for several bands over decades. At one point, he even fronted a band called the El Polli Quartet, and Ed Plunket, another musician from Rhode Island, later remembered:

"He was a good drummer... Cooking was what he did, but music - that was his main objective. He would be in the kitchen hearing bands playing."

Among his friends and other loved ones, Eddie was well-liked and adored for his caring nature. Stephanie Capirchio, a family friend, later told reporters with the Santa Clarita Signal:

"He was like a second father to me. He was selfless. He did anything for anybody."

Sadly, in 2000 - the same year that Eddie lost his father - he also lost his son. That year, his son Eddie passed away from cancer, and in the years to come, would continue to constantly talk about his son and carry a picture around with him. As described by family friend Stephanie Capirchio:

"His son meant the world to him."

After the passing of his son, Eddie would take on custody of his son's dog, Lollie, who would become his frequent companion over the next six years.

In the early 2000's, Eddie Politelli decided to make an abrupt change in his life. He relocated from his native Rhode Island to the sunny beaches of southern California, where he planned to live out his retired years. While he didn't have any family in the area, he would keep in constant contact with his brother Buddy and sister-in-law Rosie, and seemed to maintain a special relationship with his granddaughters; in particular, his granddaughter Amanda, who he had called "Gigi" since she was little.

There, in southern California, he would live in Canyon Country, in a senior citizen complex off of Sierra Highway, near Chi Chi's Pizza. There, he lived alone - along with his beagle, Lollie, who he often jokingly referred to as his "wife" - and was well-known for his sense of humor. He reportedly kept up his love of music by playing drums at some clubs in the Toluca Lake area, and spent a lot of his free time watching crime dramas on TV. By-and-large, however, the thing that continued to occupy most of his time was cooking.

After arriving in southern California, Eddie had started working at Mama Mia N.Y. Style Pizza and Pasta, which was operated by some fellow Rhode Island natives. Tony Pono, a longtime friend and fellow east coast transplant, had known Eddie for more than 20 years, and later recalled to the L.A. Times:

"The guy was the greatest. This guy could whip up anything out of nothing, and when you taste it, you're going to die. That's how good his food was."

Eddie would work at Mama Mia as a prep cook for a bit, before eventually reaching the point of retirement. After that, however, he would continue to work at Mama Mia as a volunteer, in order to simply occupy his time with the thing that he loved doing: making food for others. Eddie would show up hours before the store opened - as early as 8:00 AM - to begin working on his pizza and pasta sauce, which had a tomato base but was filled with "small pieces of carrot, onion, greens, butter, and 'big chunks of pork.'" As described by his friend and fellow volunteer Tony Pono to the Signal:

"I don't know any Italian family that put the stuff in that he did."

Based on everything I've learned about Eddie, it seems to me that he enjoyed using food as his love language. In addition to cooking off-menu Italian soups for his friends that visited Mama Mia Pizza, he would even bring in homemade pizzas for the employees that serviced his vehicle at a nearby Wal-Mart auto center and regularly baked banana cream pies for his co-workers.

By June of 2006, it seems like Eddie had cemented a comfortable routine for himself in the Santa Clarita region of California. When he wasn't in the kitchen - cooking or baking something delicious for those he loved or appreciated - he could be seen driving around with his beagle, Lollie, whom he often described as his "wife" or his "hound dog." As described by Julie Nevarez, the store supervisor of Party City who often saw him:

"We always saw him and his little dog. We'd say 'hi' and talk about our animals."

Local resident Jennifer Sikorski would tell reporters with the Signal newspaper:

"He was just a sweet, sweet old man."

On the morning of June 12th, 2006, 72-year-old Eddie Politelli decided to arrive early at Mama Mia Pizza to begin working on his special sauce, which he took an incredible amount of pride in.

At around 8:10, a produce delivery man arrived to drop off an order of fresh lettuce and tomatoes at the shop, and Eddie met him there. Eddie had anticipated the man's arrival and brewed a fresh pot of coffee for the both of them, sitting down with the delivery man at one of Mama Mia's restaurant tables for a few minutes to chitchat. After a bit, though, the man left and returned to his truck, leaving Eddie alone in the restaurant for just a bit.

During the next several minutes, an unknown individual entered into Mama Mia Pizza, forcing Eddie to the back of the store - into a cramped, small back alleyway, where Eddie would spend his final minutes alive.

Just minutes later - at approximately 8:30 AM - store owner Anthony Sposato arrived at work, entering in through the front door of the restaurant. As described in the episode introduction, he heard Eddie speaking to someone else - telling them "Don't hurt me. I don't have anything" - but originally thought it was just a joke.

However, with each step further into the restaurant, Tony began to suspect that this wasn't a joke. He walked back out the front door and began creeping around the side of the building, hoping to get a glance of what was unfolding in the small back alleyway behind the pizza shop.

Once near the rear of the building, Tony was able to make out that Eddie was crawling around on the ground, with a younger man hovering near and above him, holding a machete.

Eddie, clearly having already been attacked, saw Tony and called out to his friend:

"Tony, help me. He's got a gun."

Eddie attempted to run away from his attacker, but the younger man with the machete grabbed Eddie by his shirt and pulled him back toward him; and then, in a single pull, down to the ground.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

The attacker began to hack at Eddie down on the ground, while Tony struggled to figure out if what he was seeing was real or not. He began backing away from the scene quickly as the attacker paused briefly to shout out at him:

"Come back here."

As he ran toward the front of the store, Tony attempted to call 911 from his cell phone, only to discover that the line was busy. Hearing only a busy signal from his end, Tony was unable to get through to emergency dispatchers to call help to the scene.

With no other option, Tony ran toward a nearby utility truck, picking up a shovel and demanding that some gardeners nearby call 911 for help. He cautiously returned to the back of the pizza shop, where Eddie was still lying on the ground - now, bloody and unmoving, with multiple rips and tears in his white T-shirt. The unknown attacker continued to hack at Eddie's body with the machete, while Tony began smacking the shovel against the ground, yelling out:

"Leave him alone. He's an old man."

As Tony encouraged the younger man to cease his attack and leave, the attacker reportedly motioned for him to step forward, hacking at the motionless Eddie a few more times.

Eventually, the attacker - who had been wearing a single strap from a backpack or bag of some kind throughout the attack - fled the scene in a metallic silver Dodge Magnum station wagon which had been parked nearby. He did so without attacking or harming anyone else, leaving behind Eddie's battered body on the ground behind Mama Mia Pizza.

Paramedics arrived at the scene a short time later, along with police, but by the time they arrived, 72-year-old Eddie Politelli was already deceased.

The region was shocked at the savage murder of 72-year-old Eddie Politelli, which had taken place in broad daylight in what everyone assumed was a "safe" neighborhood.

The following day - June 13th, 2006 - Mama Mia Pizza would remain closed, posting a sign on the front door that the restaurant was closed "due to a family tragedy." The shop would reopen again on Wednesday, two days after the murder.

However, employees of the Valencia Marketplace shopping center were encouraged to keep an eye out for any suspicious behavior - with the shocking crime from that week hanging over the entire plaza like a dark cloud. Certain businesses would ensure that no less than two employees were working at any given moment, and certain tasks, like taking out the garbage, were temporarily turned into multi-person jobs.

Jason Moses, the manager at Cost Plus, told reporters with the Santa Clarita Signal:

"He was such a nice old guy. When I found out it was (Eddie)... it just hurt me."

Eddie's Beagle, Lolly - which, if you recall, he had adopted after the tragic death of his son six years prior - was taken in and adopted by a friend following his death.

An unnamed coworker, who spoke with the Los Angeles Daily News, had worked with Eddie for just three years but had been friends with him for three decades. They said:

"He was a wonderful guy. This is a tragic thing that happened to a great human being who died because of stupidity. He wasn't out to hurt anybody, the guy would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it."

When asked by reporters with The Signal if Eddie had enemies, this same coworker stated:

"If he did, he kept it pretty quiet."

A memorial would be held at the Eternal Valley Memorial Park and Mortuary, and Eddie was laid to rest days later. His remains were cremated and then flown out to his native Rhode Island, where he was buried alongside his preceding family members.

Patricia Rodriguez, a frequent visitor of a restaurant next door to Mama Mia Pizza, later asked reporters with the Los Angeles Times:

"What bothers me is his age. Why? Why attack a man who can't defend himself?"

The investigation into Eddie Politelli's murder would be headed by the Homicide Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which had a hard time trying to determine not only the identity of the offender, but the seemingly-simple notion of motive.

Originally, it seems like robbery was not theorized to be the cause of the gruesome crime, with Detective Charles Morales telling The Signal:

"It doesn't look like a robbery, it looks like it was personal."

However, articles written later on would state that Eddie was killed during what was deemed an "interrupted robbery." Perhaps the offender had broken into Mama Mia Pizza when he suspected no one to be around? If so, I'd have a hard time equating that with someone who willingly butchered an old man to death in front of at least one eyewitness, but that's just me. Regardless, these were thoughts that investigators had to grapple with as they tried to ascertain why this crime had taken place.

An autopsy of Eddie would reveal that he had sustained multiple injuries during the attack, which were described as seven distinct wounds by Lt. Dana Bee of the L.A. County Department of Coroners. These included defensive wounds on his right hand, stabs to his left chest and lower abdomen, vertical stabs to his solar plexus and chest bone, cuts to his left ear, and superficial cuts to his lower back. According to a report in The Signal, Eddie had lost more than 1.5 liters of blood during the attack - approximately a quarter of the blood in his body - and blood spatter was noted along the ten-foot wall in the alleyway behind Mama Mia Pizza.

Authorities would reveal that Eddie had evidently left the front door of Mama Mia Pizza unlocked while he was inside, allowing the killer access to the building. Despite that, though, no money seemed to be missing from the store, and nothing of note seemed to have been taken from Eddie or the store, so again... why was the offender there?

Investigators would briefly consider the possibility that the killer was someone who'd had a prior encounter with the store's owner. Apparently, a few days before this incident, the pizza shop's owner had chased out a young man after an argument inside had grown rather-heated, and it was believed that the offender matched the same description. However, if any link was established between the two, investigators have not revealed that information over the ensuring decade-and-a-half.

In the years since this crime took place, the notion of the killer having a gun at the scene has proven tricky. A couple of outlets report the main eyewitness to Eddie's murder (Tony Sposato) seeing a gun in the offender's spare hand throughout the attack, but others omit this information. If you recall, Eddie had called out to Tony to help him, claiming that the offender had a gun, but the usage of a machete makes us wonder why he used that instead of a gun. Maybe the gun he had wasn't lethal - maybe it was a stun gun of some sort, which he'd used to shock Eddie into compliance - but him refusing to use it in this crime is another odd note that muddles the potential motive.

The location of the crime, Mama Mia Pizza, was not very memorable, with the store merely existing in a parking lot with some other stores and shops (such as a Michael's and Famous Footwear, among others). But the building itself was just a small casual restaurant in the corner of a large parking lot, with a small alleyway that ran behind the building - which was just a few feet wide. After that was a small grassy incline leading up to a busy four-lane road (The Old Road) that ran through Santa Clarita.

Other than sharing a parking lot with some other businesses, though, there was really nothing that set this building apart... Mama Mia Pizza didn't share space with a bank or a big money retail shop, so it seemed like this shop had been specifically targeted, for some reason that remains unknown to this day.

A surveillance camera from the restaurant next door, Cabo Cabana Fresh Baja Grill, was turned over to authorities and seemed to show someone walking by the restaurant at around the time the attack on Eddie began.

In this footage, the purported suspect seemed to walk past the Baja Grill towards Mama Mia Pizza next door, at a rather-steady clip. Almost as if he knew that the camera inside of the closed restaurant pointed out in the direction of the parking lot, he seemed to turn his head away at the last second so that a significant glimpse of his face would not be captured by the recording device. A few minutes later, he then walked back in the opposite direction at a much slower pace with his head down - again obscuring his face.

In this footage, the offender seemed to be wearing a dark-colored shirt or jacket along with light-colored pants, likely jeans. He also seemed to be wearing a backpack or bookbag of some sort, which - if you recall - the main eyewitness to the attack had described as the offender wearing over a single shoulder. For that reason, I believe that the attacker was wearing a messenger bag of some sort - the kind that were pretty popular at this point in the mid-2000s - because I find it hard to believe that he was single-strapping a backpack while swinging a machete back-and-forth multiple times.

Approximately fifteen minutes after this suspect was seen walking back-and-forth in the surveillance footage, a silver vehicle can be seen in the Baja Grill security tapes driving in front of the building. This was possibly the silver Dodge Magnum seen being used by the suspect as a getaway vehicle, and indicates that the offender was at the scene longer than anyone had previously suspected.

Unusually, evidence from the offender had been left behind at the crime scene. This included the packaging of the machete, a Nickolson Machete, which might have been purchased in the area. This led investigators on a search of shops that sold the brand in the region, fruitlessly hoping that they'd be able to track down when and where the killer had bought it. However, because this was a rather-common item, tracking down the exact one purchased would prove impossible.

The packaging for the machete had been left in the alley where the crime had been committed, along with an empty cardboard box, which the offender had carried the machete in. This was alongside several clear plastic bags, the importance of which remain unknown.

The unknown subject that committed this heinous crime was believed to have entered Mama Mia Pizza at some point between 8:00 and 8:30 AM for reasons that remain unknown to this day.

Based on the surveillance footage and descriptions from the eyewitness to Eddie's murder, police were able to put together a pretty solid description of the suspect. He was believed to be:

- A white or Hispanic male with light skin

- 25 to 30 years old

- Approximately 5'7" tall and weighed somewhere around 160 pounds

- Clean-shaven

- Short dark hair, described as brown and spiky in certain accounts

- Wearing a black sweatshirt and blue pants (likely jeans) at the time

This individual also drove away in a metallic silver Dodge Magnum station wagon, which led authorities on a vast search throughout the region. Investigators inquired as far away as Arizona in their pursuit of leads related to the vehicle, but were unfortunately hampered by the lack of a license plate number (which none of the witnesses had been able to make out).

Following the announcement of a $10,000 reward for information that led to the apprehension of a suspect, Detective Charles Morales would tell reporters with The Signal:

"The circle of suspects is widening. When they see that vehicle and someone driving it, they connect the two."

Despite authorities insisting weeks after the murder that robbery hadn't been a motive, they would amend their statements later on, claiming that the attacker was attempting to rob Mama Mia Pizza at the time of Eddie's death.. but the lack of a potential suspect or arrest seemed to cast doubt on this certainty, and raising other possibilities for motive.

One of the theories that has lingered in this case over the years is the possibility that whoever had killed Eddie did so because of his past - possibly someone with a personal grudge against him, or potentially someone hired to kill him to, as they say in the movies, "send a message."

[While I have a hard time believing that someone would want to kill a 72-year-old volunteer prep cook to send a message, in an effort to lay out this theory as plausible as I can, I'll try and be as critical of the available information as possible. With that said...]

Not much is known about Eddie's personal life in the decades before the murder. He was a really private person who lived in the era before social media, so very little about his life was laid out on a platform for us to easily digest. What we do know is laid out mostly from publicly available records and comments from other people, who described their memories of him... which, as we know, isn't always an unbiased perspective.

But that being said, it seems like very few of his loved ones or family members wanted to be publicly connected to Eddie after his death. In almost all of his eulogies and obituaries, he's only survived by a single granddaughter (who doesn't have much of a digital footprint herself) and almost all of his other family members are nowhere to be found. While obituaries usually lay out people's siblings, aunts, uncles, grandchildren, etc., in Eddie's case, it's just a single granddaughter... which isn't odd in and of itself, but in a case like this, where motive remains elusive sixteen years later, stands out a little bit.

During Eddie's autopsy, it was also noted that he had a tattoo on his right arm that was so old that investigators couldn't read it or make out what it was supposed to be. This is something else that could have a rather-innocuous explanation, but I must reiterate that I'm merely throwing shit against the wall to see if anything stands out.

During the autopsy, authorities also noticed that Eddie was missing his right index finger. He had never explained the injury to any of his other coworkers or friends, other than saying that he had lost the finger when he was 25 years old.

Is it possible that Eddie's killer was related to any of these leads? Probably not, but... stranger things have happened.

Another motive that has surely been explored by investigators in some detail is the possibility that money may have played a motive for Eddie's killer.

Friends recalled in the months and years after Eddie's death that he liked to play the horses, with one friend recalling to The Signal newspaper in February of 2012:

"He would also go to Santa Anita Park for the horse racing. He would always tell me about the horses."

I guess it's possible that Eddie had owed someone money - possibly related to his horse racing habit or maybe even the restaurant he had opened years prior - but I find it unlikely that they'd have resorted to hacking him to death with a machete to send a message. Regardless, if they had, then it worked, as they've been unidentified for more than sixteen years as of this point.

Had Eddie owed an outstanding debt to someone? Again, this is surely something investigators have looked into exhaustively, but with the lack of any resolution to date, is something we can only speculate about.

Sadly, by September of 2006 (just three months after the murder) the investigation headed by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department had reached a standstill. All of their received tips had led to dead-ends, including four accounts from eyewitnesses at the scene which had seemingly gone nowhere.

Detective Charles Morales would tell reporters in 2007:

"... the case has gone cold, you can say.

"We got a lot of phone calls but nothing that amounted to anything."

As briefly mentioned earlier, a $10,000 reward for information was offered up by the county Supervisor in the weeks after the murder, which was extended an extra 90 days in September of 2006. This seems to have not led to much movement, though, as the case had gone completely cold by the one-year anniversary of the case in June of 2007. At that point, detectives no longer had any active lines of investigation.

It was as if the offender had appeared into reality moments before the crime and then almost immediately disappeared, with them leaving behind no footprint in the area, and not even having an understandable motive to commit the crime. Investigators seemed to waver on the belief that it had been a robbery, with Detective Charles Morales telling The Signal:

"I don't think it will turn out to be someone who lives here. I think it was just a crime of opportunity."

Because none of the information in this case seems to make much sense, the most possible likelilhood - to me, at least - is that this was a random crime perpetrated by someone with no prior connection to Eddie... making it as every bit as terrifying as it is tragic.

Following his death, Eddie was buried alongside his family in Providence, Rhode Island, and many of the things he had loved and cherished are now also gone. Lolly, the Beagle he had adopted from his son and loved like his own child, has since passed. Mama Mia Pizza is permanently closed. The owner of Mama Mia Pizza, Tony Sposato - who had to bear the weight of witnessing Eddie's murder - has also passed.

From a eulogy posted in the Santa Clarita Signal, written by family friend Stephanie Capirchio of Cranston, Rhode Island:

"This is not an easy time for us because we all loved and cared about this selfless man, but we can all grieve together as a family, the way Eddie would have wanted us to.

"Now it is time to say goodbye to a father, a brother, a grandfather, a family member, and a close friend. Goodbye, Eddie. May you and your memory never be forgotten."

Sixteen years after Eddie's tragic murder, the case remains unsolved, and the suspect who committed the vile acts described in this episode remains unidentified. This individual was described as a white or Hispanic male, who was between 25 and 30 years old at the time (and would now likely be in his 40s). This man stood around 5'7" tall and weighed approximately 160 pounds with dark-colored hair that was described as "spiky." They drove away from the scene in a silver Dodge Magnum, a vehicle that was discontinued shortly after this crime (2008).

If this sounds like someone you know or have known, please reach out to L.A. County Crimestoppers at the email address "lacrimestoppers.org" or via telephone at 1-800-222-8477. If you like, your information can be kept anonymous, but can help bring closure to the loved ones of Eddie, many of whom continue to live on with little more than their memories of the man.

As of this episode's recording, the story of Eddie Politelli remains unresolved.

Episode Information

Episode Information

Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal Whelan

Published on August 21st, 2022

Music Credits

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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