Vincent LaMarca

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Vincent LaMarca is an American former police detective in Long Beach, New York. His story was adapted to the film City by the Sea , in which he was portrayed by Robert De Niro. [1]

When Vincent was 11, his father, Angelo LaMarca, was executed for the murder of Peter Weinberger, the result of a botched kidnapping; Angelo had stolen Weinberger from a bassinet on the porch of the baby's home, panicked, and ditched the child near a freeway exit where he died of suffocation in a honeysuckle patch. [2] [3]

His family was 'adopted' by the local police department, and LaMarca eventually ended up joining the same police force that had captured and helped in the prosecution of his father. [3]

In 1990, his son, Joey (who he hadn't seen in years), murdered a drug dealer, James Winston, whom he was trying to rob, later claiming that murder was in his genes. [4] [2]

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