Sammy Vecchio was found buried to the neck. Was the wealthy mob associate’s murder part of an Ontario biker war?
Salvatore (Sammy) Vecchio’s badly beaten body was found half-buried in a swampy area on the banks of the Thames River near London, Ont., on a seldom-used, dead-end road a few kilometres north of Iona Station on Dec. 15, 1998.
People who might help explain the unsolved murder of millionaire bachelor Vecchio are either in prison, murdered or on the run.
The 35-year-old’s head stuck out of the ground and had been repeatedly struck.
His body was found just a few kilometres from the ramshackle white farmhouse of long-time biker Wayne (Weiner) Kellestine, who’s now in prison for murder in the deaths of eight members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
Kellestine belonged to several outlaw biker clubs including the Outlaws, Loners, Annihilators and Bandidos before being sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight of his fellow Bandidos on his property in April 2006.
The out-of-the-way site where Vecchio’s body was found is also close to where the body of murder victim Sonya Nadine Mae Cywink was discovered on Aug. 30, 1994.
The site is also close to the cornfield where the body of murder victim David Kenneth O’Neil was found in January 1992 — in a shallow grave with multiple gunshots to his head.
O’Neil, 33, was sought by police on a first-degree murder warrant after Const. Scott Rossiter of the Ingersoll force was shot to death outside his detachment on Sept. 19, 1991, with his own revolver.
