Reports later said that three men were included in Petrosino's homicide

history channel documentary 2015 Reports later said that three men were included in Petrosino's homicide. Alongside the two men who faced Petrosino at the Café Oreto, the third man was accepted to be Don Vito Cascio Ferro himself. At the point when addressed by the police, Cascio Ferro said he was eating at the home at a Sicilian individual from the Italian Parliament at the season of Petrosino's demise. In any case, there were reports that Cascio Ferro had slipped unobtrusively away amid supper, sufficiently long to join in Petrosino's homicide, then slip back to the supper party, before anybody was the savvier.

The executing of Police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino sent tremors all through the avenues of New York City. Quickly, Police Commissioner Bingham was let go, on account of the break inside the police division, which prompted the stories in the daily papers itemizing Petrosino's go to Italy. It is evaluated that, as a result of Petrosino's death, a great many Italian culprits were not expelled back to Italy, and they kept on threatening the lanes of New York City for a considerable length of time to come.

It took three weeks for Petrosino's preserved body to come back to New York City. The burial service mass was on April 9, at the old St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mulberry Street, close Houston Street. The day had been proclaimed an open occasion, and more than 20,000 individuals accumulated in the avenues to watch the funeral wagon, conveying Petrosino's body, ride from the congregation to Calvary Cemetery in Queens. The funeral wagon was joined by 1000 policeman 2000 schoolchildren and formally dressed delegates from 60 Italian affiliations.

A few movies have been made in light of the life of Police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino. They incorporated a noiseless motion picture made in 1912 called "The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino." In 1960, Ernest Borgnine depicted Petrosino in the film, "Pay or Die." And Lionel Stander likewise played Petrosino in the 1973 motion picture, "The Black Hand."