 The driver of the van failed to follow orders; rather than driving the vehicle to the scrapyard, he parked it near a fire hydrant and went to sleep at his girlfriend's apartment.The NYPD recovered the van and lifted the fingerprints of several perpetrators of the robbery, helping to unravel the heist.On March 18, 1980, Gotti's youngest son, 12-year-old Frank Gotti, was run over and killed on a family friend's minibike by a neighbor named John Favara.