Joseph Mazzotta.

MUS-2026-0339

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Joseph Mazzotta, 40, was found shot in his office at Mazzotta Brothers Rentals in Middletown on April 12, 2003. Police found no forced entry and did not consider robbery a motive. Weeks earlier, a severed pig head had been left at the front door of a Cromwell bar where he was a partner. No arrest has been made.

1. 2003

   In March, a severed pig head was left at the front door of the Cromwell bar Cocktails on the Green, where Mazzotta was a partner.

2. 2003

   On April 12, Mazzotta, 40, was found shot in his office at Mazzotta Brothers Rentals in Middletown.

3. 2004

   Hartford Courant coverage reported the case continued to stymie police, with detectives believing he was killed between 1:45 p.m. and 8 p.m., two spent casings found, and robbery not considered a motive.

4. 2023

   Almost twenty years later, no arrest had been made and the case was described as gone ice cold.

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