HACKENSACK, N.J.—Two Colorado men are facing murder charges in what authorities say was a plot to obtain insurance money from the father of one of them.
William Silvi was indicted on Friday in state Superior Court in Hackensack. He and brother-in-law Daniel Tunks are charged with murder, conspiracy and weapons offenses in the death of Silvi’s father, William Marcucci, in Saddle Brook last May.
Marcucci was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in his car in a restaurant parking lot.
Prosecutors say Silvi recruited Tunks to shoot Marcucci so the men could collect $750,000 in insurance.
Silvi and Tunks were arrested last August in Colorado Springs. Tunks is being held at Bergen County Jail on $1.5 million bail and Silvi is being held without bail.
Attorneys for both men say their clients are innocent.
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Information from: The Record of Bergen County,
