What Happened in Apartment 4C?

On a Saturday night in November 2016, 26-year-old Joey Commisso from Stamford, Connecticut, headed into Manhattan for a night out at the Gilded Lily club. An outgoing athlete and sales associate at his father's security firm, Joey left friends outside the club around 3:30 a.m. with two men he'd just met—Larry DeLeon and James Rackover—and three women, heading to Rackover's luxury apartment at 418 East 59th Street in Sutton Place, Apartment 4C. He left his phone with a friend, planning to retrieve it later. By Sunday afternoon, no one had heard from him, sparking worry among his tight-knit circle of friends and family.

Friends' Social Media Hunt Leads to Clues

Joey's friends mobilized quickly, using Instagram's location tags from the Gilded Lily to scan recent posts. Max Branchinelli spotted a photo of one of the women Joey had been seen with, confirming she'd attended the afterparty. She said Joey and DeLeon walked her and her friends to an Uber, appearing fine. But DeLeon told Branchinelli that Joey had left with the women. Discrepancies mounted as Joey's father, Pat Commisso, a former Bronx kid who'd built and sold a security firm for over $400 million, couldn't reach his daily-contact son. Pat filed a missing person's report Monday morning with Stamford and NYPD's 17th Precinct.