A 25-year-old party boy with a criminal past has been charged with the murder of Joseph Comunale, whose body was found in a shallow grave in New Jersey.
James Rackover is accused of killing 26-year-old Comunale over the weekend in his apartment in Manhattan.
James Rackover describes himself on Facebook as Broker at Lloyd's of London who studied at Florida State University , but the real story of who he is may be quite different. He was born James Beaudoin in Florida, a felon with quite a rap sheet. He has multiple priors for burglary, armed robbery, and drug possession. After serving a 6 year stint for a 2009 robbery arrest, the freshly released, Beaudoin allegedly met celebrity New York jeweler Jeffrey Rackover at a health club. Subsequently he moved to New York, moved into Rackover's super luxury apartment on the East side. Later James Beaudoin reinvented himself with a name change, taking on Rackover's name.
Thursday, James 'Beaudoin' Rackover wa arrested and charged with the murder of Joseph Comunale. His pal Lawrence Dilione, 28, of Jersey City, New Jersey has also been charged with murder.
The two men are facing charged of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a human corpse after they allegedly stabbed Comunale 15 times and then tried to burn his body with gasoline on Sunday.
Dilione is also facing an additional charge for hindering prosecution. Police sources were quoted as saying that Rackover's blood splattered apartment 'yielded a mountain of damning evidence'. NYPD investigators even found bleach that appeared to have been used to clean the scene.
Lawrence Dilione, 28, of Jersey City, New Jersey has also been charged with murder.
Dilione is also facing an additional charge for hindering prosecution.
The walls in Rackover's apartment were splattered with blood according to police, who also found bleach that appeared to have been used to clean the scene.