Delia D'Ambra

She shared that she was extremely proud of her eldest son, Juan Jr., who was following in his father's footsteps and pursued a career as a doctor.

As far as where the murder investigation stood at that point in time, there wasn't much authorities were very proud of.

A three-part series by WFTS and coverage by the Bradenton Herald reported that none of the latent fingerprints that were found at the crime scene had been identified.

Blood was found and tested, but it was later confirmed to only belong to all the victims.

Evidence in the form of fibers had also been vacuumed off the station wagon, but it's unclear what the results of that evidence collection were or if anything pointed toward a particular suspect.

According to Annie, as far as her family was told, in 1980, the Foodway grocery store didn't have surveillance cameras at the time, or if they did, they didn't capture anything useful.

And to make matters worse, a police source told the Bradenton Herald it was undisputed that the Holmes Beach PD had not done a great job preserving the crime scene from the outset.

Now, this isn't a diss to those officers specifically.

They were up against a lot of contamination issues because so many bystanders and first responding officers had touched the Dumas station wagon, pulled Raymond and the boys' bodies out, and so on.

But something police probably could have done better was separate the individual eyewitnesses at the scene, likely so that they couldn't inadvertently influence one another's accounts of what happened.

Another potential mishap by police was that investigators failed to get ink impressions of Eric and Mark's fingerprints prior to their burials.

They also didn't fingerprint Robert Matsky before he was laid to rest, but it was reported that copies of his prints were later found on file with the military.

And Juan's had been taken when he'd immigrated from Cuba in the 1960s, but obtaining fingerprints for the boys was impossible, aside from exhuming their bodies, which did not happen.

By the time the ninth anniversary of the crime came and went, things were still at a standstill, and fewer of the victims' surviving family members opted to talk to the press about the crimes.

According to WFTS's three-part series, several years later, an investigator with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office learned that a convicted mobster named Donald Frankos had published a book about contract killings.

The novel was presented as a tell-all account of various murder-for-hire jobs that Frankos had knowledge of.

One of the stories detailed in the book was about a hitman who'd faked an injury and ended up killing a victim before riding away on a bicycle.

because that specific scenario very much mirrored the circumstances of the boat ramp murders case.

A Manatee County investigator wrote to Donald Frankos in prison, and he actually agreed to an interview.

Frankos claimed that the boat ramp killer was one of his former cellmates who'd held a high position in a drug dealing operation.