His cremated remains were interred in his wife's plot on March 5, 1998 at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, N.Y.
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Deceased Name: STANLEY - Mr. Christopher E. Balestrero, 88, died Friday, February 27, 1998.
Charlotte Observer (NC) (Published as Charlotte Observer, The (NC)) - March 3, 1998
Edition: ONE-3Section: METROPage: 5CColumn: Death Notices
Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at St. Dorothy's Catholic Church with Father Hokinson officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Long Island, NY. The family will receive friends following the service.
Mr. Balestrero was born in New York City, NY and was a musician. He was the son of the late Peter and Rosa Cereghino Balestrero .
Survivors are two sons, Gregory Balestrero of Alexandria, VA, Robert Balestrero of Columbia, SC; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to St. Dorothy's Catholic Church, 148 St. Dorothy's Lane, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton, is serving the family.∼Manny Balestrero worked as a musician in the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City. Manny and Rose, his wife,had very little money. When Rose needs some dental work, Manny attempted to borrow on her insurance policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he bore a resemblance to an armed robber who had held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny was identified by several witnesses and, when providing a handwriting sample, he nervously misspells a word that was also misspelled on the robbery note. He was arrested and charged with the crime.
His defense attorney, Frank O'Connor, builds a case based on mistaken identity. At the time of the first hold-up Manny was away on vacation with his family. At the time of the second hold-up, Manny had a swollen jaw - a fact which the insurance-office employee would have noticed if Manny had been the robber. Manny and Rose look for the three people who could have testified that he was present at the vacation hotel on the day of the hold-up, but two had died in the intervening months and the third could not be found. The stress of all this has a devastating effect on Rose who slowly descends into depression to the point where she is institutionalized.
During the trial a juror, bored with the minutia of one witness's testimony, makes a remark which prompts the judge to grant a mistrial. While Manny is awaiting re-trial the real robber is arrested in the act of robbing a grocery store and Manny is exonerated. He visits Rose at the sanatorium to tell her the good news but she remains in an apathetic state. Two years later Rose fully recovered and the family moved to Florida.
Part of the real story - Fred
My life did not start over again when I was cleared, said Balestrero, who moved his family to Florida after his wife's release. I figured if we're going to really get a fresh start, everythings got to be different. We left our friends, our relatives, our home, our furniture everything.
Manny sued the city and insurance company for $500,000 for false arrest and settled out of court for $7,000. He sold the film rights to his story for $22,000 but told The Post that not much was left after repaying loans for the cost of Rose's institutionalization. Manny, who went back to work as a musician and loved the Hitchcock movie, died in a nursing home in 1998. But Rose, who died 14 years earlier, never fully recovered (contrary to a written coda at the end of The Wrong Man).
The intersection of 73rd Street and 41st Avenue near the old family home in Jackson Heights was renamed Manny The Wrong Man Balestrero Way.
Lou Lumenick - NY Post
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Deceased Name: STANLEY - Mr. Christopher E. Balestrero, 88, died Friday, February 27, 1998.
Charlotte Observer (NC) (Published as Charlotte Observer, The (NC)) - March 3, 1998
Edition: ONE-3Section: METROPage: 5CColumn: Death Notices
Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at St. Dorothy's Catholic Church with Father Hokinson officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Long Island, NY. The family will receive friends following the service.
Mr. Balestrero was born in New York City, NY and was a musician. He was the son of the late Peter and Rosa Cereghino Balestrero .
Survivors are two sons, Gregory Balestrero of Alexandria, VA, Robert Balestrero of Columbia, SC; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to St. Dorothy's Catholic Church, 148 St. Dorothy's Lane, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton, is serving the family.∼Manny Balestrero worked as a musician in the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City. Manny and Rose, his wife,had very little money. When Rose needs some dental work, Manny attempted to borrow on her insurance policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he bore a resemblance to an armed robber who had held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny was identified by several witnesses and, when providing a handwriting sample, he nervously misspells a word that was also misspelled on the robbery note. He was arrested and charged with the crime.
His defense attorney, Frank O'Connor, builds a case based on mistaken identity. At the time of the first hold-up Manny was away on vacation with his family. At the time of the second hold-up, Manny had a swollen jaw - a fact which the insurance-office employee would have noticed if Manny had been the robber. Manny and Rose look for the three people who could have testified that he was present at the vacation hotel on the day of the hold-up, but two had died in the intervening months and the third could not be found. The stress of all this has a devastating effect on Rose who slowly descends into depression to the point where she is institutionalized.
During the trial a juror, bored with the minutia of one witness's testimony, makes a remark which prompts the judge to grant a mistrial. While Manny is awaiting re-trial the real robber is arrested in the act of robbing a grocery store and Manny is exonerated. He visits Rose at the sanatorium to tell her the good news but she remains in an apathetic state. Two years later Rose fully recovered and the family moved to Florida.
Part of the real story - Fred
My life did not start over again when I was cleared, said Balestrero, who moved his family to Florida after his wife's release. I figured if we're going to really get a fresh start, everythings got to be different. We left our friends, our relatives, our home, our furniture everything.
Manny sued the city and insurance company for $500,000 for false arrest and settled out of court for $7,000. He sold the film rights to his story for $22,000 but told The Post that not much was left after repaying loans for the cost of Rose's institutionalization. Manny, who went back to work as a musician and loved the Hitchcock movie, died in a nursing home in 1998. But Rose, who died 14 years earlier, never fully recovered (contrary to a written coda at the end of The Wrong Man).
The intersection of 73rd Street and 41st Avenue near the old family home in Jackson Heights was renamed Manny The Wrong Man Balestrero Way.
Lou Lumenick - NY Post
His cremated remains were interred in his wife's plot on March 5, 1998 at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, N.Y.
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Deceased Name: STANLEY - Mr. Christopher E. Balestrero, 88, died Friday, February 27, 1998.
Charlotte Observer (NC) (Published as Charlotte Observer, The (NC)) - March 3, 1998
Edition: ONE-3Section: METROPage: 5CColumn: Death Notices
Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at St. Dorothy's Catholic Church with Father Hokinson officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Long Island, NY. The family will receive friends following the service.
Mr. Balestrero was born in New York City, NY and was a musician. He was the son of the late Peter and Rosa Cereghino Balestrero .
Survivors are two sons, Gregory Balestrero of Alexandria, VA, Robert Balestrero of Columbia, SC; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to St. Dorothy's Catholic Church, 148 St. Dorothy's Lane, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton, is serving the family.∼Manny Balestrero worked as a musician in the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City. Manny and Rose, his wife,had very little money. When Rose needs some dental work, Manny attempted to borrow on her insurance policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he bore a resemblance to an armed robber who had held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny was identified by several witnesses and, when providing a handwriting sample, he nervously misspells a word that was also misspelled on the robbery note. He was arrested and charged with the crime.
His defense attorney, Frank O'Connor, builds a case based on mistaken identity. At the time of the first hold-up Manny was away on vacation with his family. At the time of the second hold-up, Manny had a swollen jaw - a fact which the insurance-office employee would have noticed if Manny had been the robber. Manny and Rose look for the three people who could have testified that he was present at the vacation hotel on the day of the hold-up, but two had died in the intervening months and the third could not be found. The stress of all this has a devastating effect on Rose who slowly descends into depression to the point where she is institutionalized.
During the trial a juror, bored with the minutia of one witness's testimony, makes a remark which prompts the judge to grant a mistrial. While Manny is awaiting re-trial the real robber is arrested in the act of robbing a grocery store and Manny is exonerated. He visits Rose at the sanatorium to tell her the good news but she remains in an apathetic state. Two years later Rose fully recovered and the family moved to Florida.
Part of the real story - Fred
My life did not start over again when I was cleared, said Balestrero, who moved his family to Florida after his wife's release. I figured if we're going to really get a fresh start, everythings got to be different. We left our friends, our relatives, our home, our furniture everything.
Manny sued the city and insurance company for $500,000 for false arrest and settled out of court for $7,000. He sold the film rights to his story for $22,000 but told The Post that not much was left after repaying loans for the cost of Rose's institutionalization. Manny, who went back to work as a musician and loved the Hitchcock movie, died in a nursing home in 1998. But Rose, who died 14 years earlier, never fully recovered (contrary to a written coda at the end of The Wrong Man).
The intersection of 73rd Street and 41st Avenue near the old family home in Jackson Heights was renamed Manny The Wrong Man Balestrero Way.
Lou Lumenick - NY Post
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Deceased Name: STANLEY - Mr. Christopher E. Balestrero, 88, died Friday, February 27, 1998.
Charlotte Observer (NC) (Published as Charlotte Observer, The (NC)) - March 3, 1998
Edition: ONE-3Section: METROPage: 5CColumn: Death Notices
Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at St. Dorothy's Catholic Church with Father Hokinson officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Long Island, NY. The family will receive friends following the service.
Mr. Balestrero was born in New York City, NY and was a musician. He was the son of the late Peter and Rosa Cereghino Balestrero .
Survivors are two sons, Gregory Balestrero of Alexandria, VA, Robert Balestrero of Columbia, SC; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to St. Dorothy's Catholic Church, 148 St. Dorothy's Lane, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton, is serving the family.∼Manny Balestrero worked as a musician in the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City. Manny and Rose, his wife,had very little money. When Rose needs some dental work, Manny attempted to borrow on her insurance policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he bore a resemblance to an armed robber who had held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny was identified by several witnesses and, when providing a handwriting sample, he nervously misspells a word that was also misspelled on the robbery note. He was arrested and charged with the crime.
His defense attorney, Frank O'Connor, builds a case based on mistaken identity. At the time of the first hold-up Manny was away on vacation with his family. At the time of the second hold-up, Manny had a swollen jaw - a fact which the insurance-office employee would have noticed if Manny had been the robber. Manny and Rose look for the three people who could have testified that he was present at the vacation hotel on the day of the hold-up, but two had died in the intervening months and the third could not be found. The stress of all this has a devastating effect on Rose who slowly descends into depression to the point where she is institutionalized.
During the trial a juror, bored with the minutia of one witness's testimony, makes a remark which prompts the judge to grant a mistrial. While Manny is awaiting re-trial the real robber is arrested in the act of robbing a grocery store and Manny is exonerated. He visits Rose at the sanatorium to tell her the good news but she remains in an apathetic state. Two years later Rose fully recovered and the family moved to Florida.
Part of the real story - Fred
My life did not start over again when I was cleared, said Balestrero, who moved his family to Florida after his wife's release. I figured if we're going to really get a fresh start, everythings got to be different. We left our friends, our relatives, our home, our furniture everything.
Manny sued the city and insurance company for $500,000 for false arrest and settled out of court for $7,000. He sold the film rights to his story for $22,000 but told The Post that not much was left after repaying loans for the cost of Rose's institutionalization. Manny, who went back to work as a musician and loved the Hitchcock movie, died in a nursing home in 1998. But Rose, who died 14 years earlier, never fully recovered (contrary to a written coda at the end of The Wrong Man).
The intersection of 73rd Street and 41st Avenue near the old family home in Jackson Heights was renamed Manny The Wrong Man Balestrero Way.
Lou Lumenick - NY Post
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