TAMPA - Ken Larsen knew what had happened as soon as he heard the voice on the other end of the line. The words didn't matter.
A Tampa police detective, Larsen was ringing Richard Cloud, who had just recently been fired as head of the police narcotics squad. But the voice wasn't Cloud's. Larsen was on the line with another investigator.
"It wasn't just that it was a homicide detective," Larsen recalled. "It was one Richard did not like and would never have invited into his home. So I knew right then what happened."
Cloud, 34, had been murdered by the Tampa mafia.
It was Oct. 23, 1975, and the who, where and why of the notorious hit have since...