NEW YORK (AP) – A veteran newspaperman who wrote one of the industry’s most famous headlines has died. Vincent Musetto was 74.
The New York Post reports Musetto’s family says he died Tuesday, three weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Musetto was a longtime news editor and film critic for the New York Post. He wrote the headline “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” It appeared on the newspaper’s front page on April 15, 1983, for a story about the killing of a bar owner who was shot and beheaded.
Musetto said in a 1987 interview with People magazine the killing and decapitation were known early in the reporting process. But staffers had to confirm the topless dancing occurred at the bar.