In 1979, police said, Ryan, then 17, Robert Brensic, 17, Peter Quartararo, 15, and Michael Quartararo, 14, killed Pius near a Smithtown elementary school because they thought he would turn them in ...

In 1979, James Burke became a teenage witness in one of Long Island's most notorious murder cases: the suffocation of 13-year-old John Pius in Smithtown. The experience helped focus him on a ...

His case was highlighted in Netflix's recent docuseries, ... John Pius Jr. was a young boy from Smithtown, Long Island, born on August 1, 1965, to parents John Sr. and Barbara Pius.