Mafia Cops' may have known about additional mob murders

Prosecutors are expecting to use evidence of at least a half dozen additional gangland killings in the upcoming trial of the "Mafia Cops," according to court documents and sources familiar with the case.

The mob murders, which occurred from 1987 to 1991, are in addition to the nine homicides charged against former NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa.Both defendants were arrested in March and charged with acting as spies and hit men for factions of the Lucchese crime family. They have maintained their innocence and are free on $5 million bail each, but are under house arrest as they await a Feb. 6 trial.

Eppolito, 56, and Caracappa, 63, have not been charged in the additional murders, and sources familiar with the case said they were unlikely to be.

But it appears federal prosecutors in Brooklyn may try to show that the former detectives uncovered information about the homicide victims before each died, according to a source familiar with the case who asked not to be identified.