\’Headless body in topless bar\’ writer dies, was a Jersey boy

The writer of perhaps the best-known and most-cited headline in journalism has died. Vincent A. Musetto, who notoriously wrote the headline \”Headless Body in Topless Bar\” for the front page of the New York Post on April 15, 1983, died Tuesday, his former paper reported. He had turned 74 in May. Musetto had worked for The Advance in Dover and grew up in Boonton, the New York Times reports. He earned a bachelor\’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Poynter recalled several other famous headlines by Musetto over his 40-year career with The Post: \”Granny Executed in Her Pink Pajamas,\” \”Khadafy Goes Daffy\” and