Meet the Forrest Gump of Mob Hits
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Not that anyone has taken a poll, but the most storied mob hits of the past 30 years, hands down, were the rub outs of a Teamsters ex-president, Jimmy Hoffa; a Mafia boss, Big Paul Castellano; and a cigar-chomping Bonanno gangster, Carmine “Lilo” Galante. A photo of the murdered Galante – his stogie still clenched in his teeth – is so perfectly Mafia-esque that one New York newspaper ran it again this week.
Bearing that in mind, consider the following scenario: A monstrous hulk of a man, who has never been linked to any of the slayings or any of the many well-known suspects, claims to have been at the scene of all three murders, saying he inflicted the fatal blows to Hoffa, Galante, and Big Paul’s bodyguard, Thomas Billotti.
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