plawrence...

MAYBE they were garroted, could be. Though if there was ever any reference to that in the film it's just another thing that's gotten past me over all these years.

Though if they were, then my question would be why would there be two guys waiting to garrot two other guys who were hired to assasinate Don Corleone. And where would THOSE two guys flee to, now that the compound would most certainly be secured, locked down and almost impossible to escape from?

And also that would squish the theory that Fredo may have killed them to cover his own sorry ass. I can barely picture him shooting these guys, let alone garroting them which of course he'd have to do one at a time and then dump the bodies into a drainage ditch...just picturing this makes me

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