Originally Posted By: PasqualBruno
They did it to majorly insult the Corleone family that's why the mutailated the body of Santino


agree. insult on top of death..
there's a line in goodfellas "they even shot tommy in the face so his family couldn't give him an open casket wake/funeral"

Whatever homage that FFC is paying, the book has Sonny's body being described as disfigured....even the mortician is shocked when he sees the body and you figure that he's seen accident victims,etc.