Death By Distance: Leaving No Seed Behind
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
They called them gli scappati “the runaways,” hiding in Venezuela or finding refuge in Miami, drifting through New York, even in the lemon orchards of Monreale. Where they really ended up was New Jersey. At least the ones that were the major targets. The chosen ones that survived the matanza, the slaughter that opened the great Mafia war of the early 1980s in Sicily.
To be an Inzerillo was a stigmata in the eyes of the Corleonesi, the mob that was taking over the honored society. Short and squat of stature, Salvatore Riina, u curtu, their boss, had laid down his command: “Not so much as a seed must be left of these Inzerillos.”
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