This is what you want to start with, Hotdog-- cover story New York magazine, 29 January 1990--
https://books.google.com/books?id=YrUA24...ace&f=falseAlfa, if you've been to that part of Staten Island you'd see how the murder of Everett Hatcher is totally plausible... Steroids and cocaine are a very bad cocktail, as this and other cases demonstrate... What suspicions do you have?
What's bizarre, if you read the Al D'Arco book-- which I highly recommend, despite all caveats (it's worth reading just for Brooklyn & Prince St content alone)-- is that there was any hesitation-- other than fear-- of killing Farace.