You're taking me wrong, Dwalin. I was being sarcastic. DiLapi didn't "change." He didn't want to "reinvent" himself. He ran away because he was scared.
Well, when you choose that life---and HE DID choose that life---you don't run away and hide. Period.
Sorry then, I misunderstood. It's just sometimes it happens; just in the Irkutsk region in Siberia in Russia where I lived, there was a case when a gangster wanted out of the rackets to start a family; they tracked him down and killed him mutilating him with a screw-driver as a symbolic gesture of despising. I thought DiLapi's case was similar. Dmitriy Poroshin and Vyacheslav Gamernik were the ones who killed him I think (that's the thief-in-law Vladimir Tiurin's gang).