Mark McGuire hit two home runs last night. Karl Malone dropped in 30 points. Terrell Davis scored three touchdowns. Two Gambino Crime Family members were shot dead. Sometimes that's all the information you get.
Few writers get to tell about mob hits made on members of their own family.
One writer who had this tragic opportunity was Louie Eppolito. Detective Louie Eppolito of the New York City Police Department. Jimmy Eppolito was a bookmaker in Nino Gaggi's Bath Beach - Bensonhurst crew. Eppolito's son, Jimmy, Jr., known as Jim-Jim, had recently lost several thousand dollars in a crooked cocaine deal with members of the Roy DeMeo crew. DeMeo, and later Gaggi, would accuse the younger Eppolito of lying and of being a police informant.