Napoli-Borowitz Murders

The Napoli-Borowitz Murders were two torture homicides committed by the Torelli crime family in January, 1972. The victims include mobster Frank Napoli, and lawyer Walter Borowitz. The murders were allegedly comitted by Francis Buonocore and Salvatore Iannello, on the orders of James Torelli.
== History ==
Frank Napoli met Walter Borowitz in 1970.
In late-1970, Frank Napoli invested approximately $100,000 in an illegal casino racket run by the Jewish Mafia in northern New Jersey, alongside lawyer Walter Borowitz, who vouched for the racket's stability. When the racket was torn apart by federal authorities, Napoli and Borowitz turned to James Torelli for a loan of approximately $60,000. They received the loan with a 25% interest rate.
Over the course of 1971, Napoli failed to make payments to Torelli, who eventually staged a mock execution on Napoli, but eventually lowered the interest rate to around 15%.
In January 1972, Napoli refused to make any more payments and went into hiding. On January 10, Borowitz was called to lunch with several members of the Jewish Mafia, who supposedly beat Borowitz unconscious in an alleyway in Manhattan, New York, before eventually transporting him in the back of a car to a warehouse in East Harlem. 
Napoli was spotted by a Torelli associate in the Lower East Side on January 11. According to sources close to his murder, he was forced into a car and taken to the same warehouse in East Harlem. It is unknown if Borowitz was alive at the time of Napoli's arrival.
Napoli was tortured and killed by January 13. It is believed the same was done to Borowitz.
Napoli was found dead in the trunk of a car on the bank of the East River in New York, on January 13. His tongue had been removed, and coins were stuffed in his mouth. Several of his bones were broken, his anal cavity was scarred with what appeared to be a meat hook, and he suffered internal bleeding premortem. 
The body of Walter Borowitz was never recovered, but investigators theorize pieces of him were deposited in landfills across New York City and Newark.
Several reliable informants from East Harlem claimed the perpetrators behind his death were Francis Buonocore and Salvatore Iannello.
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