reliance upon the unreliable i've just gone back to reading my mob books again and once again i've found that hill for whom we are relying immensely upon the word of for this article is contradictory and confusing and unexplanatory he never provides the entire picture it wasn't until gangsters and goodfellas was released that the true reasons for billy batts' death became apparent until then under the guidance of goodfellas the film and wiseguy it was thought that only desimone's outburst was responsible