Summary of Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci's Murder Machine

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#1 Dominick’s father, Anthony Santamaria, was a popular boy from the neighborhood who served in the Army Air Corps and fell in love with his mother after coming home a hero from the war. When Dominick began showing some athletic ability, his father told him that he would prefer living with him, but it was impossible so long as it meant living with Uncle Nino.

#2 Nino Gaggi, the third and last child of Angelo and Mary Gaggi, was born in 1925. He had a strong will and a lot of anger to match it. He attended public school first three grades, then transferred to the parish school behind the church across from his home.

#3 Nino was raised in the mob-run neighborhood of Alphabet City. He developed a deep resentment towards the police, and he often mimicked the gangsters he saw on the street. He wanted to be like Frank Scalise and die on the street with a gun in his hand.

#4 Nino was not like his siblings, who had tried to go to high school. He had tried to enlist in the Army in 1942, but was rejected because he was nearsighted. He then worked for a truck dock in Brooklyn, and within hardly any time, he was a supervisor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822520981

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#1

Dominick’s father, Anthony Santamaria, was a popular boy from the neighborhood who served in the Army Air Corps and fell in love with his mother after coming home a hero from the war. When Dominick began showing some athletic ability, his father told him that he would prefer living with him, but it was impossible so long as it meant living with Uncle Nino.

#2

Nino Gaggi, the third and last child of Angelo and Mary Gaggi, was born in 1925. He had a strong will and a lot of anger to match it. He attended public school first three grades, then transferred to the parish school behind the church across from his home.

#3

Nino was raised in the mob-run neighborhood of Alphabet City. He developed a deep resentment towards the police, and he often mimicked the gangsters he saw on the street. He wanted to be like Frank Scalise and die on the street with a gun in his hand.

#4

Nino was not like his siblings, who had tried to go to high school. He had tried to enlist in the Army in 1942, but was rejected because he was nearsighted. He then worked for a truck dock in Brooklyn, and within hardly any time, he was a supervisor.

#5

Nino developed a lifelong interest in the money to be made in the automobile business, and asked Anthony to help stage a phony car accident so that Nino could defraud an insurance company. Anthony refused, and Nino began complaining that Anthony was a freeloader who abused Marie.

#6

Nino was different from other men. He was left to learn about life and the world by osmosis. He was never taught why he was different, only that he should keep his mouth shut.

#7

Nino took a vow to love and honor Rose Mary Pezzella, a stunning blond telephone operator whom he married shortly before his twenty-ninth birthday. They had a son, who was born a year later. By appearances, Nino was following his father into the meat business, but he also was top aide to Carlo Gambino, who ran Scalise family business in Brooklyn.

#8

When Dominick was elected class president in 1957, his mother had him tell the teacher he could not do it. His evasiveness was a result of the lessons he received at home. He never made the connection between his surname, Santamaria, and the Feast of Assumption, when Mary was said to have been assumed from earth straight to heaven.

#9

In June 1957, a man named Frank Scalise was shot four times in the Bronx. The next day, Dominick’s family went to the wake in his honor, where they learned that he had been collecting pictures of himself vacationing with Lucky Luciano, the former leader of the American Mafia.

#10

Nino’s life was about to change drastically. In October 1960, a lawyer for a gangster named Vincent Squillante told newspaper reporters that his client was missing. Nino and his accomplices took the body to the basement of a building on Tenth Street in Alphabet City, Nino’s old neighborhood. There, in the building’s furnace, they cremated the man who killed their childhood hero.

#11

The Four Directions, a group of teenage boys, were trying to become famous by singing songs that sounded like black music. They eventually got a record deal and recorded a song that was a knockoff of a Tchaikovsky piano concerto.

#12

The Four Directions were a group that was extremely talented, but they could not get past the fact that they were just a warmup act for the more popular Italian-American singers in the label, the Four Seasons. They