Murder Machine: A True Story Term Paper

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In addition to murdering on the unquestioned orders of superiors, murder was also used as a tool for taking over rival businesses, sometimes, by starting unfounded rumors that a competitor was cooperating with authorities, or even that he had insulted the honor of a boss behind his back. Once the boss sanctioned the "hit" whoever started the rumor had received a green light to eliminate his competition. According to the strict hierarchical rules, murdering another "made" member of the organization would likely result in an order to kill the offender, more to reinforce the expected chain of command than out of any sense of "justice" or anything else.

Montiglio, who served in Vietnam as a Green Beret, later worked for his uncle, "Nino" Gaggi, collecting proceeds from his gambling and loan sharking operations and filling the role of driver and bodyguard. He describes an environment where members of the organization, ("wiseguys"), preyed on anyone not in the organization, extorting "protection" fees from honest business owners and routinely using violence to collect ridiculous interest payments or "vig" from gambling debts. Loans were made with the specific intention of bleeding interest fees indefinitely, rather than with any expectation of repayment of the principal.

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Most memorable to readers unfamiliar with the extensive violence and utter disregard for human life displayed by the DeMeo crew is the method used to gett rid of their victims' bodies. Montiglio describes the evolution of the so- called "Gemini Method" of dismembering bodies above DeMeo's Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn. After shooting them in the head, the preferred method started by wrapping a towel around the head to minimize the amount of blood to be cleaned.

Immediately thereafter, a knife would be plunged into the heart to stop it from pumping, after which the body would be hung upside down over a bathtub to drain the blood. The rest of the procedure involved dismembering, in a manner that DeMeao described as just like taking apart a deer after hunting.

Ultimately, Murder Machine is more about the strange code of underworld values and the evolution of the wiseguy lifestyle than it is about the gory details of the crimes themselves. The retrospective provided by Montiglio serves as more of a warning to any prospective organized crime hopefuls than a glorification of the strange and dangerous world that was once….....

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