An alternative account of this multiple murder was supplied by Piera Lo Verso. Her husband, who was among those killed, had stopped buying horses through a dealer protected by the Catania family and had gone straight to the supplier in Apulia (L'Ora and Giornale di Sicilia, October 22, 1986; Puglisi 1990: 89ff.).

XREF: Connects to patterns of mafia economic control and extralegal violence as social enforcement mechanisms.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 1006