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Police detectives in New Jersey could hardly believe their ears. A mobster hit man named Joseph Rodriguez was spilling detail after gory detail about the 1972 slaying of Mafia Boss Emmanuel ("Nello") Cammarata. Rodriguez, 32, fearful that a contract was out for his own head, hoped for police protection by implicating himself and a New Jersey father and son in the killing. Rodriguez described with professional precision how the son, deftly disguised as a jogger, took aim at Cammarata as he was walking away from a North Miami bistro and drilled him with eight rounds from a .30-cal. carbine...
Soon it was the turn of Miami homicide detectives not to believe their ears. They rushed north last October to hear the confession, then returned south seeking authority to bring Rodriguez back to Miami. Only then did Florida authorities discover an astonishing obstacle: because of a five-month loophole in state law during 1972, the murderers cannot be prosecuted. The case has now become a public controversy, with State Attorney General Robert Shevin urging Miami to attempt to prosecute anyway, the court ruling notwithstanding...
...more confessions from murderers who committed their crimes in the "holiday" period, Miami Homicide Lieut. Gary Minium, who has the Cammarata case, says he would politely thank the killer, bid him goodbye and move the case records from unsolved to solved. Meanwhile, police are holding Rodriguez in protective custody. Somebody may want him-including the Mafia...
...Bobby Murcer, Johnny Bench, A1 Oliver, Aurelio Rodriguez...
...Laing is magnificent. Glenn Berenbeim's set is amazingly versatile and visually amazing. At times the tech is too much stronger than the acting it supports; the moving platform upstages the court as much as their ornate boxes dwarf them. The costumes, designed by Berenbeim and executed by Lynn Rodriguez, are beautifully distinct and salvage a few scenes; without the gaudy accoutrements of their offices, the court characters would be a homogenous disaster. The tech as a whole bypasses the usual primitive motifs seen in The Blacks and opts instead for the decadent absurdity of modern western taste. Ying...