Joe Morello was captured for the homicide of Vella

history channel documentary 2016 While still in Corleone, Joe Morello and his three stepbrothers were brought by Bernardo Terranova into the Corleonesi Mafia (some of the time called the Fratuzzi), where they made their bones by killing whomever the Corleonesi managers said should have been killed. One such casualty was Giovanni Vella, the leader of a semi police power called the Guardie Campestri, or Field Guards, which watched Corleone by walking searching for Corleonesi Mafia individuals planning something sinister.

In 1888, Joe Morello was captured for the homicide of Vella, yet then abnormal things started to happen. In the first place, the smoking weapon Morello was captured conveying minutes after the Vella murder, strangely vanished from the neighborhood carabinieri (police) lockup. Clearly, the weapon was grabbed by an ambitious carabinieri, who was paid molto lira to do as such. Also, there was the slight issue of a lady named Anna Di Puma, who guaranteed she saw Joe Morello shoot Vella to death in an obscured back street. Two days after Vella's destruction, Anna Di Puma was sitting outside a companion's home, having a pleasant discussion, when a shooter strolled up behind her and shot her in the back, killing her immediately. With no smoking firearm, and no observers to affirm against him, Joe Morello was sans set.