"They were laughing so hard that I lied to him. I didn't like John, anyway," Calo said.
Majors picked up Mancini and brought him back to Michelina's.
Majors, Calo and Mancini went for a drive. Calo was driving with Mancini in the front seat next to him. Majors was in the back.
Majors struck Mancini on the head and then put handcuffs on him.
"We took Carefree Highway and went towards Horseshoe Lake," Calo said. "When we got there, a hole was already dug."
"Who dug the hole?" Parker asked.
"I did, ma'am," Calo said.
"How much before?"
"Maybe a week before. I never thought he was going to kill him. Majors shot one shot and didn't hit him.
"Maybe five seconds later, he shot three more times and Mancini fell down and pulled the antenna off the car. The first thing Majors did was to pick up all the shells from the bullets. I pulled the body of Mancini in the hole.
"I know he was going to die. But it really surprised me because he killed him cold-blooded, right there."
"What did you receive of value from the death of John Mancini?" Parker asked.
"Nothing, ma'am, nothing. Just two thousand dollars a week."
"That was for your participation in drugs, correct?"
"That's correct, ma'am," Calo said.
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@body:The murder of the Lathams was the most difficult for Calo, he told police. The Lathams had been his friends. They had brought him into Michelina's restaurant.
In their 60s, they were under the impression that Calo was going to buy the restaurant from them for $100,000.
Calo says Sbrocca promised to give him the money. But Sbrocca told him to get Majors to kill them and take the restaurant. And that's the way it worked out.
The Lathams were killed on December 2, set up by Calo, who told them he was going to bring $100,000 to their house to pay for the restaurant. Instead, Majors was sent to their home. Calo had driven Majors to the site the night before so he would know where he had to go.
"He was going to rob them and scare them off," Calo told Parker.
"And did you know that he had a gun with him when he went down there?" Parker asked.
"Oh, yes, ma'am, he always had three guns with him."
Majors killed the Lathams in cold blood. But Mrs. Latham managed to leave a message that exposed her killers.
On a blood-soaked magazine later found under her body, Mrs. Latham had written: "Joe Calo had us killed. Get Joe Calo. His painter friend did it."
Majors, in addition to being a hit man, also was the man who did all of Calo's restaurant painting.
At just about this time, Majors' wife made the following entry in her diary:
"I think it is totally ridiculous. Jim is just trying to be a copy of Joe Calo. He even wants to drive a car like Joe drives. I wonder when he will dye his hair black, develop an accent and go to Italy . . . Joe Calo has become the center of his existence . . . all I have gotten in the eight years of this marriage is a knife in the back.
