It’s not like I wasn’t concerned about being told not to make a report and hand Rocco’s case to agents who work in that area.
Why was I called to find Rocco? Who called? And what about Don Ferraza’s wife’s murder?
At the FBI, we know many people end up missing or dead in the mafia at the hands of others in organized crime, but we never have enough to arrest anyone. Is that why these cases were dropped?
But Dom's words keep circling in my mind, which is what he wanted. He was manipulating me. Wanting me to doubt myself and those I work with.
I give myself a shake and head to the bathroom. I take a long shower, trying to wash away the feeling of Dom's hands on my skin. It doesn’t work.
But I press on, putting on my pajamas, brushing my teeth, taking my birth control pill as I do like clockwork every night, and follow it up with my antibiotic, noting I have five more days on the prescription.
I grab my tablet, and once in bed, I pull up the case files, scrolling through trying to view them with new eyes. The search warrants that yielded nothing.
The surveillance that went nowhere.
Four years of investigation with zero progress. It's like Dom is always one step ahead... or someone is feeding him information.
My stomach knots. What if Dom is right about corruption within the FBI?
But if someone is working for him, he wouldn’t chastise me for corruption, would he?
I open a secure browser and search for information on Mrs. Ferraza's murder.
She was killed in broad daylight as she went to do some shopping.
The file focuses on Marco Calabresi as being behind the killing, but why would a don of La Corona kill the wife of another don?
The file says an informant, Ernie Abruzzo, was working to arrange a meeting between Mrs. Ferraza and my boss, Agent Blackwood.
Is that why she was killed? Because she was going to share mafia secrets?
It doesn’t make sense why Calabresi would kill her unless Don Ferraza asked him to.
Except, Dom said two informants were behind her death. Is he just playing me? Trying to distract me?
I look up Ernie Abruzzo, who was apparently a mafia-wannabe but never made. He turned up dead from a drug overdose.
While not proven, the file suggests that Don Ferraza may have been behind the death as drug ODs were his MO.
The file notes that Ernie’s brother, Salvatore, worked for Marco Calabresi.
It also says that he hasn’t been seen for at least three years and is presumed dead.
I think back to when Blackwood asked me to assist him on the case. He’d been talking with Don Ferraza’s daughter, Isabella.
If I remember correctly, he’d been using her mother’s murder as the way to connect with her, promising her he’d get her answers, but he needed her help.
He’d asked me to approach her to give her a new phone after La Corona forced her to marry Marco Calabresi’s enforcer, Roman Ginetti.
I’d been eager to work with him as even then I felt like I was hitting a brick wall in the Vitale case.
So I agreed, approaching her in a fabric shop while Roman was taking a call. I remember seeing a woman who was terrified.
Later, I came across Mrs. Ferraza’s notebook in the evidence and thought I could use it to gain Isabella’s trust and yes, cooperation to help me learn more about Dominic Vitale.
Boy, did that backfire.
She called me out for using her mother’s death, her grief to turn on her family.
