Because family is at the heart of the Mafia
Several families of Prohibition-era bootleggers in Rockford, Illinois were related through marriage and their Sicilian origins. When a suitor to one of the Domino girls wouldn't take no for an answer, he resorted to an Old World practice: kidnapping.
The father of two notorious gangsters from West Springfield, Massachusetts, was a co-founder of the Monte Carlo Cafe, and a prolific Prohibition-era bootlegger.
By most accounts, Mafia associate and vineyardist Frank Borgia was last seen early in December 1951.
