The Nation: Fingering a .22-Cal. Killer

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The FBI hopes to link Ullo with a third Mafia hit victim: Michael Ariola, a massage-parlor operator who was shot with a .22 in Los Angeles last year during a Mob takeover of such emporiums. His body was found in a car trunk at the Los Angeles airport. Just before his death, the FBI has learned, Ariola rejected an Ullo demand for a share of his massage-parlor revenue.

At his bail hearing, Ullo's bond was cut to $250,000, but he was told that if he managed to post the sum he would have to report to a U.S. marshal twice a day, every day. At week's end Ullo was still behind bars. That was surely a relief to Witnesses Connor, Zander and Petzold. All are in protective custody after alleged death threats by Ullo. They have more reason than most to remember that two victims of the .22-cal. hitters were FBI informants—and four others were potential prosecution witnesses.