Mafia murders are sometimes staged to conceal their organized origin

Evidence

Measures can even be taken to deal with sexual perversion. The brother-in-law of a family member was killed, with his relative’s blessing, “because he was a dissolute man.’ A Peeping Tom, he was stabbed to death in a wood where lovers went for privacy. The murder was staged to look like the work of an outraged couple (AC: I, 180). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 424

Categorization

• QUESTION: Staging a murder to look accidental or personal is an effort to conceal mafia authorship — worth noting how this interacts with the reputation-signaling function of mafia violence. If violence is meant to signal deterrence, why conceal it?