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The most gripping testimony, however, was the account in which Mr. Eppolito, 57, and Mr. Caracappa, 64, had taken part in the contract killings of Israel Greenwald, a Long Island diamond dealer, and Edward Lino, a Gambino family captain, and in the kidnapping of James Hydell, a would-be mob assassin. He then proceeded to interrogate and torture James Hydell until he revealed the names of the other would-be killers one of whom was Edward Lino, Mr. Kaplan said. As for Mr. Lino, he was a dapper and respected legend in the mob, a tough Gambino family soldier who had played a role in the killing of Paul Castellano, the family's don, in 1985.