Louis Eppolito
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Lou Louis Eppolito Eppolito
One of the detectives, Louis Eppolito, who was living in Las Vegas and wanted his assistance raising $1.5 million to produce a screenplay he had written, ''Murder in Youngstown.'' The federal trial has proved itself to be a strange, transcontinental affair -- a cross between a pulp-detective novel and ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.'' Last week, an aging marijuana dealer told how Mr. Eppolito, 57, and his former partner, Stephen Caracappa, 64, had taken part in at least eight gangland murders. Mr. Eppolito, testimony showed, holed up in his garage beside a knife collection writing screenplays, while Mr. Caracappa tried his hand at selling George Foreman punching-bag machines through the home-shopping channel QVC. Mr. Corso testified that Mr. Eppolito explained to him that he had the formula to make a movie and how it was foolproof.