Focus, Boy, Focus
Review by Kim Cantrell
Mark Fisher was excited about a night out on the town in Manhattan with a few of his friends from Fairfield University.
After hitting a few of the bars, nineteen year old Mark ran into a girl he knew from school and she introduced him to her friend. When Mark’s group of friends was ready to move on to the next club, Mark made the fateful decision to stay with his other friend and her friend that he was really crushing on by now.
As this new group met up with another bunch, Mark met John Guica, a white boy gangster wanna be from Brooklyn and eventually the clan wound up at Guica’s home.
At Guica’s Ditmas Park house, Mark was introduced to Antonio “Tweed” Russo, a seventeen year old thug who also served as a drug dealer.
When the pot smoke cleared the morning after Guica’s sporadic party, Mark lay dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk. A little investigating would lead detectives right to the doorway of John Guica and Antonio Russo.
Hooked Up for Murder by Robert Mladinich and Michael Benson is their 2007 true crime book about the Mark Fisher case.
A story that would have best been told through a magazine article is turned into an almost 400 page book. How? Well, the authors become obsessed, it seems, with a few pretty gals who support Guica and his claims of innocence. Additionally, they spend a lot of time with John Guica’s mom, Doreen Guiliano, who went undercover to try to prove her son’s innocence.
And if the text isn’t enough to make you wonder what fantasies they were entertaining during the writing of this book, the photos of college aged girls wearing tight t-shirts and staring seductively into the camera will will give you a pretty clear perspective.
To sum it up: skip the book and read the short story instead.
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