The Layla montage showed bodies. It never showed the list. Eight names. Six months. Each one killed for a specific reason the movie compressed into three minutes.
Jimmy Burke didn’t panic after the Lufthansa heist. He ran a system. Stacks Edwards left the van at a fire hydrant. Martin Krugman couldn’t stop talking. Louis Cafora bought his wife a pink Cadillac. Every mistake had a consequence. Every consequence was a bullet.
The one murder that actually put Burke in prison wasn’t even about Lufthansa. It was a two hundred fifty thousand dollar cocaine scam and a frozen body in a meat truck with an address book sewn into the lining.
Goodfellas showed you the paranoia. This is the documented kill list the FBI pieced together after Henry Hill flipped in 1980.
Sources: FBI case files, Henry Hill federal testimony, court records from Burke murder conviction (1985), Nicholas Pileggi’s Wiseguy, contemporary NYPD investigation records.