sentences:  This was invaluable to the authorities, who - like the losing clans - had little idea as to what exactly was going on with all the bloodshed.Mafiosi were obviously very secretive normally, and at the time of the Second Mafia War the authorities were at a loss to understand the exact allegiances and motives of the war.For example, when Bontade was murdered, for a short while, the police thought he had been killed as an act of treachery by Inzerillo, until he himself was killed.