When questioned if he asked his uncle if he killed Aratiko, Scarsella said, I don't remember. Maybe I don't want to remember. I was prepared to go as far as I could with the case, and if Niki killed him, I had to lock him up. I don't think Niki would have had a problem with that, he continued. The motive was that Hiratchko had turned Niki's daughter onto drugs