Marlene K. Elias was Carl Elias' mother who was murdered by a henchman of her lover, Gianni Moretti. She was killed four years after Carl's birth. Marlene worked as a cocktail waitress in a club owned by Gianni Moretti. They started having an affair when eventually she wanted him to dump his wife for her. Moretti sent Vincent DeLuca, one of his enforcers with orders to shut her up. DeLuca stabbed her multiple times in the back with a kitchen knife while her son was outside playing. He was the one who found her dead body. (“The Fix”)