by aleksandrored » Thu May 16, 2019 1:59 pm
I found this chronology in wikipedia, I decided to translate and put it here.
- 1981 - Attempted murder of Salvatore Riina, by Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981). It was in 1981 that the slaughter began. Bontate, Inzerillo, Spatola, Panno and all the mafia "old guard" met repeatedly to organize a plan to kill Totò Riina. But the leader of the Corleonesi who came to know the plan on Michele Greco's tip-off on March 11th had the boss of Casteldaccia Giuseppe "Piddu" Panno disappear. Bontate reacted by killing two men close to Riina: Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia.
11 March 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Panno, head of the Casteldaccia gang, closely linked to Stefano Bontate. Giuseppe Panno was an old head of the family of Casteldaccia and an "honorable man" of the ancient style who, disgusted by the turn of events and the barbarization of Cosa Nostra, had refused to take the place he had in the Commission "cicchitteddu" times; it is evident that his authoritative presence would have constituted a serious obstacle to the design of the Corleonesi and their allies to eliminate their adversaries. Bontate reacted by killing two men close to Riina: Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia.
11 March 1981: Murder of Giovanni Ambrogio.
1981: Double murder of Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia, two men close to Salvatore Riina.
March 23, 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Settecasi (Alessandria della Rocca, August 18, 1898 - Agrigento, March 23, 1981). Representative of the province of Agrigento.
12 April 1981: Murder of Diego Gennaro.
April 23, 1981: Murder of Stefano Bontate (Palermo, April 23, 1939 - Palermo, April 23, 1981), head of Santa Maria di Gesù.
"On April 23, 1981, the evening of his birthday, Stefano Bontade was killed in an ambush prodigy, after Pietro Lo Iacono, who had gone to his house with the excuse of giving him his best wishes, had learned from the same Bontade that he was going to the country house and, thus, he had warned Lucchese Giuseppe who was waiting in the car under the house and who, by means of of a two-way radio, he had in turn warned, the murderers crouched near the house. "The reconstruction of the murder - reported to Buscetta in Brazil by Antonino Salomone after the latter had come to Palermo to inquire about the murder itself - is the very clear demonstration of the betrayal suffered by Bontate by his own deputy (Pietro Lo Iacono) and the involvement of the whole commission (Lucchese Giuseppe belongs to the Ciaculli family).
May 11, 1981: Murder of Salvatore Inzerillo (Palermo, August 20, 1944 - Palermo, May 11, 1981), head of the Rigano Pass.
May 26, 1981: At the same time, Giuseppe Di Franco (driver of Stefano Bontate) disappeared, the brothers Angelo and
Salvatore Federico and Girolamo Teresi, deputy of Bontate, were strangled and made to disappear.
May 27, 1981: Murder of Santo Inzerillo, brother of Salvatore (1944 - 1981).
May 28, 1981: Double murder of Vincenzo and Salvatore Severino.
9 June 1981: Murder of Francesco Di Noto, regent of the Corso dei Mille family.
12 June 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Inzerillo, 17, son of Salvatore (1944 - 1981), who had said: "I will kill Riina with my own hands".
June 15, 1981: murder of Ignazio Gnoffo, loyal to Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981) and in whose family he had played for a long time before being authorized by the Commission to rebuild the Palermo Centro family.
June 25, 1981: Attempted murder of Salvatore Contorno (1946).
31 July 1981: Murder of Domenico Ingrassia.
1 August 1981: Double homicide of Giovanni Falluca and Maurizio Lo Verso.
1 August 1981: Murder of Giacomo Sparacello.
August 9, 1981: Murder of Giovanni Di Fazio.
August 18, 1981: Murder of Antonino Badalamenti. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
August 28, 1981: Murder of Gioacchino Tagliavia.
September 2, 1981: Murder of Leonardo Caruana.
6 September 1981: Murder of Orazio Fiorentino.
24 September 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Finocchiaro.
September 29, 1981: Triple murder of Calogero Pizzuto, head of the Castronovo di Sicilia, and two other people, Michele Ciminnisi and Vincenzo Romano, dead for having found themselves in the killer fire path. Pizzuto was a faithful ally of the Palermo boss Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981). The crime took place in a bar in San Giovanni Gemini, in the Agrigento region.
1 October 1981: Murder of Stefano Gallina. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
2 October 1981: Murder of Francesco Patricola.
3 October 1981: Murder of Pietro Mandalà.
October 5, 1981: Murder of Emanuele Mazzola.
9 October 1981: Murder of Antonino Vitale.
9 October 1981: Murder of Giovanni Costanzo.
October 9, 1981: Murder of Agostino Calabria.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Antonino Grado.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Francesco Mafara.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Giovanni Mafara.
November 6, 1981: Murder of Sebastiano Bosio (Palermo, August 18, 1929 - Palermo, November 6, 1981) Italian surgeon killed by the Mafia. He was killed at the time of his study, on 6 November 1981, by two hit men, shot by four bullets of a .38 caliber pistol. The reason for his killing, according to the testimony of some repents, was that Bosio would have treated superficial or at least hasty some mafia bosses rushed to him after having been victims of gunfights and of having cured criminals of the so-called faction of the losing mafia exit defeated by the second mafia war, including Totuccio Contorno. It was later discovered, thanks also to more accurate investigations, that Bosio had had a diatribe, at least by telephone, with the then medical director of the structure, Giuseppe Lima, brother of the more famous Salvo, who was killed in 1992 by the same mafia, since he promised under his command to carry out privileged operations for them. The first investigations of the investigators were almost limited, especially for the screening carried out by some members within them. From later repercussions, it was learned that some of Bosio's colleagues were friendly or even related, even to a large degree, to some leading mafia members. From the more detailed examinations, of the bullets, thanks to the new technologies, it emerged that to shoot was Antonino Madonia. Madonia was indicted in 2011, and today is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for this and a series of other mafia-style murders.
November 8th 1981: Murder of Antonino Rugnetta.
12 November 1981: Murder of Antonino Mineo.
December 25th 1981: Christmas Massacre. A killer commando, led by Giuseppe Greco "Scarpuzzedda", ambushed Bagheria against Giovanni Di Peri, head of the Villabate gang, and his deputy chief Antonino Pitarresi. Di Peri and Pitarresi, who were with their son Biagio, were chased through the streets of Bagheria and a shooting broke out, in which even a simple passer-by was killed; Di Peri and Biagio Pitarresi were killed while Antonino was loaded into a car still alive and killed in the country because the killer ammunition was over: these murders were carried out to reward Salvatore Montalto (1936 - 2012), a man of Salvatore Inzerillo who was secretly passed with the Corleonesi and now aimed to take command of the Villabate gang. In the shootout, Onofrio Valvola, a pensioner who had looked out to see what was happening, was also shot, and he would die in a pool of blood soon after.
1981: Filippo Giacalone disappears "mysteriously" even though his relatives unlikely claim to hear him by telephone, from time to time.
7 January 1982: Murder of Michele Graviano, the father of Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano, the bosses of Brancaccio: it was the beginning of the season of revenge against Riina and Provenzano, which became the new masters of Cosa Nostra.
January 8, 1982: Murder of Michel Ienna.
8 January 1982: Murder of Francesco Paolo Teresi, cousin of Girolamo Teresi and his business partner.
8 January 1982: Murder of Giovanni Di Fresco.
9 January 1982: Murder of Antonino Grado, uncle of his namesake nephew Antonino Grado.
11 January 1982: Murder of Ignazio D'Agostino.
January 14, 1982: Murder of Pietro Inzerillo, brother of Salvatore (1944 - 1981), he came to New York and, once again out of derision, the body was found in a luggage rack with dollars in the mouth and genitals.
6 February 1982: Murder of Paolo Mazzola.
8 February 1982: Murder of Antonino Inzerillo, uncle of Salvatore, the chief district of Passo di Rigano which was one of the main obstacles to the rise of the "Corleonesi" of Riina and Provenzano. Antonino Inzerillo was the victim of the "white lupara" in Brooklin.
25 February 1982: Murder of Pietro Marchese. "On 9/6/1981, in Palermo, as has been said, Franco Di Noto was killed, for a long time regent of the Corso dei Mille family and this was exactly interpreted by Giovannello Greco and Pietro Marchese as an unequivocal signal also in their comparisons, for which they rushed off with their wives and with Antonio Spica, a robber who gravitated towards Milan and was a friend of the Greco.Their escape was blocked in Zurich where they were arrested, while they were embarking on a plane bound for Brazil , because they were found in possession of banknotes from Susini and Armellini seizures and forged documents, extradited to Italy, the Greek, to whom the Milan GI granted him provisional freedom, was immediately unavailable, while the Marquis, who was translated into the Ucciardone prison because charged with the murder of Boris Giuliano, he was killed by other inmates on 25/2/1982.
12 March 1982: Murder of Francesco Di Fresco.
April 5, 1982: Murder of Francesco Mandalà.
April 15, 1982: Murder of Antonio Spica, a close friend of Giovanello Greco, kidnapped, killed and burned in a Milan dump after being released from prison.
April 15, 1982: Murder of Salvatore Spitalieri.
April 17, 1982: Murder of Salvatore Corsino.
April 26, 1982: Massacre of Via Iris.
30 April 1982: Double murder of Pio La Torre (Palermo, 24 December 1927 - Palermo, 30 April 1982) politician and trade unionist, and Rosario Di Salvo, his driver.
April 30, 1982: Double murder of Filippo and Carmelo Pedone. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
16 or 26 May 1982: Murder of Rodolfo Buscemi and Matteo Rizzuto. Buscemi and Rizzuto were taken to the death chamber by the men of Marchese, who questioned them on some questions related to the lace of the merchants of Villabate. In the room there was also the boss of Ciaculli Pino Greco Scarpuzzedda, who managed with Marquis the territory of Villabate. The fault of Buscemi was that he asked for the lace without any authorization: initially the mason lied, claiming he didn't know they were protected areas, but then he confessed and made the name of his accomplice Antonino Migliore. Both he and his brother-in-law were strangled immediately after confession. As the acid was finished, the two bodies were closed in the trunk of a stolen Fiat Ritmo, then loaded onto a boat and finally thrown at the bottom of the sea, at a point over seventy meters deep (the marine "cemetery" of the Corso family dei Mille and perhaps not the only one in the bay of Palermo), linked to two municipalities (old stone basins recovered in a public landfill).
22 May 1982: Murder of Giuseppe Mineo.
June 2, 1982: 26-year-old murder of Antonino Migliore, who resided near Piazza Scaffa, was kidnapped while he was waiting in his Fiat for Brancaccio's level crossing to be opened: he was taken to a villa protected by a garden, not far from Via Giafar , five minutes after the level crossing, he is interrogated and ends as his partner: strangled and thrown into the sea ..
June 6, 1982: Murder of Carmelo Lo Iacono. The man was kidnapped by Marchese's men in Piazza Torrelunga, slipped into a Mini Minor, with which they left at high speed, but clashed with another parked Mini Minor. The owner of the car that saw it all, a retired ex-carabiniere, Antonio Peri, began to chase them. Having reached the height of Largo Grandi, the Mini Minor of the killers stopped, one of the killers got out, and cooled Peri with 3 pistol shots. Lo Jacomo was also killed, the body carried into the chamber of death and here dissolved in acid. The corpse of the former carabiniere was instead left in place.
June 6, 1982: Murder of Antoninus Peri.
June 16, 1982: Massacre of the ring road. The attack was directed against the Catania boss Alfio Ferlito, who was transferred from Enna to the prison of Trapani and who died in the ambush with the three carabinieri of the escort (Salvatore Raiti, Silvano Franzolin and Luigi Di Barca) and the 27 year old Giuseppe Di Lavore , driver of the private company that had contracted the transportation of prisoners, who had replaced his father. Di Lavore received the gold medal for civil valor. The instigator of this massacre was Nitto Santapaola, who for years had fought against Ferlito a war for dominance over the Etna territory.
June 29, 1982: Murder of Antonino Burraffato (Nicosia, June 13, 1933 - Termini Imerese, June 29, 1982) Italian policeman, vice-brigadier on duty at the Prison District of Cavallacci of Termini Imerese. He was murdered by a mafia hand on June 29, 1982. Until 1996 the investigations led to nothing, until the repentant Salvatore Cucuzza confessed to having participated, among other crimes, in the assassination of the vice brigade, by order of Leoluca Bagarella, brother in law by Salvatore Riina. The group of fire, one of the fiercest of the time, was composed of Pino Greco called "Scarpuzzedda", Giuseppe Lucchese, Antonio Marchese and the same Cucuzza. Salvatore Cucuzza was sentenced to 13 years with a final sentence, his position was removed from the trial. Leoluca Bagarella and Antonio Marchese were sentenced to life imprisonment with a final sentence. The son Salvatore and the journalist Vincenzo Bonadonna have written a book entitled "Burrafato, a forgotten crime" Edizioni La Zisa.
9 July 1982: Murder of Francesco Grillo, a member of the Santapaola clan, was allegedly tortured and then killed in Catania. Salvatore Pillera, was accused of being the instigator of the murder.
July 13, 1982: He seized the merchant Antonio Militello, a relative of Totuccio Contorno: Sinagra told that waiting for him were the most ruthless men of the course of the Thousand, with Filippo Marchese himself. Before he was killed, Militello was tortured, tortured and eventually his body buried forever in one of the many mafia cemeteries in Palermo.
21 July 1982: Murder of Salvatore Greco.
24 July 1982: Murder of Giacomo Cinà.
27 July 1982: Murder of Pietro Ragona.
August 3, 1982: Murder of Gregorio Marchese, thirty-eight years old and brother of Filippo Marchese's wife, on the evening
of August 3, 1982, he was killed with a shot in the face during a banquet with 11 guests, in the seaside villa of his brother-in-law Filippo Marchese, Casteldaccia: unaware of the identity of his brother-in-law's killers, Marquis began to strike almost at random, leaving behind a long trail of blood in the following days. Leading the hand of Marquis is Salvatore Montalto di Villabate, a mafioso who had recently moved with the Corleonesi and aspiring regent of the town's gang near Palermo, arrested on 7 November 1982.
August 5, 1982: Marquis's killers killed the brother of the 39-year-old fugitive, Giusto Parisi, in Altavilla. Then it was the turn of Cosimo Manzella, 47, municipal councilor of Casteldaccia, a former Christian Democrat who had recently moved to the PSI, and of his bag-holder Michelangelo Amato, 26 years old. The two were hit by the killer bullets in the morning, in front of the town hall of Bagheria.
6 August 1982: murder of Pietro Martorana in Altavilla Milicia. Martorana was a godson of Don Piddu Panno, who had disappeared the year before in Casteldaccia.
7 August 1982: Double murder of Santo Grassadonia, close to the family of Villabate and Michele Carollo, loyal to Panno Giuseppe.
7 August 1982: Double murder of Cesare Peppuccio Manzella and Ignazio Pedone, the latter mechanic. The two had been kidnapped and interrogated by Filippo Marchese, who then strangled them and turned them into the protagonists of the macabre and blatant gesture. The discovery came about thanks to a telephone call to the carabinieri station: "If you want to have fun, go and look in the car that is parked right in front of your barracks". Shortly before midnight, there was the macabre find a few meters from the carabinieri station, in a red Fiat 127, of the two bodies stuck in place.
7 August 1982: Murder of Francesco Pinello, friend of Giusto Parisi.
August 9, 1982: Murder of Leonardo Rizzo, a Bagerese convict who is found dead on his plot of land in Capo Zafferano.
9 August 1982: Filippo Marchese's men killed almost simultaneously - at 8.20 am and 8.25 am - relatives of the boss Giovanni Di Peri, killed in the Christmas massacre of Bagheria. Salvatore Di Peri was killed in Palermo, in via dei Tornieri, near the Vucciria market, while Pietro Di Peri was killed in Villabate, in via Alcide De Gasperi. A phone call came to the newspaper L'Ora: “Hello, we are the killer team of the death triangle: with the facts of this morning the operation we call" Carlo Alberto ", in honor of the prefect, is almost over. I say almost finished ". From the Church he was killed twenty days later, on September 3rd. The next day, at the Palermo office of La Sicilia, came the call: "Operation Carlo Alberto ended".
August 9, 1982: Murder of Leonardo Rizzo, a Bagerese convict who is found dead on his plot of land in Capo Zafferano.
11 August 1982: Double murder of Paolo Giaccone and Diego Di Fatta, the first was a medical examiner who refused to falsify the report on the Christmas massacre of 1981, while the second was a mugger. Around ten o'clock, the killer Salvatore Rotolo, Angelo Baiamonte, the brothers Vincenzo and Antonino Sinagra and their cousin Vincenzo Sinagra (known as U 'Ndli) met in via Messina Marine and went to via 4 aprile, between via Alloro and piazza Marina, to kill Diego Di Fatta, guilty of a robbery of an old lady protected by the mafia of Corso dei Mille. Of the fire group, he managed to escape the arrest of the carabinieri, who had witnessed the murder live, only Rotolo: the car in fact had slipped into a blind alley. Years later Vincenzo Sinagra U 'Ndli would become an important collaborator of justice, revealing many details of this period ..
August 24, 1982: Murder of Giulio Sciardelli.
August 30, 1982: Murder of Giovanni Spinelli, 46, entrepreneur, killed after recognizing the robber at dinner, two years after he suffered a robbery in 1979, recognizes the robber while he is having dinner in a restaurant. He's sitting at another table in the same room. At that point Spinelli reports the incident to a police officer and the robber is arrested on the spot. But it is not an ordinary man. In fact, Girolamo Frusteri is one of the nephews of Pino Savoca, a man of honor of Brancaccio, a relative of Masino Spadaro, the boss of Kalsa, and a friend of Salvatore Riina. Heavy curriculum. The order to punish Spinelli comes out. The deadly ambush is consummated in a late summer night in Pallavicino, in a side street of Via Castelforte.
September 3, 1982: Massacre of Via Carini, in which the prefect of Palermo, Carlo Alberto, died (1920 - 1982), his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro (1950 - 1982) and the escort agent Domenico Russo (1950 - 1982).
11 September 1982: Double murder of Benedetto and Antonio Buscetta. Tommaso's two sons were made to disappear in retaliation in Palermo.
September 30, 1982: Murder of Vincenzo Sanfilippo.
4 October 1982: Murder of Filippo Mineo.
11 October 1982: Murder of Armando Di Natale (Syracuse, 1941 - Novi Ligure, 11 October 1982). After the massacre in Via Carini, where Carlo Alberto was killed by the Church, his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and the escort agent Domenico Russo became a repentant who collaborated despite the fact that a warrant for his arrest was also hanging over his head. He had precedents for murders and drug trafficking and his "repentant" situation hunted by the law put him in an awkward position [2]. Before he was killed for not sharing the proceeds of half a 600-pound hashish that he had picked up by boat in Morocco and was seized to make him confess, but he was freed without having revealed the place where he had hidden the sum but terrified he took refuge in the Palermo police station. He was struck with two 7.65 mm pistol shots on the evening of Sunday 10 October near the Vignole Borbera toll booth on the A7 motorway while he was going with his wife and daughter in the direction of Genoa and was on the run to the French Riviera or Corsica after he was interrogated in Palermo on Tuesday; he was initially rescued by a motorist and the Genoa Sampierdarena traffic police and the ambulance that transported him to the San Giacomo Hospital in Novi Ligure, where he arrived at 11:15 pm, died at 00:30 without ever recovering knowledge. His wife and daughter were kidnapped and perhaps killed. Thanks to Di Natale, arrest warrants for Nunzio Salafia, Salvatore Genovese and Antonio Ragona were issued, issued by the investigating judge Giovanni Falcone, who had also issued an arrest warrant against him. The perpetrators of Di Natale's murder and the disappearance (and probable murder) of his wife and daughter are still unknown.
19 October 1982: Murder by Gaetano Scalici.
14 November 1982: Murder of Calogero Zucchetto (Sutera, 3 February 1955 - Palermo, 14 November 1982) policeman. With Commissioner Cassarà he used to go around on his motorbike through the narrow streets of Palermo and in particular to those in the suburb of Ciaculli, whom he knew well, in search of the wanted. In one of these tours with Cassarà he met two killers in the service of the Corleonese, Pino Greco called "scarpuzzedda" and Mario Prestifilippo, whom he had attended when they were not mafiosi. They recognized him and did not get caught. At the beginning of November 1982, after a week of stalking, among the citrus groves of Ciaculli he recognized the fugitive Salvatore Montalto, boss of Villabate, but being alone and having no means to arrest him he renounced the capture, which then took place on 7 November with a blitz of Cassarà. On the evening of Sunday, November 14, 1982, on leaving the "Collica" bar in Via Notarbartolo, a street in the center of Palermo, he was killed with five gunshots to the head fired by two killers riding a motorcycle. Subsequently, the perpetrators of the crime were identified as Mario Prestifilippo and Pino Greco, the same ones he had crossed on a scooter. As principals, the members of the "Mafia dome" were later condemned, that is the members of the most important organ of "Cosa Nostra", Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Raffaele Ganci and others.
19 November 1982: Murder of Salvatore Badalamenti, son of Antonino, a boy of just seventeen.
20 November 1982: Triple murder of Antonio Salvatore Minore (16 November 1927 - 20 November 1982), Nicolò Miceli (Buseto, 26 August 1928 - 20 November 1982) and Martino Buccellato (18 March 1958 - 20 November 1982). All three were strangled in Palermo.
November 30, 1982: Massacre of November 30, 1982, when something similar to the "night of the long knives" of Nazi history takes place inside the Cosa Nostra. The betrayed ally is Rosario Riccobono, boss of Partanna Mondello who - at the outbreak of the clash - passed with the Corleonesi after having been loyal to Bontate. Michele Greco invited Rosario Riccobono, Salvatore Scaglione (1940 - 1982), Giuseppe Lauricella, his son Salvatore, Francesco Cosenza, Carlo Savoca, Vincenzo Cannella, Francesco Gambino and Salvatore Micalizzi on his estate for an outdoor barbecue, making him believe they were their friend. Also present were Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Brusca, who after lunch drew the other guests into a trap with the help of Michele Greco and strangled them or shot them with the help of Giuseppe Greco “Scarpuzzedda”, Giovanni Brusca and Baldassare Di Maggio; the corpses of the victims were then stripped and thrown into containers full of acid always in Greco's estate. On the same day in Palermo numerous members of Riccobono were killed and a few days later his brother, Vito Riccobono, was found beheaded in his car. The massacre on Michele Greco's estate was implemented because Riina could not keep Riccobono and the others under control, and he needed to take them out of the way to reward his other Palermo allies, especially Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino, with the division of the territory that had already belonged to Riccobono and to the other bosses killed on the estate. According to various collaborators of justice, including Francesco Paolo Anzelmo, the Corleonesi of Salvatore Riina managed to infiltrate inside the Noce family several men of honor who in reality were only loyal to the Riina faction. For this reason Scaglione was progressively marginalized, and even the Commission downgraded the mandate of Noce to the rank of <<family>> aggregated to that of Porta Nuova, using as an excuse the scaglione refusal to punish one of his daughter who was sixteen pregnant. After the murder of Bontate, Inzerillo and others of their group, some members of the La Noce family were victims of white lupara and Scaglione professed loyalty to the "winning" faction of the Corleonesi. the second mafia war "which bloodied the streets of Palermo between April 1981 and the early months of 1983 continued.
November 30, 1982: Dual murder of Giovanni Saviano (Palermo, October 29, 1960 - November 30, 1982) and Michele Micalizzi (Palermo, October 11, 1949 - November 30, 1982). They were killed in bar Two.
December 25, 1982: Attempted murder of Giuseppe Greco "Scarpuzzedda" (1952 - 1985). Already from the statements of Stefano Calzetta it appears that 12/25/1982, there had been a "rufiata" to the Ciaculli and, that is, that Giovanneto Greco and Giuseppe Romano meant "the American" had shot Pino Greco "scarpazzedda" without succeeding to kill him. The reaction was immediate and of an unheard-of ferocity.
December 26, 1982: the brothers Gaspare and Michele Ficaro (brother and father of the cohabitant Giovannello Greco) and, with the same weapon, Giuseppe Genova, Antonio D'Amico and Orazio D'Amico (respectively son-in-law and grandchildren of Tommaso Buscetta) were killed.
December 27, 1982: Murder of Paolo Amodeo.
28 December 1982: Murder of Antonio Ammannato (Palermo, 19 September 1909 - 28 December 1982).
29 December 1982: Double murder of Vincenzo and Benedetto Buscetta (respectively, brother and nephew of Tommaso
Buscetta).
January 1983: Murder of Filippo Marchese (1938 - 1983), a leading figure in the Sicilian mafia, a killer suspected of dozens of murders and bosses of the mafia family in the Corso Dei Mille district of Palermo. His violent nature could have posed a threat to the Corleone bosses Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. Therefore, in January 1983 on order of Riina, Pino Greco was commissioned to kill the Marquis himself and to dissolve him in acid, as he himself had done with many of his victims.
24 January 1983: Murder of Nunzio La Mattina. La Mattina, a prominent member of the Porta Nuova family, had previously been one of the leaders of tobacco smuggling, and then, one of the most prominent elements in drug trafficking. On the contrary, according to Buscetta, it was precisely La Mattina that started the morphine-based traffic with the Middle East and the creation of laboratories for the production of heroin in Sicily. His killing and that of his brother-in-law, for which the specific reasons have not been ascertained so far, can nevertheless be ascribed to the commission's decision, most likely for matters that can be rectified to drug trafficking. In this regard, it is easy to note that if there had been no consensus in the killing of the two, the reaction of the Porta Nuova family, headed by Pippo Calò (an ally of the Corleonese), would have been extremely violent. And this conclusion is corroborated by the fact that - as Stefano Calzetta reported - in the murder of La Mattina's brother-in-law, Francesco Lo Nigro, Paolo Alfano and Pietro Senapa, members of the Corso dei Mille family, allied with that of Pippo Calò, are involved .
25 January 1983: Murder of Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto (Milan, 20 October 1941 - Valderice, 25 January 1983) Italian magistrate, victim of Cosa nostra.
5 February 1983: Murder of Giovanni Benfante.
8 February 1983: Double murder of Giuseppe Romano and Giuseppe Tramontana.
15 February 1983: Murder of Francesco Lo Nigro, brother-in-law of Nunzio La Mattina.
22 February 1983: Murder of Giuseppe Marchese, brother of Pietro.
March 16, 1983: Murder of Calogero Bellini.
March 16, 1983: Murder of Giovanni Amodeo.
March 17th 1983: Murder by Vincenzo Pesco.
April 12, 1983: Double murder of Antonino and Carlo Sorci. The murders of Antoninus and Charles draw the motivation in facts going back to times long gone and demonstrating the degree of corrivity and the inexhaustible thirst for revenge of the Corleonesi, in one with the state of subjection and supine acquiescence of the whole commission to the will of this last. Nino Sorci had been a partner in a financial company (Isep, later named Cofisi) together with Angelo Di Carlo, understood as the "captain", a native of Corleone; Luciano Leggio, claiming that Di Carlo was a cop, demanded from him the payment of the "bribe", until the Di Carlo, tired of the Leggio's harassment, informed his partner Nino Sorci, who obtained the intervention of the head of the commission of that time, Greco Salvatore called "cicchitteddu"; this last enjoined the Leggio or harassed Di Carlo and, albeit reluctantly, had to obey. This is the only reason, according to Buscetta, that could induce the Corleonese to eliminate the Sorci, who had remained strictly neutral in the confrontation in question. However, it is certain that the killing of the aforementioned Sisters - one of whom was representative of the Villagrazia family and the other chief of staff - could only be decided by the whole commission.
May 28, 1983: Murder of Angelo Capizzi. The crime took place in Riesi.
June 2, 1983: Murder of Silvio Badalamenti, grandson of Gaetano (1923 - 2004). The attack on Silvio Badalamenti took place on 2 June 1983 in the center of Marsala, in Via Mazzini. The victim, who had just left home to go to work, was 38 years old. The killer used a gun. Eleven months before he was killed, Silvio Badalamenti was arrested as part of an investigation into international drug trafficking followed by Giovanni Falcone. He was subsequently released from prison for lack of clues. Falcone had also told him: "Get away from Sicily". But Silvio Badalamenti, far from the events of Cosa Nostra, felt calm. "Until two days before - his wife Gabriella tells - he had accompanied his daughters to school like every morning". Gabriella Badalamenti has published for Sellerio a book ("Come l'oleandro") in which she also recalls the story of her husband.
June 5, 1983: Murder of Francesco Sorci.
June 13, 1983: Triple murder of Mario D'Aleo (Rome, February 16, 1954 - Palermo, June 13, 1983) officer of the Carabinieri, together with his colleagues Giuseppe Bommarito and Pietro Morici. Murdered by our own, he was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor to memory.
1981 or 1982: case of white lupara. In 1981 or 1982 occurred the murder of Emanuele D'Agostino (... - Palermo, 1981 or 1982) was one of the few men of the opposing faction to Salvatore Riina not to have agreed with him and therefore a former man of Stefano Bontate ( who had recently been murdered), Rosario Riccobono, had secretly gone over to the Corleonesi and on their behalf attracted D'Agostino in an ambush and strangled him, then making his body disappear into thin air. While he died, D'Agostino addressed Riccobono his last words: "Only you could betray me. This crime occurred during the years of the Mafia war, but there is no precise dating.
On 9 July 1983, Giovanni Falcone (1939 - 1992), in collaboration with Rocco Chinnici (1925 - 1983), issued 14 arrest warrants for the murder of General Dalla Chiesa, his wife and the Russian agent. Among the principals, Salvatore Riina (1930 - 2017), Bernardo Provenzano, Nenè Geraci (1917 - 2007), Bernardo Brusca (1929 - 2000) and Michele Greco (1924 - 2008) were identified.
29 July 1983: Massacre of Via Pipitone Federico, in which Rocco Chinnici (Misilmeri, 19 January 1925 - Palermo, 29 July 1983) died, magistrate, the carabinieri of the escort Mario Trapassi and Salvatore Bartolotta, and the porter of the building in Via Pipitone Federico, Stefano Li Sacchi.
12 November 1983: Murder of Salvatore Zarcone.
November 21st 1983: Homicide of Natale Badalamenti, a loyalist of Gaetano Badalamenti. He was killed in the hospital of Carini where he was hospitalized.
December 27, 1983: Murder of Paolo Amodeo.
5 January 1984: Murder of Giuseppe Fava known as Pippo (Palazzolo Acreide, 15 September 1925 - Catania, 5 January 1984) was an Italian writer, journalist, playwright, essayist and screenwriter, killed by our own. In 1998 the trial called "Orsa Maggiore 3" was concluded in Catania where for the murder of Giuseppe Fava the mafia boss Nitto Santapaola, considered the principal, Marcello D'Agata and Francesco Giammuso as organizers, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Aldo Ercolano as executor together with the confessed offender Maurizio Avola. In 2001, life sentences were confirmed by the Court of Appeal of Catania for Nitto Santapaola and Aldo Ercolano, accused of having been the instigators of the murder, while Marcello D'Agata and Franco Giammuso were acquitted who were in first instance been sentenced to life imprisonment as perpetrators of the murder. The last trial was concluded in 2003 with the sentence of the Court of Cassation which condemned Santapaola and Ercolano to life imprisonment and Avola to seven years bargained.
February 1984: Murder of Agostino Badalamenti, son of Christmas.
October 18, 1984: Massacre of Piazza Scaffa, in Palermo. Eight people are locked in a stable - slaughterhouse courtyard, inside Piazza Scaffa - put on the wall and shot by a dozen killers. The goal is the brothers Cosimo and Francesco Quattrocchi, horse meat dealers, owners of some butcher shops in the city. With them die cousin Cosimo Quattrocchi, brother-in-law Marcello Angelini, partner Salvatore Schimmenti and then Paolo Canale, Giovanni Catalanotti and Antonino Federico who were simply helping to arrange some new arrivals from Puglia. The massacre is a double signal by Totò Riina. To the magistrates of the anti-mafia pool, and to the face of the San Michele blitz, but also - the repentant ones reveal - to give an internal signal to the mafia organization and to some characters who are taking on too much a foot, such as Pino Greco Scarpuzzedda, who in fact he will be killed one year later.
1984: Murder of Vincenzo Anselmo, the father of Isabella Anselmo (sister of the killer Francesco Paolo and wife of Calogero Ganci, both killers of the Corleone faction), was a Danisinni mafioso. He was a victim of the white shotgun. He was killed by his son-in-law Calogero Ganci (1960).
November 14, 1984: Murder of Mario Coniglio, 55, a butcher by profession. He was Salvatore's brother, one of the mafia who has worked with justice for months and who played a decisive role in the trial of Pietro Marchese's killers. Rabbit was killed with three headshots in front of dozens of people in Via Eugenio l'Emiro, in the Quattro Camere alla Zisa district. It was a swift action: the killers arrived aboard a vespone, there were two of them and fired five shots at 7.65 caliber aiming at the head. Mario Coniglio fell right in front of his stall, devoid of life. The sentence recognized the guilt of the father of Raffaele Ganci, boss of the Noce neighborhood, and Domenico Guglielmini, both sentenced to 30 years in prison; also confirmed the 10-year sentence for the repentant Antonio Galliano, who had always denied his involvement. Witness one of the sons who was next to him while he was being killed.
2 December 1984: Murder of Leonardo Vitale (Palermo, 27 June 1941 - Palermo, 2 December 1984).
December 7, 1984: Murder of Pietro Busetta (husband of Serafina Buscetta), 62, defenseless and honest citizen guilty only of having married a sister of Tommaso Buscetta (1928 - 2000). The similar surname is just a game of destiny.
I found this chronology in wikipedia, I decided to translate and put it here.
[list]1981 - Attempted murder of Salvatore Riina, by Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981). It was in 1981 that the slaughter began. Bontate, Inzerillo, Spatola, Panno and all the mafia "old guard" met repeatedly to organize a plan to kill Totò Riina. But the leader of the Corleonesi who came to know the plan on Michele Greco's tip-off on March 11th had the boss of Casteldaccia Giuseppe "Piddu" Panno disappear. Bontate reacted by killing two men close to Riina: Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia.
11 March 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Panno, head of the Casteldaccia gang, closely linked to Stefano Bontate. Giuseppe Panno was an old head of the family of Casteldaccia and an "honorable man" of the ancient style who, disgusted by the turn of events and the barbarization of Cosa Nostra, had refused to take the place he had in the Commission "cicchitteddu" times; it is evident that his authoritative presence would have constituted a serious obstacle to the design of the Corleonesi and their allies to eliminate their adversaries. Bontate reacted by killing two men close to Riina: Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia.
11 March 1981: Murder of Giovanni Ambrogio.
1981: Double murder of Angelo Graziano and Stefano Giaconia, two men close to Salvatore Riina.
March 23, 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Settecasi (Alessandria della Rocca, August 18, 1898 - Agrigento, March 23, 1981). Representative of the province of Agrigento.
12 April 1981: Murder of Diego Gennaro.
April 23, 1981: Murder of Stefano Bontate (Palermo, April 23, 1939 - Palermo, April 23, 1981), head of Santa Maria di Gesù.
"On April 23, 1981, the evening of his birthday, Stefano Bontade was killed in an ambush prodigy, after Pietro Lo Iacono, who had gone to his house with the excuse of giving him his best wishes, had learned from the same Bontade that he was going to the country house and, thus, he had warned Lucchese Giuseppe who was waiting in the car under the house and who, by means of of a two-way radio, he had in turn warned, the murderers crouched near the house. "The reconstruction of the murder - reported to Buscetta in Brazil by Antonino Salomone after the latter had come to Palermo to inquire about the murder itself - is the very clear demonstration of the betrayal suffered by Bontate by his own deputy (Pietro Lo Iacono) and the involvement of the whole commission (Lucchese Giuseppe belongs to the Ciaculli family).
May 11, 1981: Murder of Salvatore Inzerillo (Palermo, August 20, 1944 - Palermo, May 11, 1981), head of the Rigano Pass.
May 26, 1981: At the same time, Giuseppe Di Franco (driver of Stefano Bontate) disappeared, the brothers Angelo and
Salvatore Federico and Girolamo Teresi, deputy of Bontate, were strangled and made to disappear.
May 27, 1981: Murder of Santo Inzerillo, brother of Salvatore (1944 - 1981).
May 28, 1981: Double murder of Vincenzo and Salvatore Severino.
9 June 1981: Murder of Francesco Di Noto, regent of the Corso dei Mille family.
12 June 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Inzerillo, 17, son of Salvatore (1944 - 1981), who had said: "I will kill Riina with my own hands".
June 15, 1981: murder of Ignazio Gnoffo, loyal to Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981) and in whose family he had played for a long time before being authorized by the Commission to rebuild the Palermo Centro family.
June 25, 1981: Attempted murder of Salvatore Contorno (1946).
31 July 1981: Murder of Domenico Ingrassia.
1 August 1981: Double homicide of Giovanni Falluca and Maurizio Lo Verso.
1 August 1981: Murder of Giacomo Sparacello.
August 9, 1981: Murder of Giovanni Di Fazio.
August 18, 1981: Murder of Antonino Badalamenti. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
August 28, 1981: Murder of Gioacchino Tagliavia.
September 2, 1981: Murder of Leonardo Caruana.
6 September 1981: Murder of Orazio Fiorentino.
24 September 1981: Murder of Giuseppe Finocchiaro.
September 29, 1981: Triple murder of Calogero Pizzuto, head of the Castronovo di Sicilia, and two other people, Michele Ciminnisi and Vincenzo Romano, dead for having found themselves in the killer fire path. Pizzuto was a faithful ally of the Palermo boss Stefano Bontate (1939 - 1981). The crime took place in a bar in San Giovanni Gemini, in the Agrigento region.
1 October 1981: Murder of Stefano Gallina. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
2 October 1981: Murder of Francesco Patricola.
3 October 1981: Murder of Pietro Mandalà.
October 5, 1981: Murder of Emanuele Mazzola.
9 October 1981: Murder of Antonino Vitale.
9 October 1981: Murder of Giovanni Costanzo.
October 9, 1981: Murder of Agostino Calabria.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Antonino Grado.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Francesco Mafara.
October 14, 1981: Murder of Giovanni Mafara.
November 6, 1981: Murder of Sebastiano Bosio (Palermo, August 18, 1929 - Palermo, November 6, 1981) Italian surgeon killed by the Mafia. He was killed at the time of his study, on 6 November 1981, by two hit men, shot by four bullets of a .38 caliber pistol. The reason for his killing, according to the testimony of some repents, was that Bosio would have treated superficial or at least hasty some mafia bosses rushed to him after having been victims of gunfights and of having cured criminals of the so-called faction of the losing mafia exit defeated by the second mafia war, including Totuccio Contorno. It was later discovered, thanks also to more accurate investigations, that Bosio had had a diatribe, at least by telephone, with the then medical director of the structure, Giuseppe Lima, brother of the more famous Salvo, who was killed in 1992 by the same mafia, since he promised under his command to carry out privileged operations for them. The first investigations of the investigators were almost limited, especially for the screening carried out by some members within them. From later repercussions, it was learned that some of Bosio's colleagues were friendly or even related, even to a large degree, to some leading mafia members. From the more detailed examinations, of the bullets, thanks to the new technologies, it emerged that to shoot was Antonino Madonia. Madonia was indicted in 2011, and today is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for this and a series of other mafia-style murders.
November 8th 1981: Murder of Antonino Rugnetta.
12 November 1981: Murder of Antonino Mineo.
December 25th 1981: Christmas Massacre. A killer commando, led by Giuseppe Greco "Scarpuzzedda", ambushed Bagheria against Giovanni Di Peri, head of the Villabate gang, and his deputy chief Antonino Pitarresi. Di Peri and Pitarresi, who were with their son Biagio, were chased through the streets of Bagheria and a shooting broke out, in which even a simple passer-by was killed; Di Peri and Biagio Pitarresi were killed while Antonino was loaded into a car still alive and killed in the country because the killer ammunition was over: these murders were carried out to reward Salvatore Montalto (1936 - 2012), a man of Salvatore Inzerillo who was secretly passed with the Corleonesi and now aimed to take command of the Villabate gang. In the shootout, Onofrio Valvola, a pensioner who had looked out to see what was happening, was also shot, and he would die in a pool of blood soon after.
1981: Filippo Giacalone disappears "mysteriously" even though his relatives unlikely claim to hear him by telephone, from time to time.
7 January 1982: Murder of Michele Graviano, the father of Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano, the bosses of Brancaccio: it was the beginning of the season of revenge against Riina and Provenzano, which became the new masters of Cosa Nostra.
January 8, 1982: Murder of Michel Ienna.
8 January 1982: Murder of Francesco Paolo Teresi, cousin of Girolamo Teresi and his business partner.
8 January 1982: Murder of Giovanni Di Fresco.
9 January 1982: Murder of Antonino Grado, uncle of his namesake nephew Antonino Grado.
11 January 1982: Murder of Ignazio D'Agostino.
January 14, 1982: Murder of Pietro Inzerillo, brother of Salvatore (1944 - 1981), he came to New York and, once again out of derision, the body was found in a luggage rack with dollars in the mouth and genitals.
6 February 1982: Murder of Paolo Mazzola.
8 February 1982: Murder of Antonino Inzerillo, uncle of Salvatore, the chief district of Passo di Rigano which was one of the main obstacles to the rise of the "Corleonesi" of Riina and Provenzano. Antonino Inzerillo was the victim of the "white lupara" in Brooklin.
25 February 1982: Murder of Pietro Marchese. "On 9/6/1981, in Palermo, as has been said, Franco Di Noto was killed, for a long time regent of the Corso dei Mille family and this was exactly interpreted by Giovannello Greco and Pietro Marchese as an unequivocal signal also in their comparisons, for which they rushed off with their wives and with Antonio Spica, a robber who gravitated towards Milan and was a friend of the Greco.Their escape was blocked in Zurich where they were arrested, while they were embarking on a plane bound for Brazil , because they were found in possession of banknotes from Susini and Armellini seizures and forged documents, extradited to Italy, the Greek, to whom the Milan GI granted him provisional freedom, was immediately unavailable, while the Marquis, who was translated into the Ucciardone prison because charged with the murder of Boris Giuliano, he was killed by other inmates on 25/2/1982.
12 March 1982: Murder of Francesco Di Fresco.
April 5, 1982: Murder of Francesco Mandalà.
April 15, 1982: Murder of Antonio Spica, a close friend of Giovanello Greco, kidnapped, killed and burned in a Milan dump after being released from prison.
April 15, 1982: Murder of Salvatore Spitalieri.
April 17, 1982: Murder of Salvatore Corsino.
April 26, 1982: Massacre of Via Iris.
30 April 1982: Double murder of Pio La Torre (Palermo, 24 December 1927 - Palermo, 30 April 1982) politician and trade unionist, and Rosario Di Salvo, his driver.
April 30, 1982: Double murder of Filippo and Carmelo Pedone. Crime for which Salvatore Lo Piccolo (1942) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
16 or 26 May 1982: Murder of Rodolfo Buscemi and Matteo Rizzuto. Buscemi and Rizzuto were taken to the death chamber by the men of Marchese, who questioned them on some questions related to the lace of the merchants of Villabate. In the room there was also the boss of Ciaculli Pino Greco Scarpuzzedda, who managed with Marquis the territory of Villabate. The fault of Buscemi was that he asked for the lace without any authorization: initially the mason lied, claiming he didn't know they were protected areas, but then he confessed and made the name of his accomplice Antonino Migliore. Both he and his brother-in-law were strangled immediately after confession. As the acid was finished, the two bodies were closed in the trunk of a stolen Fiat Ritmo, then loaded onto a boat and finally thrown at the bottom of the sea, at a point over seventy meters deep (the marine "cemetery" of the Corso family dei Mille and perhaps not the only one in the bay of Palermo), linked to two municipalities (old stone basins recovered in a public landfill).
22 May 1982: Murder of Giuseppe Mineo.
June 2, 1982: 26-year-old murder of Antonino Migliore, who resided near Piazza Scaffa, was kidnapped while he was waiting in his Fiat for Brancaccio's level crossing to be opened: he was taken to a villa protected by a garden, not far from Via Giafar , five minutes after the level crossing, he is interrogated and ends as his partner: strangled and thrown into the sea ..
June 6, 1982: Murder of Carmelo Lo Iacono. The man was kidnapped by Marchese's men in Piazza Torrelunga, slipped into a Mini Minor, with which they left at high speed, but clashed with another parked Mini Minor. The owner of the car that saw it all, a retired ex-carabiniere, Antonio Peri, began to chase them. Having reached the height of Largo Grandi, the Mini Minor of the killers stopped, one of the killers got out, and cooled Peri with 3 pistol shots. Lo Jacomo was also killed, the body carried into the chamber of death and here dissolved in acid. The corpse of the former carabiniere was instead left in place.
June 6, 1982: Murder of Antoninus Peri.
June 16, 1982: Massacre of the ring road. The attack was directed against the Catania boss Alfio Ferlito, who was transferred from Enna to the prison of Trapani and who died in the ambush with the three carabinieri of the escort (Salvatore Raiti, Silvano Franzolin and Luigi Di Barca) and the 27 year old Giuseppe Di Lavore , driver of the private company that had contracted the transportation of prisoners, who had replaced his father. Di Lavore received the gold medal for civil valor. The instigator of this massacre was Nitto Santapaola, who for years had fought against Ferlito a war for dominance over the Etna territory.
June 29, 1982: Murder of Antonino Burraffato (Nicosia, June 13, 1933 - Termini Imerese, June 29, 1982) Italian policeman, vice-brigadier on duty at the Prison District of Cavallacci of Termini Imerese. He was murdered by a mafia hand on June 29, 1982. Until 1996 the investigations led to nothing, until the repentant Salvatore Cucuzza confessed to having participated, among other crimes, in the assassination of the vice brigade, by order of Leoluca Bagarella, brother in law by Salvatore Riina. The group of fire, one of the fiercest of the time, was composed of Pino Greco called "Scarpuzzedda", Giuseppe Lucchese, Antonio Marchese and the same Cucuzza. Salvatore Cucuzza was sentenced to 13 years with a final sentence, his position was removed from the trial. Leoluca Bagarella and Antonio Marchese were sentenced to life imprisonment with a final sentence. The son Salvatore and the journalist Vincenzo Bonadonna have written a book entitled "Burrafato, a forgotten crime" Edizioni La Zisa.
9 July 1982: Murder of Francesco Grillo, a member of the Santapaola clan, was allegedly tortured and then killed in Catania. Salvatore Pillera, was accused of being the instigator of the murder.
July 13, 1982: He seized the merchant Antonio Militello, a relative of Totuccio Contorno: Sinagra told that waiting for him were the most ruthless men of the course of the Thousand, with Filippo Marchese himself. Before he was killed, Militello was tortured, tortured and eventually his body buried forever in one of the many mafia cemeteries in Palermo.
21 July 1982: Murder of Salvatore Greco.
24 July 1982: Murder of Giacomo Cinà.
27 July 1982: Murder of Pietro Ragona.
August 3, 1982: Murder of Gregorio Marchese, thirty-eight years old and brother of Filippo Marchese's wife, on the evening
of August 3, 1982, he was killed with a shot in the face during a banquet with 11 guests, in the seaside villa of his brother-in-law Filippo Marchese, Casteldaccia: unaware of the identity of his brother-in-law's killers, Marquis began to strike almost at random, leaving behind a long trail of blood in the following days. Leading the hand of Marquis is Salvatore Montalto di Villabate, a mafioso who had recently moved with the Corleonesi and aspiring regent of the town's gang near Palermo, arrested on 7 November 1982.
August 5, 1982: Marquis's killers killed the brother of the 39-year-old fugitive, Giusto Parisi, in Altavilla. Then it was the turn of Cosimo Manzella, 47, municipal councilor of Casteldaccia, a former Christian Democrat who had recently moved to the PSI, and of his bag-holder Michelangelo Amato, 26 years old. The two were hit by the killer bullets in the morning, in front of the town hall of Bagheria.
6 August 1982: murder of Pietro Martorana in Altavilla Milicia. Martorana was a godson of Don Piddu Panno, who had disappeared the year before in Casteldaccia.
7 August 1982: Double murder of Santo Grassadonia, close to the family of Villabate and Michele Carollo, loyal to Panno Giuseppe.
7 August 1982: Double murder of Cesare Peppuccio Manzella and Ignazio Pedone, the latter mechanic. The two had been kidnapped and interrogated by Filippo Marchese, who then strangled them and turned them into the protagonists of the macabre and blatant gesture. The discovery came about thanks to a telephone call to the carabinieri station: "If you want to have fun, go and look in the car that is parked right in front of your barracks". Shortly before midnight, there was the macabre find a few meters from the carabinieri station, in a red Fiat 127, of the two bodies stuck in place.
7 August 1982: Murder of Francesco Pinello, friend of Giusto Parisi.
August 9, 1982: Murder of Leonardo Rizzo, a Bagerese convict who is found dead on his plot of land in Capo Zafferano.
9 August 1982: Filippo Marchese's men killed almost simultaneously - at 8.20 am and 8.25 am - relatives of the boss Giovanni Di Peri, killed in the Christmas massacre of Bagheria. Salvatore Di Peri was killed in Palermo, in via dei Tornieri, near the Vucciria market, while Pietro Di Peri was killed in Villabate, in via Alcide De Gasperi. A phone call came to the newspaper L'Ora: “Hello, we are the killer team of the death triangle: with the facts of this morning the operation we call" Carlo Alberto ", in honor of the prefect, is almost over. I say almost finished ". From the Church he was killed twenty days later, on September 3rd. The next day, at the Palermo office of La Sicilia, came the call: "Operation Carlo Alberto ended".
August 9, 1982: Murder of Leonardo Rizzo, a Bagerese convict who is found dead on his plot of land in Capo Zafferano.
11 August 1982: Double murder of Paolo Giaccone and Diego Di Fatta, the first was a medical examiner who refused to falsify the report on the Christmas massacre of 1981, while the second was a mugger. Around ten o'clock, the killer Salvatore Rotolo, Angelo Baiamonte, the brothers Vincenzo and Antonino Sinagra and their cousin Vincenzo Sinagra (known as U 'Ndli) met in via Messina Marine and went to via 4 aprile, between via Alloro and piazza Marina, to kill Diego Di Fatta, guilty of a robbery of an old lady protected by the mafia of Corso dei Mille. Of the fire group, he managed to escape the arrest of the carabinieri, who had witnessed the murder live, only Rotolo: the car in fact had slipped into a blind alley. Years later Vincenzo Sinagra U 'Ndli would become an important collaborator of justice, revealing many details of this period ..
August 24, 1982: Murder of Giulio Sciardelli.
August 30, 1982: Murder of Giovanni Spinelli, 46, entrepreneur, killed after recognizing the robber at dinner, two years after he suffered a robbery in 1979, recognizes the robber while he is having dinner in a restaurant. He's sitting at another table in the same room. At that point Spinelli reports the incident to a police officer and the robber is arrested on the spot. But it is not an ordinary man. In fact, Girolamo Frusteri is one of the nephews of Pino Savoca, a man of honor of Brancaccio, a relative of Masino Spadaro, the boss of Kalsa, and a friend of Salvatore Riina. Heavy curriculum. The order to punish Spinelli comes out. The deadly ambush is consummated in a late summer night in Pallavicino, in a side street of Via Castelforte.
September 3, 1982: Massacre of Via Carini, in which the prefect of Palermo, Carlo Alberto, died (1920 - 1982), his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro (1950 - 1982) and the escort agent Domenico Russo (1950 - 1982).
11 September 1982: Double murder of Benedetto and Antonio Buscetta. Tommaso's two sons were made to disappear in retaliation in Palermo.
September 30, 1982: Murder of Vincenzo Sanfilippo.
4 October 1982: Murder of Filippo Mineo.
11 October 1982: Murder of Armando Di Natale (Syracuse, 1941 - Novi Ligure, 11 October 1982). After the massacre in Via Carini, where Carlo Alberto was killed by the Church, his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and the escort agent Domenico Russo became a repentant who collaborated despite the fact that a warrant for his arrest was also hanging over his head. He had precedents for murders and drug trafficking and his "repentant" situation hunted by the law put him in an awkward position [2]. Before he was killed for not sharing the proceeds of half a 600-pound hashish that he had picked up by boat in Morocco and was seized to make him confess, but he was freed without having revealed the place where he had hidden the sum but terrified he took refuge in the Palermo police station. He was struck with two 7.65 mm pistol shots on the evening of Sunday 10 October near the Vignole Borbera toll booth on the A7 motorway while he was going with his wife and daughter in the direction of Genoa and was on the run to the French Riviera or Corsica after he was interrogated in Palermo on Tuesday; he was initially rescued by a motorist and the Genoa Sampierdarena traffic police and the ambulance that transported him to the San Giacomo Hospital in Novi Ligure, where he arrived at 11:15 pm, died at 00:30 without ever recovering knowledge. His wife and daughter were kidnapped and perhaps killed. Thanks to Di Natale, arrest warrants for Nunzio Salafia, Salvatore Genovese and Antonio Ragona were issued, issued by the investigating judge Giovanni Falcone, who had also issued an arrest warrant against him. The perpetrators of Di Natale's murder and the disappearance (and probable murder) of his wife and daughter are still unknown.
19 October 1982: Murder by Gaetano Scalici.
14 November 1982: Murder of Calogero Zucchetto (Sutera, 3 February 1955 - Palermo, 14 November 1982) policeman. With Commissioner Cassarà he used to go around on his motorbike through the narrow streets of Palermo and in particular to those in the suburb of Ciaculli, whom he knew well, in search of the wanted. In one of these tours with Cassarà he met two killers in the service of the Corleonese, Pino Greco called "scarpuzzedda" and Mario Prestifilippo, whom he had attended when they were not mafiosi. They recognized him and did not get caught. At the beginning of November 1982, after a week of stalking, among the citrus groves of Ciaculli he recognized the fugitive Salvatore Montalto, boss of Villabate, but being alone and having no means to arrest him he renounced the capture, which then took place on 7 November with a blitz of Cassarà. On the evening of Sunday, November 14, 1982, on leaving the "Collica" bar in Via Notarbartolo, a street in the center of Palermo, he was killed with five gunshots to the head fired by two killers riding a motorcycle. Subsequently, the perpetrators of the crime were identified as Mario Prestifilippo and Pino Greco, the same ones he had crossed on a scooter. As principals, the members of the "Mafia dome" were later condemned, that is the members of the most important organ of "Cosa Nostra", Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Raffaele Ganci and others.
19 November 1982: Murder of Salvatore Badalamenti, son of Antonino, a boy of just seventeen.
20 November 1982: Triple murder of Antonio Salvatore Minore (16 November 1927 - 20 November 1982), Nicolò Miceli (Buseto, 26 August 1928 - 20 November 1982) and Martino Buccellato (18 March 1958 - 20 November 1982). All three were strangled in Palermo.
November 30, 1982: Massacre of November 30, 1982, when something similar to the "night of the long knives" of Nazi history takes place inside the Cosa Nostra. The betrayed ally is Rosario Riccobono, boss of Partanna Mondello who - at the outbreak of the clash - passed with the Corleonesi after having been loyal to Bontate. Michele Greco invited Rosario Riccobono, Salvatore Scaglione (1940 - 1982), Giuseppe Lauricella, his son Salvatore, Francesco Cosenza, Carlo Savoca, Vincenzo Cannella, Francesco Gambino and Salvatore Micalizzi on his estate for an outdoor barbecue, making him believe they were their friend. Also present were Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Brusca, who after lunch drew the other guests into a trap with the help of Michele Greco and strangled them or shot them with the help of Giuseppe Greco “Scarpuzzedda”, Giovanni Brusca and Baldassare Di Maggio; the corpses of the victims were then stripped and thrown into containers full of acid always in Greco's estate. On the same day in Palermo numerous members of Riccobono were killed and a few days later his brother, Vito Riccobono, was found beheaded in his car. The massacre on Michele Greco's estate was implemented because Riina could not keep Riccobono and the others under control, and he needed to take them out of the way to reward his other Palermo allies, especially Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino, with the division of the territory that had already belonged to Riccobono and to the other bosses killed on the estate. According to various collaborators of justice, including Francesco Paolo Anzelmo, the Corleonesi of Salvatore Riina managed to infiltrate inside the Noce family several men of honor who in reality were only loyal to the Riina faction. For this reason Scaglione was progressively marginalized, and even the Commission downgraded the mandate of Noce to the rank of <<family>> aggregated to that of Porta Nuova, using as an excuse the scaglione refusal to punish one of his daughter who was sixteen pregnant. After the murder of Bontate, Inzerillo and others of their group, some members of the La Noce family were victims of white lupara and Scaglione professed loyalty to the "winning" faction of the Corleonesi. the second mafia war "which bloodied the streets of Palermo between April 1981 and the early months of 1983 continued.
November 30, 1982: Dual murder of Giovanni Saviano (Palermo, October 29, 1960 - November 30, 1982) and Michele Micalizzi (Palermo, October 11, 1949 - November 30, 1982). They were killed in bar Two.
December 25, 1982: Attempted murder of Giuseppe Greco "Scarpuzzedda" (1952 - 1985). Already from the statements of Stefano Calzetta it appears that 12/25/1982, there had been a "rufiata" to the Ciaculli and, that is, that Giovanneto Greco and Giuseppe Romano meant "the American" had shot Pino Greco "scarpazzedda" without succeeding to kill him. The reaction was immediate and of an unheard-of ferocity.
December 26, 1982: the brothers Gaspare and Michele Ficaro (brother and father of the cohabitant Giovannello Greco) and, with the same weapon, Giuseppe Genova, Antonio D'Amico and Orazio D'Amico (respectively son-in-law and grandchildren of Tommaso Buscetta) were killed.
December 27, 1982: Murder of Paolo Amodeo.
28 December 1982: Murder of Antonio Ammannato (Palermo, 19 September 1909 - 28 December 1982).
29 December 1982: Double murder of Vincenzo and Benedetto Buscetta (respectively, brother and nephew of Tommaso
Buscetta).
January 1983: Murder of Filippo Marchese (1938 - 1983), a leading figure in the Sicilian mafia, a killer suspected of dozens of murders and bosses of the mafia family in the Corso Dei Mille district of Palermo. His violent nature could have posed a threat to the Corleone bosses Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. Therefore, in January 1983 on order of Riina, Pino Greco was commissioned to kill the Marquis himself and to dissolve him in acid, as he himself had done with many of his victims.
24 January 1983: Murder of Nunzio La Mattina. La Mattina, a prominent member of the Porta Nuova family, had previously been one of the leaders of tobacco smuggling, and then, one of the most prominent elements in drug trafficking. On the contrary, according to Buscetta, it was precisely La Mattina that started the morphine-based traffic with the Middle East and the creation of laboratories for the production of heroin in Sicily. His killing and that of his brother-in-law, for which the specific reasons have not been ascertained so far, can nevertheless be ascribed to the commission's decision, most likely for matters that can be rectified to drug trafficking. In this regard, it is easy to note that if there had been no consensus in the killing of the two, the reaction of the Porta Nuova family, headed by Pippo Calò (an ally of the Corleonese), would have been extremely violent. And this conclusion is corroborated by the fact that - as Stefano Calzetta reported - in the murder of La Mattina's brother-in-law, Francesco Lo Nigro, Paolo Alfano and Pietro Senapa, members of the Corso dei Mille family, allied with that of Pippo Calò, are involved .
25 January 1983: Murder of Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto (Milan, 20 October 1941 - Valderice, 25 January 1983) Italian magistrate, victim of Cosa nostra.
5 February 1983: Murder of Giovanni Benfante.
8 February 1983: Double murder of Giuseppe Romano and Giuseppe Tramontana.
15 February 1983: Murder of Francesco Lo Nigro, brother-in-law of Nunzio La Mattina.
22 February 1983: Murder of Giuseppe Marchese, brother of Pietro.
March 16, 1983: Murder of Calogero Bellini.
March 16, 1983: Murder of Giovanni Amodeo.
March 17th 1983: Murder by Vincenzo Pesco.
April 12, 1983: Double murder of Antonino and Carlo Sorci. The murders of Antoninus and Charles draw the motivation in facts going back to times long gone and demonstrating the degree of corrivity and the inexhaustible thirst for revenge of the Corleonesi, in one with the state of subjection and supine acquiescence of the whole commission to the will of this last. Nino Sorci had been a partner in a financial company (Isep, later named Cofisi) together with Angelo Di Carlo, understood as the "captain", a native of Corleone; Luciano Leggio, claiming that Di Carlo was a cop, demanded from him the payment of the "bribe", until the Di Carlo, tired of the Leggio's harassment, informed his partner Nino Sorci, who obtained the intervention of the head of the commission of that time, Greco Salvatore called "cicchitteddu"; this last enjoined the Leggio or harassed Di Carlo and, albeit reluctantly, had to obey. This is the only reason, according to Buscetta, that could induce the Corleonese to eliminate the Sorci, who had remained strictly neutral in the confrontation in question. However, it is certain that the killing of the aforementioned Sisters - one of whom was representative of the Villagrazia family and the other chief of staff - could only be decided by the whole commission.
May 28, 1983: Murder of Angelo Capizzi. The crime took place in Riesi.
June 2, 1983: Murder of Silvio Badalamenti, grandson of Gaetano (1923 - 2004). The attack on Silvio Badalamenti took place on 2 June 1983 in the center of Marsala, in Via Mazzini. The victim, who had just left home to go to work, was 38 years old. The killer used a gun. Eleven months before he was killed, Silvio Badalamenti was arrested as part of an investigation into international drug trafficking followed by Giovanni Falcone. He was subsequently released from prison for lack of clues. Falcone had also told him: "Get away from Sicily". But Silvio Badalamenti, far from the events of Cosa Nostra, felt calm. "Until two days before - his wife Gabriella tells - he had accompanied his daughters to school like every morning". Gabriella Badalamenti has published for Sellerio a book ("Come l'oleandro") in which she also recalls the story of her husband.
June 5, 1983: Murder of Francesco Sorci.
June 13, 1983: Triple murder of Mario D'Aleo (Rome, February 16, 1954 - Palermo, June 13, 1983) officer of the Carabinieri, together with his colleagues Giuseppe Bommarito and Pietro Morici. Murdered by our own, he was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor to memory.
1981 or 1982: case of white lupara. In 1981 or 1982 occurred the murder of Emanuele D'Agostino (... - Palermo, 1981 or 1982) was one of the few men of the opposing faction to Salvatore Riina not to have agreed with him and therefore a former man of Stefano Bontate ( who had recently been murdered), Rosario Riccobono, had secretly gone over to the Corleonesi and on their behalf attracted D'Agostino in an ambush and strangled him, then making his body disappear into thin air. While he died, D'Agostino addressed Riccobono his last words: "Only you could betray me. This crime occurred during the years of the Mafia war, but there is no precise dating.
On 9 July 1983, Giovanni Falcone (1939 - 1992), in collaboration with Rocco Chinnici (1925 - 1983), issued 14 arrest warrants for the murder of General Dalla Chiesa, his wife and the Russian agent. Among the principals, Salvatore Riina (1930 - 2017), Bernardo Provenzano, Nenè Geraci (1917 - 2007), Bernardo Brusca (1929 - 2000) and Michele Greco (1924 - 2008) were identified.
29 July 1983: Massacre of Via Pipitone Federico, in which Rocco Chinnici (Misilmeri, 19 January 1925 - Palermo, 29 July 1983) died, magistrate, the carabinieri of the escort Mario Trapassi and Salvatore Bartolotta, and the porter of the building in Via Pipitone Federico, Stefano Li Sacchi.
12 November 1983: Murder of Salvatore Zarcone.
November 21st 1983: Homicide of Natale Badalamenti, a loyalist of Gaetano Badalamenti. He was killed in the hospital of Carini where he was hospitalized.
December 27, 1983: Murder of Paolo Amodeo.
5 January 1984: Murder of Giuseppe Fava known as Pippo (Palazzolo Acreide, 15 September 1925 - Catania, 5 January 1984) was an Italian writer, journalist, playwright, essayist and screenwriter, killed by our own. In 1998 the trial called "Orsa Maggiore 3" was concluded in Catania where for the murder of Giuseppe Fava the mafia boss Nitto Santapaola, considered the principal, Marcello D'Agata and Francesco Giammuso as organizers, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Aldo Ercolano as executor together with the confessed offender Maurizio Avola. In 2001, life sentences were confirmed by the Court of Appeal of Catania for Nitto Santapaola and Aldo Ercolano, accused of having been the instigators of the murder, while Marcello D'Agata and Franco Giammuso were acquitted who were in first instance been sentenced to life imprisonment as perpetrators of the murder. The last trial was concluded in 2003 with the sentence of the Court of Cassation which condemned Santapaola and Ercolano to life imprisonment and Avola to seven years bargained.
February 1984: Murder of Agostino Badalamenti, son of Christmas.
October 18, 1984: Massacre of Piazza Scaffa, in Palermo. Eight people are locked in a stable - slaughterhouse courtyard, inside Piazza Scaffa - put on the wall and shot by a dozen killers. The goal is the brothers Cosimo and Francesco Quattrocchi, horse meat dealers, owners of some butcher shops in the city. With them die cousin Cosimo Quattrocchi, brother-in-law Marcello Angelini, partner Salvatore Schimmenti and then Paolo Canale, Giovanni Catalanotti and Antonino Federico who were simply helping to arrange some new arrivals from Puglia. The massacre is a double signal by Totò Riina. To the magistrates of the anti-mafia pool, and to the face of the San Michele blitz, but also - the repentant ones reveal - to give an internal signal to the mafia organization and to some characters who are taking on too much a foot, such as Pino Greco Scarpuzzedda, who in fact he will be killed one year later.
1984: Murder of Vincenzo Anselmo, the father of Isabella Anselmo (sister of the killer Francesco Paolo and wife of Calogero Ganci, both killers of the Corleone faction), was a Danisinni mafioso. He was a victim of the white shotgun. He was killed by his son-in-law Calogero Ganci (1960).
November 14, 1984: Murder of Mario Coniglio, 55, a butcher by profession. He was Salvatore's brother, one of the mafia who has worked with justice for months and who played a decisive role in the trial of Pietro Marchese's killers. Rabbit was killed with three headshots in front of dozens of people in Via Eugenio l'Emiro, in the Quattro Camere alla Zisa district. It was a swift action: the killers arrived aboard a vespone, there were two of them and fired five shots at 7.65 caliber aiming at the head. Mario Coniglio fell right in front of his stall, devoid of life. The sentence recognized the guilt of the father of Raffaele Ganci, boss of the Noce neighborhood, and Domenico Guglielmini, both sentenced to 30 years in prison; also confirmed the 10-year sentence for the repentant Antonio Galliano, who had always denied his involvement. Witness one of the sons who was next to him while he was being killed.
2 December 1984: Murder of Leonardo Vitale (Palermo, 27 June 1941 - Palermo, 2 December 1984).
December 7, 1984: Murder of Pietro Busetta (husband of Serafina Buscetta), 62, defenseless and honest citizen guilty only of having married a sister of Tommaso Buscetta (1928 - 2000). The similar surname is just a game of destiny.[/list]