Italian mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include dissolving a boy's body in acid, has been released from prison this week after a 25-year reduced sentence. He was arrested in 1996 and became an informant for the state four years later, helping prosecutors in their crackdown against the Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia group. Brusca, who was known as the 'people slayer' and was a key operator in the Cosa Nostra, was released on Monday from Rome's Rebibbia prison. Giuseppe, then 14, was strangled and his body was thrown into acid in what police called 'one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Cosa Nostra'. I worked all my life for Cosa Nostra.

Source: Daily Mail June 01, 2021 15:53 UTC