Killed and dissolved in acid by the mafia, 17 years later the killers have a name: 4 arrests

Killed and dissolved in acid by the mafia. The boss was kidnapped by a commando of men. Disguised as cops in 2000 in front of their daughter. It was the little girl who gave the first information on the murder with a drawing. The turning point thanks to the statements of the collaborator of justice Antonino Pipitone.

He chose to tell his tragic story through a drawing. Angela Tocco, daughter of Giampiero Tocco, was only six years old at the time. Her father Giampiero was kidnapped in front of her. Then killed by Cosa Nostra a October 2000.

Through the drawing, the little girl revealed the dynamics of the kidnapping by reproducing the scene she had experienced. He was in the car with his father when four mafiosi disguised as policemen they stopped him and ordered him to pull over. Tocco, suspected by the police of the murder of the boss Giuseppe Di Maggio, was intercepted.

After 17 years the repentant speaks and sets up the killers

Bugs had been placed in the car which picked up the agonizing phone call. Made from little girl to mom. "Mom the cops took him away, they arrested him", he said crying. And the mother tried to reassure her and tried to figure out where she was.

The drawing of the little girl, now an adult, ended up in the cell some of those responsible for the murder: like the principals Salvatore and Sandro Lo Piccolo. Today, thanks to the statements of the repentant Antonino Pipitone and also thanks to that drawing. Used by the carabinieri, the other 4 alleged perpetrators who still lacked the appeal were identified.

Killed and dissolved in acid by the mafia: the names

These are Freddy Gallina, Vincenzo and Giovan Battista Pipitone and Salvatore Gregoli. Investigators - the investigation is coordinated by the Palermo DDA - crossing the statements of Pipitone with those of two other repentants, Francesco Briguglio and Gaspare Pulizzi, the last two already condemned, they ascertained that Antonino Pipitone and Salvatore Gregoli staged (with the help of Freddy Gallina, Gaspare Pulizzi, Damiano Mazzola, Sandro and Salvatore Lo Piccolo who acted as a “relay”), the fake police checkpoint, wearing special harnesses and using a car with a flashing light to stop the off-road vehicle, seize Tocco and lead him to a house in Torretta.

According to the allegations, Giovan Battista and Vincenzo Pipitone then, together with the Lo Piccolo family, interrogated and then strangled the victim, while Pulizzi and Gallina, in the days preceding the crime, carried out preliminary inspections along the itinerary and then participated in the relay race to support the fake policemen. The two of them also loaded the body into a car and transported it to the Dominici di Torretta district. News taken from youtube channel TeleOne