1. Giuseppe Greco's father was a Mafioso nicknamed Scarpa, hence his nickname of Scarpuzzedda, or "little shoe".
14 Facts About Giuseppe Greco
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Giuseppe Greco was born in 1952 in Ciaculli, an outlying town in the province of Palermo, the administrative centre of Sicily.
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Giuseppe Greco was eventually convicted in absentia of 58 murders, most of them committed during the early 1980s, but it is believed he committed at least 80 murders in total and possibly as many as 300.
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Giuseppe Greco gunned down Stefano Bontade, Salvatore Inzerillo, Pio La Torre and police officer Ninni Cassara in 1985.
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Giuseppe Greco even murdered Inzerillo's fifteen-year-old son after the youth vowed to avenge his murdered father.
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Giuseppe Greco is rumoured to have chopped the boy's arm off before shooting him in the head and dissolving his corpse in acid.
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On 30 November 1982 Giuseppe Greco personally strangled to death Palermo boss Rosario Riccobono, the long-time ruler of the Partanna-Mondello family.
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Giuseppe Greco had built up a following of younger Mafiosi who looked up to him, even more so than they did to the Corleonesi bosses.
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Giuseppe Greco was not informed as part of a deliberate strategy to show his lack of effective power over the territory under his jurisdiction.
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Sometime in September 1985, a month after Cassara's assassination, Giuseppe Greco was murdered in his home.
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Giuseppe Greco was shot to death by his two fellow mafiosi and supposed friends, Vincenzo Puccio and Giuseppe Lucchese, although the orders came from Riina, who had felt Greco was getting too ambitious and too independent-minded for his liking.
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Giuseppe Greco's elimination was the first of several by the Corleonesi in order to weaken the Ciaculli clan.
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Giuseppe Greco was given an in absentia life sentence as part of the Maxi Trial in 1987 after being found guilty of 58 counts of murder, even though he was dead by then.
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Rumours of Giuseppe Greco's death surfaced in 1988 and these were only confirmed to the authorities by an informant, Francesco Marino Mannoia, the following year.