24 Facts About Giuseppe Setola

On January 12,2009, Giuseppe Setola evaded arrest by escaping into the sewers through a secret trapdoor during a police raid on his hideout.

Giuseppe Setola was arrested two days later after leading police on a rooftop chase.

Giuseppe Setola is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence for murder.

Giuseppe Setola was featured in Gomorrah, the best-selling Roberto Saviano book about the Camorra in Campania.

Giuseppe Setola was a Camorrista and boss of the Casalesi clan from Caserta.

Giuseppe Setola became considered one of the most wanted fugitives in Italy.

Giuseppe Setola was featured in Gomorrah, the 2006 best-selling book by author Roberto Saviano about the Campanian mafia.

Authorities claimed Giuseppe Setola ordered or carried out 18 murders between May and December 2008, during which time he allegedly led a Casalesi squad of killers, who reportedly sought to eliminate rivals and punish businessmen who refused to pay protection money to the Camorra.

Giuseppe Setola was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, but was placed on house arrest in the spring of 2008 when he received a doctor's certificate that he was suffering from an eye infection.

Giuseppe Setola escaped and went underground almost immediately after being placed on house arrest.

Prosecutors later opened a probe into how Giuseppe Setola organized the escape.

Giuseppe Setola was said to be responsible for the murder of a gambling arcade owner in a coastal town neighboring Caserta.

Giuseppe Setola has been said to have driven a motorbike during some of his alleged hits.

Investigators claimed Giuseppe Setola orchestrated the killings to punish the Africans for getting involved in drug trafficking and impeding on the Casalesi clan's business.

In October 2008, Oreste Spagnuolo, a member of Giuseppe Setola's alleged killing squad, started assisting police in their mission to arrest Giuseppe Setola and his other accomplices.

In January 2009, Giuseppe Setola later sent a letter to a local newspaper denying responsibility for his alleged crimes.

Giuseppe Setola wrote that he was blind in one eye, a claim that has been met with skepticism by the press, and disputed by police.

Giuseppe Setola was eventually found to be sharing a house in Trentola-Ducenta with his wife, Stefania Martinelli, and another suspected mobster.

Giuseppe Setola reemerged from a manhole outside a dairy, where he robbed a woman of her car and drove away.

Later that night, the prosecutors leading the hunt for Giuseppe Setola received a threatening letter that included five rounds of live ammunition.

Giuseppe Setola was arrested on January 14,2009 in Mignano Monte Lungo, where he was seeking treatment for a wrist injury he suffered during his escape two days earlier.

Giuseppe Setola led authorities through a rooftop chase before placing him under arrest.

Giuseppe Setola was confined in the 41-bis prison regime, the strictest and most restrictive Italian prison regime, which included solitary confinement and continuous surveillance in a maximum-security jail.

Giuseppe Setola's cell included only a bed, a table and a stool, without access to television, radio or newspapers.