
Mafia hit man who killed famous prosecutor and dissolved boy's body in acid apologizes for role in "factory of death"
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The release from prison of one of Italy's most notorious mobsters-turned-informants generated more indignation Thursday, even after he was shown in an old jailhouse interview apologizing to his many victims for his role in "this factory of death."
Giovanni Brusca, 64, got out of prison this week after serving 25 years of a life term for some of Cosa Nostra's most heinous crimes. They include the 1992 car bomb slaying of Italy's leading anti-Mafia prosecutor, his wife and three bodyguards and the 1996 kidnapping and murder of the 11-year-old son of a Mafia turncoat. The boy's strangled body was dissolved in a vat of acid. Brusca reportedly admitted to participating in some 150 homicides as the right-hand man to Cosa Nostra's "boss of bosses," Salvatore "Toto" Riina, who died in prison in 2017.
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