Killed and dissolved in acid 10 years ago, three arrests in Naples

(ANSA) - NAPLES, MAY 17 - Killed and dissolved in acid because he had established a romantic relationship with the wife of an affiliated prisoner: this was the motive for the murder ofSalvatore Totoriello, nicknamed 'Tototiello', who disappeared (the body was never found) on September 27, 2013, a coldcase solved by the Carabinieri del Ros and the Provincial Command of Naples.
His death was decided by his own clan, in particular three people considered to be at the top of the Licciardi clan to whom the military of the Arma and the District Anti-Mafia Directorate now contest the crimes of mafia association, extortion, murder, possession and illegal carrying of firearms, aggravated as committed to facilitate the Licciardi clan and the Secondigliano Alliance.
According to the reconstruction of the carabinieri, Esposito was the victim of a "punishment of honor": he was lured into a wooded and impervious area of Naples, in the Chiaiano district, where there are several abandoned tuff quarries, shot dead and his corpse dissolved in acid by some affiliates of the Polverino-Simioli clan, rib of the Nuvoletta clan, who used techniques of 'white lupara' learned from the Palermo mafia.
It is - it has been ascertained thanks to interceptions, stalking and repentance - the same practices of concealment of corpses for dissolution in acid used by Cosanostra in 1984 to make disappear on behalf of the boss Lorenzo Nuvoletta the corpses of Vittorio and Luigi Vastarella, GennaroSalvi, Gaetano Di Costanzo and Antonio Mauriello.
For the murders of those five people, which took place in Maranodi Naples on September 19, 1984 as part of the Dicamorra war between the criminal families Gionta-Nuvoletta and Alfieri-Bardellino, the superboss Salvatore Riina was definitively convicted as principal. (ANSA).