The Public Prosecutor of Catania, after reporting the daughter of Mauro De Mauro, Franca, will arrange a comparative DNA examination of the human remains found in a cave on Etna to verify if they are those of the missing journalist. De Mauro disappeared under his house in Palermo on September 16, 1970. Franca De Mauro contacted the Guardia di Finanza of Catania which is investigating to trace the identity of the remains of a man found in a cave on the slopes of Etna.
The woman, reading in the media that the remains discovered would go back to a period compatible with the disappearance of her father and that the corpse would have malformations in the nose and mouth, wanted to report her case to the investigators to give them an investigative input. However, De Mauro did not recognize any object found next to the body,dressed in a suit and tie.
Also in the pockets of the dress there was a comb and the woman ruled out that her father would take it with him.
At the moment the De Mauro family has not made any application through its lawyers, the lawyers Giuseppe and Andrea Crescimanno.
The disappearance of the journalist is a mystery that has never been resolved: among the leads followed over the years by the investigators there was also the mafia one.
The boss Totò Riina was tried and acquitted of murder charges.
Investigators have long probed the hypothesis that De Mauro, who collaborated in the making of Rosi's film on the death of Enrico Mattei, had discovered his motive and authors and that for this reason he was killed by Cosa Nostra, the material perpetrator of a deliberate crime. from others.