Italian assassins, Italian female murderers, Italian people convicted of murder, Italian serial killers, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Raffaele Cutolo, Cesare Battisti, Salvatore Riina, Carlo Gesualdo, Fernando de Rosa, Charles DeRudio
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Raffaele Cutolo (born December 20, 1941) is an Italian crime boss
and the charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO),
an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo has a variety
of nicknames including "'o Vangelo" (the gospel),
"'o Principe" (the prince), "'o
Professore" (the professor) and "'o Monaco" (the
monk). Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo has lived inside
maximum-security jails or psychiatric prisons since 1963. He is
serving multiple life sentences for murder. Cutolo was born in
Ottaviano, a municipality in the hinterland of Naples, in a family
without ties in the Camorra. His fatherless youth was spent in a
close-knit Catholic environment. His father was an agricultural
labourer who for years tilled a field as a sharecropper as a means
to support his family. While still a child, the landowner told
Cutolo's father that the following year the field would be used
for a different purpose and that his services were no longer
required. In desperation, his father turned to the local Camorra
boss, whose word was law in the village. The boss invited the
Cutolo family to his home and promised to settle everything. A
short time later, the landowner changed his mind and the contract
was renewed. A bad student, violent and inattentive, at 12 Cutolo
was already roaming the streets with a gang of teenagers,
committing petty burglaries and harassing shopkeepers. As soon as
he could drive he bought a car, both for prestige and because it
allowed him greater mobility in his raids. At the age of 21, on
February 24, 1963, he committed his first homicide. He killed a man
whose girlfriend had been slapped by Cutolo due to an alleged
insult. In the ensuing fight, Cutolo pulled out a gun and shot him
to death. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment,
reduced to 24 years after appeal. He was sent to Poggioreale prison
in Naples. Entering the prison world on a murder conviction made
Cutolo a "tough guy". In prison Cutolo learned the rules
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