December 20, 1941 - Raffaele Cutolo
Cutolo built the Nuova Camorra Organizzata largely from within prison, recruiting inmates and establishing a hierarchy that at its height rivaled the power of the Sicilian Mafia in southern Italy. His nicknames — the Gospel, the Prince, the Professor, the Monk — reflect the quasi-religious and intellectual authority he cultivated, which was central to how he commanded loyalty. The NCO's rise and the brutal turf wars it triggered reshaped organized crime in Campania during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Raffaele Cutolo (Italian: [raffaˈɛːle ˈkuːtolo]; 4 November 1941 – 17 February 2021) was an Italian crime boss and leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo had a variety of nicknames including 'o Vangelo ("the gospel"), 'o Princepe ("the prince"), 'o Professore ("the professor") and 'o Monaco ("the monk"). Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived entirely in maximum-security prisons or psychiatric prisons after 1963. At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder.
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