"Infamous Italian Mafia Boss Messina Denaro Succumbs to Cancer After Capture"
TL;DR
Matteo Messina Denaro, an Italian Mafia boss who was convicted of multiple murders and spent 30 years on the run, has died of cancer at the age of 61. He was suffering from colon cancer at the time of his arrest in January and his condition worsened in recent weeks. Messina Denaro was found guilty of planning the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992, as well as bombings and kidnappings. Despite his notoriety, prosecutors doubted that he became the Mafia "boss of bosses."
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