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The godmother : murder, vengeance, and the bloody struggle of mafia women

The untold stories of the women who have risen to prominence and notoriety in Italy's mafia - many more ruthless than the fathers and husbands they replaced - and the octogenarian murderer who decades ago blazed a bloody trail for them to follow. In 1955 in a public market outside Naples, Italy, a pregnant teenage widow named Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca encounters the man she believes to be her husband's killer. Minutes later, police find the man dead, riddled with an astonishing 29 bullets. Pupetta is arrested and convicted for his death. “I killed for love,” she declares in court, “and I'd do it again!” She is heralded “Lady Camorra,” and in prison she takes on legendary stature, with films and TV shows produced to capitalize on her outlaw image. The crime and even the killing does not stop there for Pupetta, and though she is arguably the first mafia godmother, she is not the worst.

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