Riina, also known as “the beast”, was held in a medically induced coma after he did not recover from recent surgery. On Thursday, on his 87th birthday, ...

A ruthless Sicilian mob boss known as “The Beast” — who once ordered a hit on Rudy Giuliani and had a 13-year-old boy dissolved in acid — could soon be sprung from an ... Riina, 86, has ...

Salvatore “the Beast” Riina, the Sicilian mafia godfather who ordered the killings of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as politicians and mobsters, has died. He had turned ...

Salvatore Riina, the Mafia’s murderous “boss of bosses,” who earned multiple life sentences and the nickname the Beast for his cruelty and for unleashing a deadly war against law enforcement, ...

Riina was born in Corleone in 1930 and killed his first victim when he was 19 in order to join a mafia group. He was nicknamed "The Beast" when he was in charge of the Cosa Nostra syndicate, ...

Known as "The Beast," for his brutality, Riina was serving 26 life sentences in a prison in Parma for having ordered the deaths of more than 150 people between 1969 and 1992.

Mr. Riina, the Mafia’s murderous “boss of bosses,” earned multiple life sentences and the nickname the Beast for his cruelty and for unleashing a war against law enforcement that claimed the ...

Former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early Friday after battling cancer. Riina, who had been serving 26 life sentences ...

Mafia boss Salvatore Riina is escorted by Italian Carabinieri officers as he arrives at the court house in Palermo, Italy December 1, 1993 in this file photo. Nicknamed "boss of all bosses", Riina ...

Cosa Nostra’s “boss of bosses,” who was serving 26 life sentences as the convicted mastermind of dozens of murders of rivals for power on his Sicilian turf as well as prominent anti-Mafia ...

With Mafia king Toto Riina's death, and heir Matteo Messina Denaro on the run, is it game over for Sicily's once all-powerful Cosa Nostra? "Boss of bosses" Riina, who was nicknamed "The Beast ...