Raffaele Cutolo

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Raffaele Cutolo
Cutolo behind bars in 1986
Born	(1941-11-04)4 November 1941 Ottaviano, Kingdom of Italy
Died	17 February 2021 (aged 79) Parma, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Other names	'o Professore ("the professor")
Occupation	Founder of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Criminal status	Deceased
Relatives	Rosetta Cutolo (sister)
Criminal charge	Murder
Penalty	Life imprisonment

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").^[1] Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived entirely in maximum-security prisons or psychiatric prisons after 1963.^[2] At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder.