"Infamous Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro Dies in Custody, Ending Decades on the Run"

Matteo Messina Denaro, a notorious Mafia boss who had been on the run for three decades, has died in a hospital prison ward in Italy. He was captured in January 2023 after investigators tracked him down through Italy's national health system database, where they discovered he was receiving chemotherapy under an alias. Messina Denaro, convicted of numerous murders including the bombings that killed anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, refused to cooperate with prosecutors and took his secrets to the grave. He had been serving multiple life sentences for his crimes and was receiving treatment for colon cancer before his death.