Rocco Lo Presti

The Alfa Romeo 1750 owned by Lo Presti was found at the scene of the crime.

Oppedisano confessed, but he never revealed the motive.

Lo Presti instead had an unassailable alibi.

He was flying on a plane to southern Italy.

Rocco Lo Presti (born Rocco Lopresti May 6, 1937 – January 23, 2009), known in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, his town of origin as "Roccu u Maneja", was an Italian crime boss of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy, but his criminal base was Bardonecchia, in Piedmont region.

Lo Presti was born on May 6, 1937, in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica from a humble peasant family.

The father Salvatore Lopresti and the mother Maria Caterina Femia make do as they can, working the land.

The first of eight children, he leaves elementary school very early and joins his uncle, in close contact with the capobastone (head of command) of Gioiosa Ionica, Rocco Amleto Monteleone, known as " Roccu u Regginu ", managing the business of his uncle and Monteleone, in the market fruit first, and market fish after.

At the age of 16, he left Calabria and moved to Piedmont together with his cousins, the Mazzaferro brothers.

In 1957 he was arrested in Casale Monferrato for selling counterfeit money, together his cousin Cosimo Ierinò, known as " Cosimu u Caddara".

In 1963 he was sent to stay in soggiorno obbligato in Bardonecchia and booming construction puts on a small construction company.

In September of the same year, Mario Corino, unionist and future mayor of Bardonecchia was attacked and beaten at night by strangers.

The police arrested for the attack, two calabrese workers.

Francesco Ursino, brother-in-law of Lo Presti, and Antonio Zucco, originally from Ciminà.

Questioned by the judge, the two declared to have beaten Corino, because he was an Italian Labor Union spy.

Lo Presti had been the instigator.

In 1965 he was arrested in Geneva by the Swiss gendarmery, with Alberto Re, an entrepreneur of Bardonecchia, for a series of thefts in the villas.

They were arrested for the last shot they took.

Theft of 60 million jewels inside a judge's villa.

He was tried and sentenced to two years imprisonment.

In 1968, Lo Presti returned to Bardonecchia and married a compaesana in one of the most luxurious hotels in the city, the Grand Hotel Riky.

Among the guests, the well-known American boss Frank Coppola (mobster) known as Frank Tree Fingers and the Gambinos of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

In December 1969 he was suspected as the instigator of the Timpano murder.

At Exilles, along the Val di Susa provincial road, the body of Vincenzo Timpano from Grotteria, Calabria was found.

He was killed by his brother-in-law Giuseppe Oppedisano, who in turn is a brother-in-law of Rocco Lo Presti.

The body was sprinkled with gasoline and set on fire.

In June 1970, just six months later, he was again suspected as the instigator of the D'Aguanno murder.

The body of Luigi D'Aguanno was found in an abandoned landfill at Moncalieri, a professional fence just released from prison.

Someone said he paid a tip to the police with his life.

The police arrested for the murder, Carmine Messina on the car owned by Lo Presti.

Also that time Lo Presti was flying on a plane bound for Calabria,but was acquitted of all charges.

On May 1, 1971, on Workers' Day in a bar in Turin, a group of Calabrese immigrants engaged in a gunfight.

One of whom was Carmelo Manti who left four dead on the ground.

They were arms merchants who demanded payment of a bribe which Manti owed them almost 2 million lire.

Among the dead was Giuseppe Prochilo.

He was a boss of the building racket and the Lo Presti's right-hand man.

This massacre lifted the veil and broke the silence in the building racket.

Manti, revealed information on the racket.

He revealed tenders and subcontracts, exploitation, bribes.

He revealed the names of the bosses who controlled the racket.