Word: maddalena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make his fortune. After a while he came home and married an Italian girl. They settled in southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
...care for her Benedetto went hungry and in rags. In the hospital Maddalena grew worse, and wrenching spasms of pain made her scream again and again "Ammazzatemi! [Kill...
When Benedetto inherited 200,000 francs from a brother in the U.S., he brought Maddalena home and bought her enormous quantities of morphine, but the agony went on. "Buy a gun and do it," she pleaded. "If you die before I do, I'll never forgive you." Finally, he bought...
...night last October, Benedetto knelt beside her bed and together they recited a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Maddalena unfastened her shift and Benedetto fired into her breast, killing her almost instantly. He ran into the street weeping. His neighbors wept with him, as did the policemen who led him to jail...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...