Pupetta Maresca weds Italian wiseguy Pasqualone Simonetti in 1955. She'd go on to avenge his mob slay with a bloody hit of her own, and became a mafiosa celebrity in later years. Bettmann Archive See ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the widow of a Naples organized crime boss who was convicted of gunning down her husband’s ...

On Aug. 4, 1955, Assunta Maresca — 20 years old and six months pregnant — took a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver and, in broad daylight on a busy avenue in Naples, pumped its contents into the body of the ...

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ROMEROME — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the widow of a Naples organized crime boss who was convicted of gunning down her husband’s presumed killer for revenge, later challenged a powerful Camorra clan ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the ...