
The sensational murder and trial made Pupetta a local legend. At the trial, she showed no remorse, batting her long eyelashes at the press and claiming she would “do it again.” At one point, Pupetta, then eight months pregnant, screamed, “I killed for love!” before dramatically collapsing in the courtroom. 4, 1955 - less than a month after her husband’s murder - Pupetta got her revenge, pelting Simonetti’s killer with 29 bullets outside a Naples coffee shop in broad daylight. The day she buried him, she later said, “I took Pasqualone’s gun from his nightstand and carried it with me from the day I buried him until the day I used it.” Pupetta, 18 years old and pregnant, rushed to his emergency-room bedside and wept as he slowly bled to death. Her beloved groom, Pasqualone Simonetti - a leader in Naples’ notorious Camorra crime family - was shot just months after their wedding. Long-hidden FBI files reveal slain Gambino boss’s stunning rise to powerĪssunta “Pupetta” Maresca would avenge her husband’s death. Kids as young as 10 in mob that ransacked Philly Wawa as new footage is released Wawa considers halting expansion plans after viral riot video: ‘Big problem on our hands’ Mobster’s son guilty of orchestrating dad’s McD’s murder goes pale, wife bursts into tears in dramatic courtroom scene
