http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39724114/ns/world_news-europe/?gt1=43001MILAN — A mafia informant who disappeared nearly a year ago was tortured and her body dissolved in acid by her former partner and other family members angry that she had cooperated with authorities, Italian police said Monday.
The woman, 35-year old Lea Garofalo, was forced onto a truck carrying 50 liters of acid, interrogated by her abductors and later killed in a field near Milan in the night between Nov. 24 and Nov. 25, 2009, investigators told reporters.
Investigators said Cosco, who fathered Garofalo's daughter, was behind the murder and that this was meant as revenge for the woman having provided information to anti-mafia prosecutors between 2002 and 2009.
He said the fact that the murder was carried out near Milan, where the Cosco family owned property, underscored the deep penetration of Italy's financial hub by mafia groups.
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