prison in Nuoro, Sardinia. He is believed to have retained significant influence from behind bars, including commissioning the 1977 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Russo. Leggio had ordered the 1979 killing of Judge Terranova as a revenge for the insult at the interrogation in the 1960s; the murder was approved by the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Leggio was charged with ordering Terranova's murder, but was acquitted for lack of evidence, both in the first trial, which was held in Reggio Calabria in 1983, and three years later, in 1986, in the appeal process. By the end of the 1970s, his lieutenant Salvatore Riina was in control of the Corleonesi clan. In the Maxi Trial of 1986/87, the jury rejected the prosecution's call for 15 years' imprisonment for Leggio, and the jury acquitted him of four murders that prosecutors charged he had masterminded from his jail cell in Sardinia. On 15 November 1993, he died in prison from a heart attack, aged 68. He is buried in Corleone. In popular culture Placido Rizzotto, a 2000 biopic by Pasquale Scimeca. Leggio is played by Vincenzo Albanese. L'ultimo dei corleonesi, a 2007 TV film. Leggio is played by Stefano Dionisi. Il Capo dei Capi, a 2007 Italian TV series. Leggio is played by Claudio Castrogiovanni.The Traitor, a 2019 Italian film by Marco Bellocchio. Leggio is played by Vincenzo Pirrotta. Dickie, John (2004). Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Coronet, (Review in the Observer, February 15, 2004) Sterling, Claire (1990). Octopus. How the long reach of the Sicilian Mafia controls the global narcotics trade, New York: Simon & Schuster, Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic'', New York: Vintage References External links Luciano Leggio, l'ex «primula rossa», La Sicilia, August 21, 2005 Report of Leggio's funeral 1925 births 1993 deaths Corleonesi Italian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment People convicted of murder by Italy People acquitted of murder Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Italy Prisoners who died in Italian detention Sicilian Mafia Commission Sicilian mafiosi