On June 27, 1980, Itavia Flight 870, a passenger jet, crashs into the Tyrrhenian Sea (between the islands of Ponza and Ustica): 81 people die. What is the accident due to? Is it due to a missile, a bomb or other?
On November 2, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini is killed on the beach at Ostia. Pino Pelosi, seventeen years old, confesses the murder. Did Pelosi act alone or with accomplices? And why?
On August 2, 1980, a time-bomb placed at the Bologna station kills 85 people and wounds 200. After many years, neo-fascist terrorists Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro are sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1975, Alceste Campanile (left-wing activist) is killed in the countryside near Reggio Emilia. After 24 years, Paolo Bellini (former right-wing militant) will confess the murder.
Between 1968 and 1985, eight double murder cases took place in the province of Florence. In 1994 Pietro Pacciani is sentenced to life imprisonment for seven double murder, but two years after is acquitted for not having committed the crime.
On December 12, 1996, the Italian supreme court cancels Pietro Pacciani's acquittal, ordering a new trial. A new investigation and a new trial led to the sentence of Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti.
On January 8, 1993, journalist Beppe Alfano dies killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (near Messina). After 10 years, only one boss, considered the crime's instigator, will be sentenced.
In 1992, the Italian supreme court sentences many Sicilian Mafia bosses to life imprisonment. Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino are murdered for revenge.
