The mafia boss known as O’ Ninno, or ‘the baby’ for his youthful good looks, was only 20 when he claims to have killed Ciro Nuvoletta, the brother of a rival boss with strong links to the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra, in 1984. It was the first of many murders he either carried out or ordered. On the same day of Nuvoletta’s killing Iovine said he was formally inducted into the Casalesi clan through a traditional bloodletting ritual and oath before two bosses to never betray the clan.