Lupara bianca

Lupara bianca is a journalistic term to indicate a mafia slaying done in such a way that the victim's body is never found.^[1][2]

Typical ways to carry out a lupara bianca include burying a victim in the open countryside or in remote places in which it would be difficult to find it, or burying the victim in the concrete found in construction sites, or dissolving the body in acid and throwing the remains in the sea: this latter method was widely used by the Corleonesi faction during the Second Mafia War.^[3] The lupara bianca practice is used because it prevents the family of the victim from holding a proper funeral in absence of a body, and is also used to destroy evidence that might point to the killers' identities. The term comes from the lupara, a weapon typically associated with the Sicilian mafia.

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