The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia (35 page)

Vogel, Bernhard,
123

von Trotta, Margarethe,
31

Waste disposal,
216

Weddings,
204

Wiretaps,
57
,
138–139
,
142
,
143
,
154
,
167
,
169
.
See also
Bugs

Witness regulations at trials,
135
,
136–137
,
210

Women,
46–47
,
54
,
60
,
103
,
146
,
155–156
,
159–177
,
193

Calabrian Mafia women,
188

Cosa Nostra women,
187–188

first female boss,
169

first Sicilian woman accused of Mafia membership,
173

honor killings of unfaithful wives,
180

Mafia wives,
17–18
,
47
,
55–56
,
102
,
156
,
166
,
167
,
170
,
173–174
,
182
,
183–186
,
193
,
194
,
197
,
199
,
241
(
see also
Women: widows
)

only woman lawyer defending Mafia bosses,
201
,
208

of San Luca,
167

as
sorella d’omertà
,
167

widows,
30–33
,
72
,
83
,
179

Women against the Mafia (committee),
162

See also
Mangano, Vittorio: daughters of

Zecchin, Franco,
67
,
72