This was the Italian mobster who melted his victims into acid (Photo)

Toto Riina's father was killed when he was 13, and at the age of 19, he joined the local mafia, committing his first murder to gain the honour of the mafia organisation.

Riina seized control of the Cosa Nostra crime group in the 1970s. His reputation for atrocities received the nickname “Bisha”, reports “BBC”, report Periscope.

He spent almost a quarter of a century avoiding justice by remaining on the island of Sicily all the time.

He was the real Godfather of life, thought to have ordered the killing of more than 150 people, died at 87, according to Italian media reports.

Gangster or otherwise known as “bos of bosses” Toto Riina died at 87, according to Italian media reports,

He was one of the most violent parents in the history of the Sicilian mafia.

The 87-year-old has been sentenced to 26 life sentences since 1993. He's supposed to have ordered over 150 murders.

The profile men he had ordered their murders are known as the 1992 one of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who had worked fearlessly to bring more than 300 mafias to court in 1987.

Riina, which also came to be called “Gigi” due to its height of 5 meters (1.58), for years denied all links to the crime group.

He was caught in a wiretap earlier this year, saying that that “does not regret”. “They will never break me, even if they give me 3,000 years” he said in prison.

He is believed to have killed for the first time on the Mafia when he was 19.

Riina continued to work for the mafia organization in 1969, but continued to hide the Corleone clan, increasing its influence but rejecting rivals such as Philippo Marchese, a murderer who tore his victims into a <x0-bed death plant”.

Riina would avoid police efforts to capture him almost a quarter of a century before ever leaving Sicily élia and claimed responsibility for Cosa Nostra's key businesses, from drug trafficking to kidnapping and robbery, reports “Nesa”, broadcast Periscope.

But violence does not end there: from behind the belts Riina ordered the murder of a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in an attempt to stop his father from running Mafia secrets. He drowned and his body was wasted in acid.

In retaliation for the arrest of Riina and a new anti-mafious law that carried the isolated traces of prisoners, the group launched a series of explosions in Rome, Milan and Florence that killed 10 people.

After years in which only his lawyers were allowed to visit him, an aging and cancer - threatened Riina demanded that he be released from prison in July 2017 because of the serious illness of a denied request.

On Thursday, days after being established in a medical coma by prison doctors, Italy's Health Minister Andrea Orlando allowed Riina's family to visit him and say goodbye.

Gangster was married to Antoniette Bagarella, a teacher from a Mafia family. He was the father of four children, one of whom stands behind bars for four murders./Periscopi/