The Life and Times of the Sicilian Robin Hood

A crowd views the body of Giuliano

The body of Salvatore Giuliano lay in the courtyard for some hours looked on by a crowd of Castelvetran citizens, many of them young boys from the neighborhood.� His mother was brought from Montelepre to identify her son, now laid out, naked, on a slab in the morgue.� The body was surrounded by blocks of ice, since the July days were typically hot.�

Two weeks passed.� Daily, crowds would come into the morgue to view the naked body.� Finally, on the afternoon of July 19, 1950, Giuliano was laid to rest in an above-ground crypt in the cemetery of Montelepre.� There were no bells tolling.� Those present were only seven family members and the police.� All others were forbidden to attend.� The simple marble slab said only "Salvatore Giuliano, 1922-1950."

So, at the foot of the mountains that he ruled, the King of the Mountain was laid to rest.

The crypt where Giuliano was laid to rest

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