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The Underworld Podcast

Italy's Unknown 5th Mafia, The Stidda

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1970s, as Sicily descended into all-out mafia war, the island’s allegiances split between the ruthless Corleonesi clan, led by Toto Riina, and southern gangsters fed up with Riina’s campaign of murder that was spilling innocent lives, and disgusting the Italian public. This schism would be the birth of the Stidda — Sicilian for ‘star’ — a group that fought and thrived for turf in southern Sicily, and became prominent enough that, even today, people know it as Italy’s “Fifth Mafia”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy.

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

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0:19.0

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0:22.4

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0:23.3

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0:36.4

with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that big arch sauce.

0:40.0

Hungry, you are now. the Big Arch is back, and this time it's here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce.

0:40.0

Hungry, you are now.

0:41.7

Order delivery on the McDonald's app.

0:45.1

Serve from 11am, upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders.

0:48.0

Subjects availability, price and participation may vary.

0:50.5

December 22nd, 1988.

0:53.2

The town of Gela, Sicily, is gearing up for Christmas. Tree in the main piazza,

0:58.9

lights up about town, prayers held at its quaint 17th century Franciscan Kiezer, the church.

1:06.4

It's a time for family, feast, and festivity, and perhaps, just perhaps, a chance to forget

1:14.2

the vicious blood feud that has strangled this town of 70,000 and horrified mainland Italy

1:20.0

for the past couple years. But as the phrase goes, things are never so bad that they cannot

1:26.4

get worse. And so it comes to

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