On August 17, 1981, during the open yard exercise in the courtyard of Badu 'e Carros, the high security prison in Nuoro, Sardinia, Turatello was ambushed by the NCO hitman Pasquale Barra, Vincenzo Andraous and the well known assassins from Catania Salvatore Maltese and Antonino Faro. Turatello was unable to escape the ambush. Barra and Andraus held Turatello, while Faro and Maltese stabbed him sixty times. In the ensuing confusion from the attack, Andraous was also wounded and would later receive minor surgery in the prison infirmary.Jacquemet, Credibility in Court, pp. 70 The reason for such a terrible killing, indicative of a heavy guilt inside the mob environment, is still unknown now.
