A woman who took on the mafia, paid with her life and won This week I’m writing about a murder that happened in my southern Italian city — and the woman who died fighting the mafia to protect a park I walk through every week. Walking along the cliffs of the Ionian coasts, past centuries-old watch towers, climbing over rocks wet from sea spray, stopping to swim in the clear, blue-green water, you’d probably miss a small red tribute bench on one of the trails. It’s there to com