 The longest sentence was handed to Angelo La Barbera, who was given twenty-two-years for ordering the kidnap and murder of two rival mobsters who had vanished in 1963 after they were seen being bundled off the streets; someone who witnessed the kidnapping testified for the prosecution despite death threats, one of the few witnesses to do so.Tommaso Buscetta was given a thirteen-year sentence for kidnapping the men but his conviction was "in absentia" because he was not present at the trial.He had fled Sicily after the Ciaculli Massacre to avoid the inevitable crackdown.