Peppino, 30, was murdered by an explosion in 1978. The authorities classified the death as an accident or suicide, but his friends refused to accept this judgment. Please keep in mind that this is a factual tale. The case has been reopened more than two decades after Peppino's death. He was working on a movie at the time of his death and had just finished shooting a scene on a beach near Palermo. The director had told him that there would be another take because the wind was not right. However, during this second shootout, something went wrong with the camera battery and it started to smoke. Another colleague tried to put out the fire but failed. When Peppino reached for the battery box, it exploded, killing him instantly. There were no witnesses to this incident. The movie company wanted to cover up the murder, so they said that he died in an accident. His family agreed that he should be buried in the same cemetery as their father, who had also died young. But when they opened his coffin, they found his body burned black and some bones sticking out of his skin. An official report published in 1979 stated that there was no evidence of violence on the body and that it could have been an accident, but many people still doubt this conclusion. Peppino Di Caprio was born on January 4th, 1949 in New York City.