caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date known_for image article_title name death_cause
rita atria july 26 , 1992 rome partanna , sicily -lrb- italy -rrb- italian september 4 , 1974 government witness against the sicilian mafia rita atria.jpg rita atria
 rita atria suicide after the murder of her protector paolo borsellino
rita atria

rita atria -lrb- partanna , september 4 , 1974 - rome , july 26 , 1992 -rrb- was a witness in a major mafia investigation in sicily , breaking the omertà - code of silence .
she committed suicide in july 1992 , a week after the mafia killed the prosecutor paolo borsellino , with whom she had been working .
