Experts try to identify Mafia don's helpers

Forensic experts today continued to search the final hideout of reputed Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano for clues that might identify people who helped him hide from authorities for more than 40 years.

Provenzano, Italy's number-one fugitive, was arrested in a rundown farmhouse just outside of his hometown of Corleone, Sicily, on Tuesday.

Experts were searching for any clues, such as fingerprints or DNA traces, that might help identify individuals who helped conceal Provenzano’s whereabouts, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Police arrested three people yesterday accused of aiding the fugitive by delivering notes about the administration of Cosa Nostra affairs on the island.

Many of the so-called “pizzini” were written in code to conceal the identities of those he dealt with, ANSA reported.

Experts also were using infrared equipment to search for tunnels on the property where he was found and to try to locate any documents he may have hidden there, ANSA said.