Barbarossa Sassina was the right hand man of the Agonni family. He was found dead along with other members of the family in a warehouse by the Merseyshore docks.
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Appearance[]
He had a goatee and a stout top hat with a white rose in it.
Personality[]
Barbarossa was a brutal assailant and a seasoned criminal, who was responsible for countless deaths of members of rival clans.
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Layton Brothers: Mystery Room[]
Case 006 (Kiss Goodbye)[]
The 39 years old Barbarossa Sassina, initially was very loyal to his boss, Severino Agonni, head of the Agonni family, serving as his right-hand man for many years, earning a reputation for his brutality in disposing of rival gang members.
However, he was eventually approached, seduced and manipulated by the malicious Diane Makepeace, who was planning for him to do her bidding like others before did. During their brief relationship, Diane made sure to be seen as little as possible by the other clan members, which coupled with her usual attire, lead to rumors among the mob of Sassina dating a ghost.
Eventually, despite knowing him only for a short while, Diane was able to convince Sassina into wiping out most of the upper echelon of the Agonni family. That is namely Severino Agonni himself, the strongman Pearce 'Blood' Boyle, and the newly recruited serial larcenist Angelo Fassi. The murders took place during Mr. Agonni staying in one of his warehouses at the Merseyshore Docks, converted into a temporary hideout, as ironically Agonni was lately fearing an assassination attempt.
Under the precise instructions of Diane, Sassina drugged a bottle of wine (using crushed up sleeping pills), which had been delivered alongside the lunch for himself and the rest of the gang by the Dale Herl's Deli's delivery-boy Uttar Mistry. She planned for him to kill each of the unconscious clan members in a copycat fashion of one of the first murders in the killing spree known as the Jigsaw Puzzle Killings.
However, Mr. Agonni did not end up drinking the wine, forcing Sassina to slightly diverge from the original plan to directly burn alive Agonni, thusly creating a faithful copy of the St. Florian's Torching. He instead firstly easily overpowered Agonni, strangling him with a rope noose so strongly it snapped his neck, and then setting him ablaze once he was already dead, hoping that the fire would burn the rope. Following this, he also strangled both the unconscious Boyle and Sassi, subsequently smashing the head of the latter under a heavy 32-inch analogue television set, creating a copy of the Case of Raymond Tube, while the former was instead stuffed inside the nearby industrial refrigerator, copying the Stiffin Abattoir Murder. Finally, he left one jigsaw puzzle piece, provided by Diane, next each one of his victims, copying the exact position where such puzzle pieces were found in the original delicts.
After the murders, Sassina contacted Diane, who was waiting at a nearby public call box, using the telephone in the office of Agonni, making sure to wipe his fingerprints from the device after using it. Upon arriving, Diane gave Sassina a long, passionate kiss, it being the ideal distraction for her to do three things: first, using the kiss itself, she slipped the same soporific substance that Barbarossa had used on his colleagues, into the man's own bloodstream; next, she sneakily placed a fourth, final puzzle piece inside one of his coat's pockets, and then finally, she stabbed him in the back with a jackknife laced with a deadly poison, thusly creating a near perfect copy of the Barbane Street Stabbing murder case.
Upon feeling the sharp pain of the stab, Sassina sprang up, and tried to flee; however, confused by the sudden betrayal of someone he trusted, and seeing a stranger at the entryway of the warehouse, (Uttar Mistry, who had returned to collect the trash as part of the delivery service policy) Barbarossa decided to forgoe escaping outside of the building, something Diane was hoping he would do, and instead slammed the heavy metal door of the room he previously was in, locking himself inside. During their brief struggle, Sassina broke the pearl necklace Diane was wearing, making two of the pearl beads bounce inside the room, and thusly inadvertently leaving behind evidence of Diane presence.
As both the poison and the sleeping drug began taking their effects, Barbarossa was not able to go far from the entrance door of the room. In his panic, he began searching his pockets, finding the puzzle piece left by Diane; as he collapsed to the floor, he finally truly understood how much Diane had played him for a fool, and in his rage, he used the last of his strength to crumple the puzzle piece in his fist, before passing away.
Despite the minor setbacks in her scheme, Diane was satisfied with the results, and after presumably retrieving any other loose pearl bead she could collect, proceeded with the next phase of her revenge plan. Meanwhile, Uttar Mistry, who had not realized that Sassina had died, briefly tried to go into hiding, believing that Barbarossa, who ironically was the idol of the young boy, would kill him for seemingly spying on the gangster while he was making out with his girlfriend. He later on even attempted to confess as the perpetrator of the murders under the misguided belief that he would be safe from Sassina while in jail.
Later on, after being released from police custody, Uttar was seen recounting the "heroic" deeds of his idol, to his friends.
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Trivia[]
- His name is play on two italian words, "Barbarossa" (literally "red-beard") and "asSassina" ("murderous").
