In 2002, Lea decided to collaborate with the Italian police, revealing remarkable information related to the internal feud that counter-posed the Garofalo and the Cosco families.

Additionally, she claimed her brother-in-law Giuseppe Cosco, nicknamed Totonno U lupu, had killed Floriano in the courtyard of Lea's home.

In April 2009, she suddenly ended any concerns with the protection program and chose to change her contacts in Petilia Policastro, while remaining in Campobasso in order to allow Denise to finish the scholastic year.

With regards to the disposal of her body, Carmine Venturino, after his first degree sentence, began to reveal a series of details which allowed the Italian police to find Lea's bones and more than 2,000 other fragments.

[12] On 23 November 2011, Paola Severino appointed the court president Filippo Grisolla as the Cabinet Chief of Italian Minister of Justice and Grace, thus making the process null.

Due to the legal incompatibility between the two chairs, the defense barristers asked and achieved the annulment of the whole procedure, including the tests' declarations.

[14] After the Venturino's declarations, Lea's remains were found in San Fruttuoso, at an archaeological excavation with the involvement of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Milan.

More specifically, the life imprisonment was confirmed for Carlo and Vito Cosco, Rosario Curcio and Massimo Sabatino; Carmine Sabatino was sentenced to 25 years of prison, while Giuseppe Cosco was absolved not to have committed the crime; additionally, the Court ordered the economic reparation in favor to the civil parts of the process: Lea Garofalo's mother, daughter Denise, sister Marisa, and to the Municipality of Milan.

Novembre 2009 – Milano With commendable dedication and still conscious of the risk to which she exhibited herself, she rose up against the context in which she had been grown up, affected by criminalities and educational deviant behaviors, meanwhile opting to cooperate with the Police Forces, revealing information about homicides and extortions.