ITALY
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A MONSIGNOR. A murder. A missing treasure. It’s a mysterious crime that has gripped Italy. But now the story of April 25, 2014, is about to be told.
It was 7.30am. Housekeeper Eleanora Dibitonto knocked on the door to Monsignor Giuseppe Rocco’s small, Spartan room, in a manse in Trieste. It was her job to make sure the frail 92-year-old would wake in time for morning mass.
This morning, there was no response.
So Eleanora opened the door. She saw Rocco lying, fully dressed, on his back on the floor.
He was dead.
First she called an ambulance. Then she called another priest.
Father Paolo Piccoli, 52, gave Rocco his last rites.
But when the ambulance officers arrived, they noticed something odd.
The dead clergyman had a broken bone sticking out of his neck. Then two spots of blood were seen under his body.
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