NP - Good Grist for Fiction

[David Morris]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=1850713

Man Found Dead 44 Years After 'Trip to U.S.' 
Wed December 4, 2002 10:40 AM ET 

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian man who packed his bags 44 years ago and told
friends he was leaving for America was found dead inside one of the walls of
his home.

An American woman who recently bought the house near Lucca in northern Tuscany
discovered the body Tuesday as she was carrying out renovations, police said.

Inside a thick wall in the cellar the woman found human remains, two packed
suitcases, a trowel and other equipment to make a wall, a rusted rifle and a
bottle with a suicide note.

The note, on paper headed with the name Nemo Cianelli, explained that the man
had discovered he had an incurable disease and had decided to kill himself. He
said he had invented the tale of going to America to avoid upsetting his
family.

Local newspapers reported in 1958 that Cianelli was missing, and speculated
that he might have gone to America, but after a period of rumor and mystery,
the story was forgotten.

Police said it appeared Cianelli had packed his suitcases, written the suicide
note, built a wall up around himself and then shot himself.


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