Panic Room
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 154 of 200.
Monte Carlo, Friday, December 10, 1999, 10 am. In the security room on the ground floor of the Résidence Les Aloès, the alarm panel is still blinking red. Upstairs, the 7th-floor penthouse smells of smoke.
At 4:46 am the night nurse called the front desk: two masked men had broken into the penthouse, wounded him and set it on fire. The police searched for the intruders for almost two hours.
When the firefighters opened the steel door of the panic room at 6:50 am, the banker Ambrogio Castelnuovo, 71, and the nurse Leonor Dizon were dead from smoke. There is no sign of forced entry anywhere.
Three people knew that home inside out. If there were no masked men, one of them set the penthouse on fire.
Security room of a luxury building in Monte Carlo, 1999, with monitors and a red alarm.
Suspects
Brigitte SauvageThe banker's head nurse, 46
Garrett PruittAmerican night-shift nurse, former paratrooper, 41
Lucien OrsattiFamily head of security, former Corsican gendarmegendarme Police officer from a military force with civilian duties, typical of France and other countries., 55
The real case
The death of banker Edmond Safra in the penthouse fire
Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1999
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