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Marble Steps

Lobby of an office building in Milan, 1995, with a marble staircase and the doorman's booth.

Milan, Monday, March 27, 1995, 11 am. At 8:30 am, Lorenzo Brancati, 46, heir to the Brancati fashion house, was shot four times on the marble steps of his office building.

Suspects

• Ludovica FerrarisInterior decorator, the victim's partner, wedding set for May, 39
• Arturo BellandiBuilding doorman, wounded in the arm, 58
• Gilda MoscatelliThe victim's ex-wife and mother of his two daughters, 46

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Torch in the Net

Art gallery of a Vienna museum in 2003, morning, with the central display case shattered and empty.

Vienna, Sunday, 11 May 2003, 9:00 am. In a large art museum on the Ringstrasse, its facade covered in renovation scaffolding, curator Hedwig Lanz found room 37 open to the wind at 8:20 am.

Suspects

• Gernot PfeilerTechnician at the company that maintains the museum alarm, 47
• Wilma StrasserNight guard at the museum, who reset the alarm, 56
• Radko MrázekSite foreman of the firm renovating the facade, 52

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Bone Scalpel

Baroque oratory in Palermo in 1969, at dusk, with an empty gilded frame above the altar.

Palermo, Saturday, October 18, 1969, 6 pm. In a baroque oratory in the Kalsa district, all white stucco, with no alarm and no guard, the caretaker Agata Mirabella came to open up at 3 pm for the novena.

Suspects

• Agata MirabellaCaretaker of the oratory, who lives in the house built against it, 66 years old
• Tindaro LojaconoRestorer and framer from Via Alloro, hired to estimate the cleaning of the painting, 44 years old
• Elio PartannaMason who replaced the oratory's roof tiles and gutter, 31 years old

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Crushed Crown

Jewel room in a London stone tower, 1671, with a golden sceptre fallen on the floor.

London, 9 May 1671, 8:00 am. In the basement of one of the towers of the royal fortress of London, the jewel room stands with its grille open and smells of stone dust.

Suspects

• Susanna FothergillDaughter of the keeper of the jewels, betrothed to the reverend's nephew, 24
• Nathaniel CrabtreeGate guard of the fortress who writes the entry book, 41
• Josiah PendlefordCountry reverend, friend of the family and uncle of the fiancé, 52

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The Collector Grate

Vault room of a Nice bank in 1976, with the boxes forced open and a hole in the floor.

Nice, Monday, July 20, 1976, 9:00 am. At 8:30, the manager of a large bank on the main avenue, Edmond Varenne, could not open the vault room door: it was jammed from the inside by a welded iron brace.

Suspects

• Aristide MontanéAntiques dealer from Vieux-Nice and holder of box no. 112, 46
• Pascaline RoubaudAssistant manager in charge of the vault room, 51
• Marius AgostiniSewer company foreman for the avenue sector, 38

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