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Chapter 8

"I read your colleague's piece," Vittorio had said to me, "and I was a little perplexed."

"Why did she take credit for what was discovered at the Registry Office?"

"No, no, you know I told you myself to ask her to do that. I meant that, at the end of the article, she ventured a little too much: even if she doesn't express herself clearly, it almost seems as if she is insinuating that the owners of the company were demonists: she could get herself sued for moral damage, you know?"

"She’s not afraid of that, she’s insured like all journalists are, myself included: with our job, isn't hard to get yourself a lawsuit, you know?"

"Yes, but doing your best to get one..."

The Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Republic, Marcello Trentinotti, perhaps prompted by Carla's article, had urged Deputy Police Commissioner Pumpo, and he urged Sordi, to get hold of the results of the checks they’d started at the Employment Office as soon as possible. In the meantime, he had asked a registrar to gather all the data relating to the shower factory, Coniugi Corona & Figlio⁹ , from the archives of the Chamber of Commerce.

It turned out that not only two but all five of the victims had been employees of that company and, for some time, had worked together.

The company had been a family business that had ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Mother and son, Luigia and Attilio Corona, had been owners after their respective husband and father had died of a stroke in the late 1970s.

While the woman had been dead for some time, her son, a fifty-one-year-old man on a disability pension, an architect, had been tracked down and had been summoned to Prosecutor Trentinotti’s office, to be heard as a person of interest. The appointment had been scheduled for October 18 at 10 a.m.

Attilio Corona had arrived on time that morning.

A long conversation with Dr. Trentinotti had followed, recorded by a registrar.

Thanks to her contacts in Court, Carla had heard about the interview and another of her articles had appeared the following day.