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...teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Montesi Affair | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

First Suspicion. In a cool, well-modulated voice, she explained that two days before Wilma's death, Ugo ordered her to go back to Milan. "When I asked him why, he said that he had a hunting date in Capocotto with Piero Piccioni." Three days later she returned to Rome, and she and Ugo drove down to the hunting lodge. There the gamekeeper's wife remarked that she had seen Wilma's body and was surprised that it was not swollen or battered. Anna Maria Caglio felt a sudden suspicion. She thought back to a time three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Montesi Affair | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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