Word: icardi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting before the fireplace, Icardi and LoDolce decided not to take a chance on the poison. They tossed a coin. LoDolce lost. He was handed a 9-mm. Beretta automatic, and crept up the stairs. The others followed behind. LoDolce shoved open the door. "What's the matter?" asked Holohan, sitting up in bed. LoDolce fired two shots into the major's head...
...murderers worked swiftly. While Icardi wrapped a towel around Holohan's head to stop the blood, the two partisans wrapped the body in a sleeping bag, stuffed in the major's clothes and guns, and lugged their burden down to the lake. Manini had a boat waiting. The partisans weighted the bag with a stone and shoved off. About 100 yards from shore, they slipped the body of Major William V. Holohan into the icy waters of Lake Orta...
...Lieut. Icardi, after the war, finished law school at the University of Pittsburgh, went to Peru for further legal study, several months ago returned to the U.S., and was working for Pan-American Grace Airways in New York when the case broke last week. After the three confessions naming him had been made, he was never officially questioned about the case. In the past year, stories of how Holohan died appeared in the Italian press, and there were a few very incomplete hints in the U.S. press. But the details might never have been told if True magazine...
Manini and Tozzini are awaiting trial in Italy, and last week the Italian government considered asking that LoDolce and Icardi be extradited from the U.S. to be tried with them...
Whereupon Icardi made a point which, whether he is guilty or innocent, has considerable force. Said he: "It is unthinkable that an American espionage agent should be brought to trial by the very enemy against which he fought." Icardi said that he would fight extradition, but was ready and eager to stand trial in a U.S. court. He even offered to go back into the Army to make that possible. The Government, however, still said that no U.S. court could try him, even if he went back into the Army...