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...others who claimed to have known Pedro talked to the police and to the press, a vivid picture began to emerge of the strange, solitary life of the man who may have been Mengele. Ernesto Glawe, an Argentine-born engineer with a German father, described in a deposition how he had been drawn into the expatriate circles of Gerhard and the Bosserts. Only one year after that initial meeting, said Glawe, Gerhard asked him if he would help an old Austrian friend. Somewhat taken aback at this request, Glawe eventually acquiesced and began paying monthly visits to the aging Pedro...
...gained further dimension as neighbors of the Stammers from their days at Serra Negra began to speak up. Some remembered how he would climb to the top of an eight-foot observation tower on the farm and scan the horizon through binoculars. Basilio Silotto, a farm worker, reported that Pedro had told him once that Hitler was a great man. When a defective person was born, the old European confided to Silotto in tones reminiscent of the Auschwitz researcher, he would soon vanish...
Those who had run across the man in his final years in Sao Paulo described him as lonely; he received visits only occasionally, from a son whom he introduced as a nephew and from a family emissary, apparently Hans Sedlmeier, the Mengele firm clerk. Pedro got no mail, kept no telephone and maintained no bank accounts. He slept with a Mauser pistol by his bedside, according to some reports; often he had difficulty getting to sleep and read or wrote deep into the night...
...final years, according to Sao Paulo papers, Pedro fell in love with a housemaid, Elza Gulpian de Oliveira. But as the thin-faced, 34-year-old woman told it last week, the old man persistently refused to marry her, without explaining why. When she married another man in 1978, Pedro moped and pined. The last image of Pedro, from another former maid, Ines Mehlich, was his valediction as he left on his fatal seaside trip with the Bosserts in 1979: "I'm going to the beach because my life is ending...
...these details emerged, of course, from nothing more than personal reminiscences of Pedro. Still, the accounts of different witnesses did overlap in many details, all portraying an old man passing a somewhat joyless life of solitary introspection. "Given that many of the witnesses are virtually illiterate peasants," said Superintendent Tuma, "it is extremely unlikely they are participants in an elaborate international conspiracy...