Word: tamburlani
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...years Italian police sought to discover who had sent Gualtierotti a pair of boots with nitroglycerin concealed in the hollowed-out heels. Last week police had their murderer-Gualtierotti's cousin Pier Luigi Tamburlani. Tamburlani confessed after a Rome bootmaker, interviewed by police about another case, recalled making a pair of hollow-heeled boots for Tamburlani in late 1936. Tamburlani told the bootmaker that the heels had to be hollow because the boots were intended for an official who needed a hiding place for secret documents...
Motive for the crime: revenge. Tamburlani blew up Gualtierotti because the heel-clicking captain had seduced Tam-burlani's fiancee, then cast her off. The girl killed herself...
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