He also felt the need to better understand this occurrence; as such, he consulted the local newspapers’ archives he could find with that story. He also came across some photographs of Diletta that were sparing in their mercy; she could barely be recognised in the shots that immortalised her back then. He found numerous descriptions, some of which probably invented by the editors, as to the child’s condition and the teenage mother at the time.
They wrote that the aged former Carabinieri marshal ─ in retirement when he became his grandson’s victim ─ had always been a very precise man and that the tragedy had only occurred the once as he’d not locked the revolver in the safe for reasons that couldn’t be explained.
Carabinieri He thought back to the first time he saw David, who ─ it seemed
