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away with his tactless impetuosity. He took a deep
breath, expelled it as a long sigh, and began to pound the
Olivetti's stubborn keys again.
'Given the killer's need of specialized knowledge to
overcome the villa's security defences, it was inevitable
that the only surviving member of Oscar Burolo's
imme tiate family, his son Enzo, should come under sus-
picion. Relations between Enzo and his father had repor-
tedly been strained for some time, largely owing to the
young man's refusal to agree to give up his attempt to
become a professional violinist in favour of a career in law
or medicine. That August, Enzo Burolo was attending a
music school in America, and inquiries by the FBI con-
firmed that he had been in the Boston area during the
period immediately preceding and following the mur-
ders. This line of investigation was therefore also
dropped. '
Zen flexed his fingers, making the joints creak like old
wood. He had now disposed of the suspects the judiciary
had
ad rejected. It only remained to discuss their eventual
choice, currently awaiting trial in Nuoro prison. And here
he had to tread very carefully indeed.
'The remaining possibility centred on Renato Favelloni,'
he wrote. 'Favelloni had visited the Burolo property on
many previous occasions, and had been staying there
during the period immediately prior to the murders. Early
that evening he and his wife were flown by Oscar Burolo
to Olbia airport to catch Alisarda flight IGxzg to Rome.
According to Nadia Favelloni, shortly before the flight was
cailed her husband told her that he had forgotten a very
!mportant document at the villa and had to return to g t it.
She was to go on to Rome while he would take a later
tlight. Nadia Favelloni duly left on IGxx3, but an examina-
tion of passenger lists revealed that Favelloni had made no
booking for a later flight. Under questioning, Favelloni
first claimed that he had flown to Milan instead. When it
was pointed out to him that his name did not appear ov.
the passenger list of the Milan fiight either, he stated that
the purpose of his trip had been to visit his mistress. This
was why he had told his wife the false story about leaving
a document at the Villa Burolo, and why he had booked
under a false name. His wife was jealous, and had once
hired a private detective to check on his movements. How-
ever, none of the staff or passengers on the Milan fiight
was able to identify Favelloni, and since his mistress's
testimony is suspect, there is no proof that he ever left
Sardinia on the night of the murders.
'The key to the Burolo case throughout has been the
question of access. Oscar Burolo had paid an enormou.'