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sum of money to turn his property into a fortress, yet th.:-
murderer was able to enter and leave the property without
setting off any of the alarms, all within a few minutes.
How was this possible'?
'The most likely explanation requires some consider-
ation of the provision made to enable the inhabitants of the
villa themselves to come and go. Since Burolo refused to
employ security guards to man the gates or the control
room, thii had to be done automatically, by means of a
remote control or 'proximity' device similar to those used
for opening garage doors. But while most commercially
available models are of little value in security terms, since
their codes can easily be duplicated, the system at the
Villa Burolo was virtually unbreakable, because the code
changed every time it was used. Along with the existing
code, causing the gates to open, the remote cuntrol unit
transmitted a new randomly-generated cluster, replacing
the previous code, which would serve to operate the
mechanism at the next occasion. Since each signal was
uni.~ue, it was impossible for a would-be intruder to
duplicate it. But anyone who had been admitted to the
Vilia could easily remove the device and use it to re-enter
the perimeter without triggering the alarms.'
So far, so good, thought Zen. Technical jargon about
remoute control devices was no problem. Where the Favel-
loni angle got sticky was when it came to dealing not with
means and opportunity but with motive. It was widely
assumed that the reason Renato Favelloni had paid so
many visits to the Villa Burolo that summer was that he
was involved in negotiations between Oscar Burolo and
the politician referred to as 1'onorevole, whose influence
had allegedly been instrumental in getting Burolo Con-
struction its lucrative public-sector contracts. According to
the rumours circulating in the press and elsewhere, the
two men had recently fallen out, and Oscar had threat-
ened to make public the records he kept detailing their
mutually rewarding transactions over the years. Before he
could carry out this threat, however, he and his guests had
been gunned down, his documentary collection of video
tapes and fioppy discs ransacked, and I'onorevole spared
any possible future embarrassment.
This was the aspect of the case which was presumably
occupying the attention of the investigating magistrate,
but Aurelio Zen, unprotected by the might and majesty of
the judiciary, wanted to give the subject the widest
possible berth. Fortunately, he had a convenient excuse
for doing so. Although these theories had been widely
touted, because of the secrecy in which the prosecutiori
case was prepared they remained mere theories, lacking
any substantive backing whatsoever. Once Renato Favel-