Sicilian bandit king's skeleton is too short
A skeleton dug up from a cemetery in Sicily is shorter than the legendary bandit king who is supposed to have been buried there, lending weight to suspicions that he faked his own death.
The remains were exhumed in order to ascertain, once and for all, whether Salvatore Giuliano had a lookalike buried in his place and then escaped Italy for a new life in the United States. If still alive, he would be 88.
Surviving relatives of Italy's most famous bandit chieftain insist that he was at least 5ft 9in tall.
But the skeleton found in his grave in Montelpre, in western Sicily, belongs to someone who was between 5ft 2in and 5ft 5in tall, investigators said.
A local coroner has instructed police to check documents which may record Giuliano's exact height in order to confirm the apparent discrepancy.
The remains were exhumed last week, 60 years after the man dubbed The King of Montelpre was supposed to have been murdered by his cousin, one of his most trusted lieutenants....
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The remains were exhumed in order to ascertain, once and for all, whether Salvatore Giuliano had a lookalike buried in his place and then escaped Italy for a new life in the United States. If still alive, he would be 88.
Surviving relatives of Italy's most famous bandit chieftain insist that he was at least 5ft 9in tall.
But the skeleton found in his grave in Montelpre, in western Sicily, belongs to someone who was between 5ft 2in and 5ft 5in tall, investigators said.
A local coroner has instructed police to check documents which may record Giuliano's exact height in order to confirm the apparent discrepancy.
The remains were exhumed last week, 60 years after the man dubbed The King of Montelpre was supposed to have been murdered by his cousin, one of his most trusted lieutenants....