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The woman who made sense of London’s most mysterious murder
I read the headlines in the summer of 1982 about the mystery surrounding the death of Roberto Calvi, found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in central London. And, like everyone else, I was intrigued by speculation about the involvement of a shady Italian Masonic lodge, the Mafia, or even the Catholic Church – since Calvi’s failed Banco Ambrosiano had close links with the Vatican Bank, earning him the nickname ‘God’s banker’. Little did I imagine back then, as a young forensic scientist, that I would one day play a significant role in establishing whether this Italian bank chairman’s gruesome death was suicide or murder.
