ITALIAN man Pasquale Antonino Iacopino committed suicide July 21 and was buried by his grieving family on the island of Sicily — on August 13, Iacopino was caught robbing tourists, was tried and then vanished. Confused? Well, so are the Italian police. The saga began in April when Iacopino’s mother reported that her 48-year-old son had gone missing. Weeks passed and nothing was heard of from him until last month when a man jumped into the path of a train and died. There were no identification papers on the body, but Signora Iacopino heard of the incident and feared it might be her son.A trip to the morgue confirmed her fears. Both she and her husband identified the body and brought their son home to the Sicilian city of Messina for burial. A few days later police caught a man on the nearby island of Vulcano as he was stealing from bathers’ rucksacks on the beach.

　　The offender was carrying identification papers which showed clearly that he was Pasquale Antonino Iacopino from Messina. He went before the magistrates who found him guilty but did not jail him. By the time police realised they had arrested a “dead man,” Iacopino had vanished into the air. (SD-Agencies)