Francis Kaufmannthe accused man of the double murder of Villa Pamphili, arrives in Rome, extradited by Greece where he was arrested on 13 June. He will arrive at Ciampino airport on an Air Force aircraft and then the accusations will be formalized: double murder and concealment of corpse. Within 5 days, which will pass in the Rebibbia prison, the guarantee interrogation.
The crime
The bodies of Anastasia Trofimova and the daughter Andromeda, 11 months, were found on Saturday 7 June at Villa Pamphili, a Roman park, not far from each other. First the girl’s corpse was found, two hours later that of the mother was identified. A few days for identification took place, but then the connection with Kaufmann was immediate who had been noticed by some witnesses for the violent attitudes towards the partner. For man The accusation is to have suffocated an eight -month -old girl, probably her daughter, and to have hidden a woman’s bodymother of the little girl, who claimed to be his wife.
Francis Kaufmann aka Rexal Ford
Francis Kaufmann traveled the world with a name that did not belong to him (that of Rexal Ford), intertwining contacts with people unaware of his past and pretending to be a professional filmmaker. Behind his fictitious identity there is a 46 -year -old American citizen, with various incriminations behind violence: the Corriere della Sera he writes that He was arrested five times for domestic violence and attacks and served 120 days in prison “By aggression with lethal weapon that caused serious physical injuries (probably a stabbing)”.
Ian Franses, British producer of the Peacock Film Finance, says he met the man in March 2021. «No, I didn’t know Rexal Ford wasn’t his real name». “He asked me to help him raise funds for his film entitled Food Fight». A project, Franses wrote in its recommendation, with a three million euro budget.
On June 5, two days before the probable double murder, a witness sees him in Largo Benedetto Cairoli. The description is chilling: “Drunk, staggering, with a bottle of wine in one hand and the girl in tears on the other arm». At one point, the deposite on the seat of a parked scooter. The small pink flower dress is found in a waste trash, not far from the place where the body will be discovered.
Kaufmann had pretended to be chef, as well as director and producer. At the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome he wanted to make an audition as a lyrical singer. Arrested last June 13 in Skiatos, Greece made use of the right not to answer. To ascertain the paternity of the killed girl, his DNA will be taken. .
Anastasia
“Our daughter had graduated and had an excellent job in Moscow,” Anastasia’s parents told the special Who saw it? on the crime of Villa Pamphili. “Then on vacation in Malta he fell in love with Rexal: and we hadn’t understood that it was a monster.” The investigators listened to them at Fiumicino airport, after their arrival in Rome on July 4th. Kaufmann would arrive in Malta a year and a half before her and would have met in September 2023.
The woman, born in Omsk, Siberia, may have been suffocated. The results of histological examinations on Anastasia’s body are expected. The mother heard her last time on video call on May 27th. In an email of June 2, he told the mother that he was trying to solve the problems with his partner.
Source: Vanity Fair
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