PASOLINI MURDER CASE SHELVEDI'm not sure how many DU'ers have followed this story, but Doug Ireland has a fascinating piece up on the murder investigation of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a great gay cultural icon in Italy. -Mike Rogers, PageOneQ The investigation into the 1975 murder of the great gay Italian poet-film director- novelist-playwright-essayist-literary critic Pier Paolo Pasolini (below, left) -- which had been re-opened in May after the hustler originally convicted of the murder recanted on television his confession of three decades earlier -- has been definitively shelved, it was reported in Rome yesterday. This means that the many questions about the murder of Pasolini -- a political radical as well as a genius polymath -- will remain unanswered.
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