Celebration (TheTown that Disney built) has 1st killing since start

[Liberal_in_LA]

Town that Disney built has 1st killing since start
By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press

Associated Press December 2, 2010 08:54
(12-02) 08:54 PST CELEBRATION, Fla. (AP) --

Celebration, Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence — until this week.

Residents of the town five miles south of Walt Disney World woke up Tuesday to the sight of yellow crime-scene tape wrapped around a condo near the Christmas-decorated downtown, where Bing Crosby croons from speakers hidden in the foliage. A 58-year-old neighbor who lived alone with his Chihuahua had been slain over the long Thanksgiving weekend, Osceola County sheriff's deputies said.

The community's famous friendliness is what brought investigators to Matteo Giovanditto's body: Neighbors hadn't seen him for days, so they filed a missing person's report, then went into his condo a day later and found him.

A few years ago, a resident joked with a reporter that Celebration would feel like a real town when a bike was stolen. Now, it has an unsolved killing on its hands.


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[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. That place is just creepy

Before my girlfriends parents retired from Disney and returned to California they lived there for a while, the place is strange just by virtue of being out of place in central Florida - but it is the residents that make it creepy. Their the kind of people who take out a second mortgage to fill their house with Thomas Kinkade shit.

[lunatica]

2. That's sad. It would be nice to have a safe place somewhere

[valerief]

3. This is America. No one of the rank and file are safe. nt

[Deep13]

4. I misread the subject line because I didn't realize the town is called "Celebration."

I thought someone was throwing a party to celebrate murder. Oops.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. good point. Let me fix the title

[Lost-in-FL]

6. I live very near Celebration and have not heard anything about this before!

And yes... People there are creepy.