A mystery about which the family is calling for clarity and which has triggered a complicated investigation by the judiciary. The story is that of a 54-year-old carpenter, Alfio Torrisi, originally from Giarre (in the province of Catania), who died last October at Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport, Bahamas, where he had been admitted following an illness he had on the Carnival Cruises Line ship "Paradise", where he worked on behalf of the Techni Teak company. After a family complaint, the man's body had returned to Sicily, where a new autopsy was performed. Meanwhile, in the Catania Public Prosecutor's Office file, two suspects had been listed for manslaughter (as a necessary act in order to perform the autopsy): the owner of the company Torrisi worked for and the captain of the ship on which the death occurred. But when the medical examiner performed the new assessment, he discovered something further dramatic. The man's corpse was totally devoid of internal organs. In their place was only sawdust mixed with newspaper sheets. The result of the autopsy was then handed over to the prosecutor's office, which at that point initiated an international investigation to ascertain what happened, probably during or after the first autopsy, for which it will now be crucial to retrieve the results of the findings made at the Bahamas hospital.
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