so theres a backstory to this @aristotlencheese made a post abt will and nico headcanons and one of which was abt the 'di angelo case' (scroll to #9 in the post to see it) being a mildly famous true crime case so i asked them if i could like make a post abt like explaining the story of the case of bianca and nico and they said yes :) so here ya go ladies n gents n nb besties
Maria di Angelo was a young Catholic-Christian Italian woman who had immigrated from Venice to Washington, D.C. Her family and friends reported she was a bold and carefree woman who absolutely loved her children, her daughter Bianca and her son Nico, who were born out of wedlock. She claimed to have not known who their father was, but one day, on May 1st, 1938, she took her children out of their house. When a neighbor asked where she was going, Maria replied, “I’m taking them to meet their father.” She then took a taxi to a nearby hotel, where eyewitnesses said they saw her, in the lobby of the hotel, talking to a man in a black pinstripe suit while her two children played nearby. That was the last time Maria was ever seen alive because not two minutes later, the hotel they were in exploded.
Now here’s where it gets tricky. No one’s sure how the hotel exploded. Eyewitnesses to the explosion claimed a huge bolt of lightning had hit it, but news reports claimed it was a gas leak. On top of this, even though Nico and Bianca had been playing close to their mother, and Maria’s disfigured corpse was found at the scene along with dozens of others, the di Angelo siblings had seemingly disappeared. In the days that followed, there were several eyewitness reports that claimed there were two children matching the physical descriptions of Bianca and Nico being led around by a middle-aged man wearing a pinstripe suit similar to the one of the di Angelo father, and this man was also holding a briefcase.
Some eyewitnesses worked up the courage to ask the di Angelo lookalikes, but the children claimed that the man was a lawyer taking them to a hotel to meet up with their dad. When asked about their mother, the children said that they had never met her.
In the 84 years since this case has risen, no one has managed to crack it. Many investigators traced it to a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, called the ‘Lotus Hotel & Casino’, but any detectives who actually left to visit the hotel were never seen again. It is now considered a cold case.
Next time: The Jackson-Ugliano Kidnappings and Disappearances – the story of a 12-year-old boy who everyone had thought had killed his mother and destroyed his stepfather’s Camaro. Tune in to find out what really happened in the May of 2005.
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