Andrea Zamperoni, the 33-year-old
Italian head chef of Cipriani Dolci, a noted restaurant in New
York's Grand Central Station, turned up dead in a hostel last
night after going missing last Saturday.
Zamperoni's body was found on the first floor of the Kamway
Lodge Hostel in Queens, a location noted for drugs and
prostitution, police said.
Several tourists who were staying in the hostel said they had
heard the noise of an apparent fight on the first floor.
The chief prosecutor of Lodi near Milan, the chef's home
town, Domenico Chiaro, said he would open an exploratory probe
into Zamperoni's death.
"This is a due act," said the prosecutor.
"We are waiting to see what is the exact motive of the
death".
An autopsy has been ordered.
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