Andrea Purgatori, horrific illness and death in hospital. He disappeared and turned off all the phones.

 Many are now wondering about the causes of the journalist's death. And the whole world of information joins in the condolences of the family.

Andrea Purgatory died at the age of 70 in a hospital in Rome from a short-term illness. Journalist, screenwriter, film and fiction writer, author, and script educator, Purgatory has always maintained a free and open outlook, and his entire career has been transcended by a relentless search for the truth of the facts.

The news of the disappearance was brought by his children Eduardo, Ludovico, and Victoria and the family represented by the Kao law firm. Many are now wondering about the causes of the journalist's death. And the whole world of information joins in the condolences of the family.

Paolo Graldi, columnist and former director of Il Messaggero magazine, recalls his friend this way: "He was a truth-seeker." Purgatori was a fine smoker, who "loved polemical jabs" and "created sympathy with those who listened to him, imposing interest on the subjects he expounded and his style said, 'Beware, we're not playing around here'."

Analytical, attentive, brilliant, "he could read a page of a report and was able to repeat it later without reading it again." But questions about Purgatori's disappearance still haunt each other.

Graldi remembers the last time they saw each other, on May 10, at a radiological study. "He didn't tell anyone he was sick, but he disappeared, turned off all phones, closed all relationships, and took care of himself," the journalist said.

For years he worked to push up the rubber wall around the Ustica massacre, trying to cut through the darkness in the story of the DC-9 Itavia that disintegrated and sank on June 27, 1980, collecting hundreds of testimonies and investigating attempts to mislead the suspects.

Able to involve American intelligence, France, and Libya. Palm in reconstructing, asking questions, listening, and putting together the puzzle pieces of Italian history, as Purgatori lent them to mafia crimes and national and international terrorism, to key moments in the life of the Republic: celebrated for his investigations into the Moro case, in the Years of Lead, about the 1982 massacres and the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, which recently saw him take part in the documentary The Vatican Girl, which aired on Netflix.