Unresolved: the gruesome discovery of a man in a furnace

The charred body of Gaetano Romano was discovered in the furnace of his father’s gypsum workshop, a day after his 20th birthday, in 2009. Ten years on, the perpetrator of the gruesome murder remains at large. Shortly before the body was discovered by his own father in Buġibba, the young man, who was found with six nails in his head, had written a letter expressing fears for his life and naming a suspect. The murder in Damascus Road was the first of the year for 2009.  The young Sicilian man worked at his father's shop Cinque Stelle Services, situated right next to the place where his corpse was found. Investigators initially believed a nail gun could have been used to shoot the tacks into the young man's head but such a weapon was not found. Given this, police sources had said investigators were not ruling out the possibility that the nails were hammered in his skull. Three suspects had been held a few days following the discovery of the body - they included a relative of his father, a man in his 30s, as well as a Maltese and a "Yugoslav" who were close friends of the victim but who were reported to have had a number of arguments with him. They were all released. The grim find...