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On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian prime minister and Christian Democrat party leader, was kidnapped in Rome by BR.

His five-man body guard was murdered soon after.

While they were holding him, forty-five days after the kidnapping, the Red Brigades called his family on the phone, taunting Moro's wife about her husband's impending death.

Nine days later his body, shot in the head, was found dumped in a city lane.

The conversation was recorded, and later broadcast and televised.

A number of people who knew Negri and remembered his voice identified him as the probable author of the call, and some months later an American voice specialist made the same assessment.