An American con artist was sentenced to life in prison in Rome for the brutal double murder of his partner and infant daughter.
“My name is Rexal Ford,” the man born under the name Charles Francis Kaufmann told an Italian courtroom, in English, at the start of his double-murder trial in February. “I am not a killer. I am a film producer.”
The former Kaufmann, a 47-year-old American, did legally change his name to Rexal Ford in 2019. In Malta, in 2022, however, he was known as Daniel R. Foster, with a British passport and Maltese residency papers to match. Three years later, hiring a boat from Malta to Sicily, he had an Italian identity document identifying him as Matteo Capozzi — a name that also appeared with his photo on a now-deleted IMDb page claiming production credits on major film projects.