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ith emerald-green waters, blue skies and and a rugged empty landscape, Zannone has everything you'd expect from a near-deserted Italian island.

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It also has a reputation for something rather more unexpected: Orgies.

"See that white colonial villa up high there?" says former fisherman Giorgio Aniello as he points a rough finger at a clifftop villa overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. "That's where the Marquis Casati Stampa held lavish sex parties."

Aniello is a regular visitor to Zannone, taking tourists on boat trips to the wildest atoll among the Pontine archipelago off the west coast of Italy.

The big attraction, aside from the island's natural beauty, is its dark, sexy past, most of which centers around the Marquis and his wife Anna Fallarino, a former actress.

"He was a lewd man, a voyeur who liked to watch and photograph his starlet wife get kinky having sex with with other younger guys," Aniello adds, enjoying spinning R-rated tales as he navigates a maze of reddish-yellow cliffs, old stone fisheries and sea stacks.

"Then one day he got fed up of the threesome, shot the two lovers and killed himself."

Skinny-dipping

During the 1960s, Zannone -- meaning "big fang" in Italian -- was a secret vacation retreat that the chic and sexually adventurous aristocratic couple had rented from the state.

"The nobleman went hunting while his beautiful wife killed time doing different activities," says Aniello.

These, he adds, included skinny dipping in ancient Roman pools and entertaining herself on the beach with other men.

The isle's isolation made it a perfect place to host masked parties that would culminate in debauched scenes reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut."

And its exotic setting matched the provocative nude photographs of Anna taken by her husband.

Graveyard of bottles

Dozens of yachts and motorboats would land during weekends as dukes, barons, countesses, VIPs and billionaires dropped by.

Guests and hosts drank heavily. During recent maintenance work, heaps of broken bottles and glass shards were found buried in the ground by local authorities.

According to rumors the villa also featured a "hidden mirror room" to spy on heavy sex sessions.

"The villa was a hot jet-society get-together," recalls former caretaker Salvatore Pagano, an old Zannone sea dog who once lived next door to the marquises. "It was crazy here."

Residents living on nearby Ponza island, from where today's guided tours depart, still recall the scandalous couple.

"We all knew what was happening there," says tourist guide Riccardo Peci. "It was dubbed the 'sex parties isle' but nobody ever uttered a word about it back then."

Open secret

"It's what we call a Pulcinella's secret," he adds, meaning everyone knew.

Then things ran out of control.

The erotic games ended in bloodshed in 1970 when Anna fell in love with one of her many handsome lovers.

In a fit of jealousy, her husband killed the pair, then shot himself in the head in their attic in Rome.

Italian tabloids rushed to publish parts of the marquis's secret "green velvet diary," in which he had apparently written in detail about his wife's love triangles.

The hottest finds, though, were the 1,500 indecent photos locked up in his office drawers.

There's nothing on Zannone today, not even a bar. Just a lighthouse and the whitewashed villa with colonnades and a patio overlooking the sea, now in need of extensive remodeling.

The villa was built in the 1930s and was passed from one noble family to another. Italian aristocracy had always used the island as a private hunting reserve, populating it with hundreds of mouflon wild sheep.

The sheep, Zannone's sole modern inhabitants, are now a protected species, at home on the steep, dark cliffs.

From prayer to sin

For visitors, the hike to the marquis's house, situated on Zannone's highest point, is tough.

The villa itself sits on the grounds of a ruined medieval monastery adorned with terracotta frescoed statues and housing a tiny chapel.

It's a curious mix of the sacred and blasphemous.

"The villa was an illegal construction," says Peci. "How can you allow to build on an archaeological site? Zannone went from being a place of meditation, silence and prayer to one of transgression and scandals."

When the aristocratic couple's nights of decadence ended in tragedy the mansion was shut and the isle was reclaimed by the state.

Private beach

Now the island is the playground of visitors, who can bathe in the same waters where Anna Fallarino once frolicked.

It's an attractive spot. From the tour boat, it's possible to dive in and swim below the villa to the private pebble beach that the marquis's wife once enjoyed.

Fallen tree trunks, palms and fluorescent green seaweed make it look like a Seychelles-style paradise.

Nearby are the crumbling remains of ancient fisheries once used to raise moray eels.

These days, teams of biologists, scientists and birdwatchers are the only ones allowed to -- occasionally -- spend the night, camping in tents.

When the sun sets, tourists return to their boats and Zannone goes back to being a forbidden island, cradling its many secrets.

Getting there

Zannone is reachable only by boat from sister-isle Ponza.

Former fishermen now take visitors on day boat trips (€27 per person) a few times a week. Lunch is served on board with snacks and drinks. Boats leave from Ponza's harbour at 11 a.m. and return at 5 p.m.

More info via Cooperativa Barcaioli Ponzesi (+39 0771 809929).

Ferries and high-speed boats to Ponza island depart each day during summer from mainland Italy's Terracina and Anzio harbors ( www.navlib.it; www.laziomar.it), both reachable by train from Rome's central Termini station.

Silvia Marchetti is a Rome-based freelance reporter. She writes about finance, economics, travel and culture for a wide range of media including MNI News, Newsweek and The Guardian.

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It also has a reputation for something rather more unexpected: Orgies. "See that white colonial villa up high there?" says former fisherman Giorgio Aniello as he points a rough finger at a clifftop villa overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. "That's where the Marquis Casati Stampa held lavish sex parties."

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Curtis Ayers, who pleaded guilty to killing KCK Detective Brad Lancaster, sentenced to life in prison

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The man who pleaded guilty to killing Kansas City, Kan., Police Department detective Brad Lancaster was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday.

Many say justice has been served in this case.

"In the end he has to answer to God," said Carolynn Lancaster, the detective's mother, following the sentencing. "That's the judge for him, in my opinion. Karma can be a bear. He's got to deal with it. He's got to be the one to sleep at night, knowing what he's done and how many lives he's affected. He's affected so many lives."

Judge Bill Klapper threw the book at Curtis Ayers, adding on more than 41 years to his life sentence for nine other felonies connected to Ayers' crime spree.

Klapper told Ayers there was no appropriate punishment for his crimes. The judge told him: "Many think you should have received the death penalty."

Curtis Ayers pleaded guilty in January to shooting and killing the detective outside a KCK casino last May.

Ayers shot and killed Detective Brad Lancaster outside the Hollywood Casino last May.

Lancaster's family agreed with a decision not to seek the death penalty in exchange for Ayers' guilty pleas.

Still, the detective's mother said afterwards that she hopes Ayers will suffer behind bars.

"I hope he has to stop and think about everything that he's done," Carolynn Lancaster said. "What a good person he's hurt. He's put such a whole void in our lives. We are struggling hard to get through this. I'm just doing the best we can."

Prosecutors say Ayers shot Brad Lancaster seven times before getting away in his police car. He carjacked two other drivers before police tracked him down in Kansas City, Mo., and shot him.

Ayers already was a convicted criminal, out on parole at the time of Lancaster's shooting.

The Wyandotte County District Attorney says he wants the community to know that if you take a life, he will seek to take you off the streets for as long as possible. And that's pretty much the sentence he got for Ayers.

The 39-year-old detective was with KCK for 10 years, before that he was with the Platte County sheriff's office for 10 years.

He grew up in Weston, Mo., and graduated from West Platte High School. He later served in the U.S. Air Force.

Hear from Lancaster's mother below:

Following Ayers' sentencing, the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office and Kansas City, Kan., Police Department held a joint news conference to explain the sentencing. You can watch the full news conference below.

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Curtis Ayers, who pleaded guilty to killing KCK Detective Brad Lancaster, sentenced to life in prison

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The man who pleaded guilty to killing Kansas City, Kan., Police Department detective Brad Lancaster was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday. Many say justice has been served in this case. "In the end he has to answer to God," said Carolynn Lancaster, the detective's mother, following the sentencing.

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Toni Anderson’s father takes comfort that KCPD has not found evidence of foul play. The father of missing woman Toni Anderson said he believes the body found inside the car pulled from the Missouri River Friday is his daughter.While investigative officials have yet to positively identify the body, evidence is sufficient enough for Brian Anderson to believe that it is Toni.

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White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday brushed off a demand by Sen. John McCain to either provide evidence of President Trump's wiretapping claims or retract the allegation, saying the White House will wait until congressional committees release their own findings.

"We will comment further after those findings are made clear," Conway told "Fox & Friends."

She was responding to McCain, R-Ariz., who on Sunday said Trump has "one of two choices" to make regarding his explosive allegation two weekends ago that former President Barack Obama tapped his phones.

"Either retract or ... provide the information that the American people deserve, because, if his predecessor violated the law, President Obama violated the law, we have got a serious issue here, to say the least," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Top lawmakers also expressed doubt Sunday that the Justice Department would meet a bipartisan request to provide evidence by Monday.

"I don't expect to see any evidence," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, told ABC's "This Week."

Schiff and committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., made the request in a letter Saturday.

In a tweet Monday morning, Conway said they are "pleased" the House and Senate intelligence committees are investigating, "& will comment after."

She echoed that assessment on "Fox & Friends," noting the congressional investigation is ongoing.

After Trump's tweets touched off a firestorm, the White House has sought to move beyond the controversy for now by putting the investigation in Congress' hands, focusing instead on the push to advance Republicans' ObamaCare repeal bill and other initiatives.

Conway, though, said Monday that leaks about the administration are "coming from somewhere." As to Trump's specific - and most controversial - claim that Obama had "wires" tapped in Trump Tower, Conway said: "We'll see where these investigations lead."

The committees have not given a timetable for when their work might conclude.

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Mr Erdoğan reacted furiously to Holland's decision prevent his foreign minister from entering the country in order to hold a pro-government rally with Turkish citizens living in Rotterdam.

"They are very nervous and cowardly. They are Nazi remnants, they are fascists," the Turkish leader told a crowd of his supporters in Istanbul.

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When 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, police officers shared a video showing Brown with his hands around a shopkeeper's neck as he makes off with a carton of cigarillos.

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Police called the incident a strong-arm robbery and argued that Brown had brought the same level of violence to his confrontation with officer Darren Wilson moments later.

But previously unreleased surveillance video casts doubt on whether Brown robbed the store shortly before he was fatally shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

Jason Pollock, the filmmaker who discovered the video, says the footage shows Brown exchanging drugs for a bag of cigarillos around 1 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2014, about 11 hours before he was killed.

The video doesn't clearly show what was exchanged but shows Brown leaving behind the cigarillos.

The new footage is a part of Pollock's new documentary "Strange Fruit," which debuted Saturday at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The documentary suggests that Brown's argument the next morning was over getting his things back.

"We are doing this for Mike. We are not just doing this to uncover Ferguson. We are doing this to defend Mike's honor, to defend his name and to defend the family's name," Pollock said in an interview with ABC News' " Good Morning America " on Monday.

Pollock says the video is proof that Brown did not rob the store.

"They wanted us to think Michael robbed the store because they needed us to think that Michael was aggressive. Michael was handed the bag in the video, the clerk puts it in a plastic bag and hands it over the counter to Michael Brown," Pollock said. "That's not stealing [from] the store."

Brown's uncle, Bernard Brown, said the police lied about his nephew.

"The picture they painted of my nephew was not right. That video dispels one of the lies they were telling," Bernard Brown told "Good Morning America" on Monday.

The convenience store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, strongly denies the documentary's claims.

Jay Kanzler, an attorney for Ferguson Market and Liquor, said Pollock never reached out to him or his clients in regards to what's seen in the video.

He said Pollock's conclusions are entirely false and that the video doesn't change what happened.

"Right now to turn around and somehow blame folks that have nothing to do with this. To turn around and blame them and drag them back into it for what Michael Brown did is shameful."

Kanzler categorically denies there was some sort of arrangement between Brown and the employees.

"It just didn't happen," he said, adding that things can be made to look a lot different when you edit a video. "This wasn't Macy's or Walmart where you put your cigarillos on layaway for some bad pot."

St. Louis County police spokesman Sgt. Shawn McGuire said the department cannot confirm the authenticity of the video at this time and that the department's investigation is focused on the interaction between Brown and Wilson.

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Mr. Kohl- Missing UMKC student Toni Anderson's car and body was pulled from the Missouri River Saturday. The last ping of her cell phone was from a tower in Parkville, Mo.

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Toni Anderson’s mother believes it was her body found in the car pulled from the river

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Police have yet to release an official identification