David Angelini

For other uses of David, see David (disambiguation).

Angelini, David

Appeared in Glory in Death (c. May 3-June 3, 2058)

Personal Information

• Description: He stood slightly shorter than his father and was as dark as his sister was fair
• DOB: March 18, 2033
• Age: 25
• Address: Number 21 (brownstone); East Side neighborhood; New York, NY and Long Island estate
• Relationships: Marco Angelini (father); Cicely Towers (mother); Mirina Angelini (sister)
• Occupation: Businessman (Angelini Exports)

Description

• He spoke in a clipped, cultured voice and wore two rings, one diamond, one ruby, both set in heavy gold.

Personality

• Anna Whitney described him as being a great deal like his father. He liked to wheel and deal and did a great deal of traveling for the business, always looking for new arenas, new opportunities.
• His emotions showed themselves in stiff impatience with undercurrents of chained rage. He seemed insulted at the very idea that he would be expected to speak to a cop.
• He was a bad liar and sweat when he bluffed.
• Whitney said David was a fool, perhaps; was weak, perhaps; but he wasn't a cold-blooded killer. He said he was spoiled but there was no malice in him, no violence.
• Mira described him as a troubled young man with a highly developed sense of self-indulgence and protection. She believed he was more capable of running from trouble than confronting it. He was a liar who convinced himself of truth and cast blame elsewhere.

History

• Anna said Cicely was concerned with David and wondered if he’d settle down, and if he was happy.
• He had withdrawn three large payments from his accounts over the last six months, for a grand total of one million six hundred and thirty-two dollars, American. That was more than three-quarters of his personal savings, and he’d drawn it in anonymous credit tokens and cash.
• According to Roarke, David owed considerable sums to several people.
  • David made four deposits of fifty thousand dollars into his personal credit account over the last four months; the final one was keyed in two weeks before Cicely was murdered.
  • Between February and May of 2058, Anna Whitney transferred the funds to his New York bank and he flipped it over into his personal account in Milan. He then withdrew it, in cash, hard bills, at an AutoTell on Vegas II.
• He had been in secret negotiations with Yvonne Metcalf for a film deal; David was scrambling to come up with the money up front to save the deal. He wrote the script for the project.
  • He said he was at the Planet Hollywood complex in New Los Angeles when Metcalf was murdered.

Criminal Activities

• On disc, Eve saw David pull up outside Channel 75’s security gate about ten minutes before Louise Kirski’s body was discovered (May 31, 2058; 23:02:05 – 11:02 p.m.).
  • He initially lied, saying he arrived in the city at around 10:30 p.m., canceled a late meeting (with Carlson Young), and drove to his father’s home, straight from the airport.
  • When he was caught in the lie, he offered Dallas ten thousand dollars for her “time and discretion” if she held off for a week or two; he could double that if she dropped/buried it for good. Eve refused the bribe.
• He admitted to seeing Louise Kirski murdered and then realized he was driving away. He went to his father’s home, called Young to cancel the meeting, took a sedative and went to bed. He said he was shocked and afraid.
  • He said the killer was wearing a long black coat, and a hat that drooped down low, making it impossible to see him clearly in the dark.
    • Eve arrested him for leaving the scene of a crime, obstruction of justice, and attempting to bribe a police officer. Angry, he lunged at Eve, and closed his hands over her throat before she knocked him down. She said she wasn’t going to add assaulting an officer and resisting arrest as she didn't think she’d need it.
• He was being held in the tower at Riker’s [sic].

Interesting Facts

• Jack and Anna Whitney were his godparents.
• He never went more than a week without speaking to his mother and was in Paris on the night of her murder.
• He gambled and had gambling debts of around eight hundred thousand dollars. He used to gamble with Randall Slade but no longer as Slade gave it up for Mirina.
  • He often went to Vegas II for a quick weekend; he preferred blackjack.
• Feeney said David was “into some spine twisters for gambling debts. He’s been holding them off, giving them a little trickle here and there. Could be he’s dipped into the company till, but I can’t get a lock on that. He’s covered his ass.”
• He drank Stoli vodka.
• He had a private plane.
• When Eve searched Marco’s home, after David’s arrest, she found a knife in his desk. It was long, slim, and lethal with a fancy handle, carved out of what might have been genuine ivory, which would have made it an antique – or an international crime.
  • The knife didn’t match the murder weapon; the blade was a centimeter too thick and the blood matched David’s. It was a minimum of six months old.