Town that Disney built has 1st killing since start

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By TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press

Thursday, December 2, 2010

CELEBRATION, Fla. (AP) --

Celebration, Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence — until this week.

Residents of the town five miles south of Walt Disney World woke up Tuesday to the sight of yellow crime-scene tape wrapped around a condo near the Christmas-decorated downtown, where Bing Crosby croons from speakers hidden in the foliage. A 58-year-old neighbor who lived alone with his Chihuahua had been slain over the long Thanksgiving weekend, Osceola County sheriff's deputies said.

The community's famous friendliness is what brought investigators to Matteo Giovanditto's body: Neighbors hadn't seen him for days, so they filed a missing person's report, then went into his condo a day later and found him.

A few years ago, a resident joked with a reporter that Celebration would feel like a real town when a bike was stolen. Now, it has an unsolved killing on its hands.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/02/national/a024248S94.DTL

[Angry Dragon]

1. The first person I would look at is cheney

[Ian David]

2. I'm surprised his body wasn't removed by the subterranean trash collection robots. n/t