 On 12 July 2008 , Behan was questioned by the Carabinieri ( Italian military police ) in connection with the murder of a 72 @-@ year @-@ old woman , Silvana Abate Francescatti , at her home on Monte Amiata , Arcidosso , in Grosseto , Tuscany , Italy . The woman was found on 11 July with 13 stab wounds , including a fatal throat wound , but was believed to have died the previous day . Behan , who had been resident in Arcidosso for part of the year since 2006 , was arrested after seeking treatment twice at a hospital near Arcidosso for a cut on his thigh . In an interview with The Irish Times , he claimed he had first gone to the hospital on 10 July after cutting himself in the thigh while unpacking furniture and other objects delivered from the USA . However , hospital staff had mistakenly decided he had been acting suspiciously due to his poor spoken Italian , and the fact that he had expressed annoyance at how the hospital was managed and its bad signage . 
