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Paul Frampton is a particle physicist, Denise Milani a glamor model. They met online, fell in love, made plans to meet. But first, I had to ask a favor: do not collect the bag Bolivia

In November 2011, Paul Frampton, a theoretical particle physicist, met Denise Milani, a model Bikini Czech mate1.com online dating site. She was beautiful - dark hair and dark eyes, with a supposedly natural breast size DDD. In some pictures, looked ironically steam, others offered a warm smile

Soon they were chatting online almost every day. He came home from school - he was professor of physics and astronomy at the University of North Carolina for 30 years - and his team ring. "Are you there, dear?" They chat in Yahoo Messenger for a while, then went into another room to take care of something. A half hour later, there was the familiar buzz. Was always Milani "What are you doing now?"

Frampton had been alone since her divorce three years ago, now seemed those days were over. Milani said he was ready to change his life. She was tired of being a glamor model posing in bikini on the beach, while leering men. She wanted to settle down and have children. But worried about what he thought of her: "You think you could be proud of someone like me" Of course, it could, he said.

Frampton tried to talk on the phone, but she always demurred. When she finally agreed to meet him in person, she asked him to come to La Paz, Bolivia, where he was on a photo shoot. On 7 January 2012, he left for Bolivia through Toronto and Santiago. At 68, I dreamed of finding a wife to give children - and any woman. He imagined Milani introduce his colleagues. One thing bothered him, though. She told him that men hitting on her all the time. How did it affect you? Are they going? But then he remembered that it was comforting to talk with her as a partner in the next room. And he knew she loved him. He said repeatedly.

Frampton had no intention of a long journey - I had to be back to teach - so leave your car at the airport. Soon, he hoped, would return with Milani on the arm. The first thing that was wrong was that he had sent e-ticket for the match at Toronto-Santiago of your trip turned out to be invalid, leaving him stranded in Toronto for a full day. Frampton finally arrived in La Paz, four days after he had left. I hoped Milani meet the next morning, but he was called for another photo session in Brussels. She promised to send a ticket to get there, so Frampton, who had checked into the hotel Eva Palace, worked on a newspaper until he arrives. Airline tickets to Buenos Aires ended with the promise that the ticket was on his way to Brussels. All Frampton Milani asked is that a favor: take a bag that was left La Paz

In Bolivia, Frampton corresponded with an old friend, John Dixon, a physicist and lawyer. When Frampton explained what he was doing, Dixon became alarmed. His warnings were unequivocal: "I said, 'In this case, sewn into the lining, cocaine're be in big trouble.". Paul said: "I'll be careful'll make sure there is no cocaine in there, and if I'm not going to ask you to leave I thought I'd probably kidnap and torture to get your money, I did not know he had the money .... He said, "Well, you're going to die, so who do I contact if you disappear And he said:" My brother and my ex-wife. "Frampton I was told later downplayed warnings as melodramatic Dixon, adding that rarely pay attention to the opinions of others.

the afternoon of January 20, a man described as Hispanic Frampton, but it was not a good look, handed over a bag in the dark street outside his hotel. Frampton expected a Hermes or Louis Vuitton, but the bag was a black cloth bag with ordinary wheels. Back in his room, opened. It was empty. Milani wrote, wondering why this case was so important. She told him he had "sentimental value." The next morning, filled with dirty clothes and headed for the airport.

Frampton flew to Buenos Aires, crossing the border without incident. He said he spent the next 40 hours at the airport of Ezeiza essentially "doing physics" and check your e-mail in the hope that electronic ticket to Brussels happen. But the moment that s' is made, Frampton had asked a friend to send you a ticket Raleigh had been absent for 15 days and was ready to go home. There was always the possibility that future Milani in North Carolina and you want her bag, so we checked in two bags for him and her, and walked towards the door. Soon he heard his name called over the loudspeaker. He thought it must be for an upgrade, but when he arrived counter of the airline, was greeted by several policemen. Questions to identify your luggage - "This is my purse, the other is not mine, but I checked" - pending tested the contents of a package found in the trunk of Milani. A few hours later, he was arrested.

Frampton met last fall, in the office of the prison Devoto, one of the few in the old prison in Buenos Aires, and leakage ruinous for his club open windows and rain through the roof. It was September, the beginning of spring in the southern hemisphere, but there was a chill in the air and the heating system is down, as usual.

"Hey, professor, won the Nobel Prize yet?" a guard shouted as he walked by Frampton. She wore a red tracksuit Adidas, slippers and a tattered Barbour jacket to keep warm. "It is the protection of the royal family brings - is for hunting," said Frampton on. "Look, this is the pocket in the back where you can put a dead bird." He had been Devoto eight months awaiting trial on charges of carrying 2 kg of cocaine into the country. It was located in a house group of 80 men accused of drug trafficking or smuggling, most of them from other Latin American countries. Frampton had almost no experience with drugs, with the exception of occasional consumption and nicotine. Now he lived with people who were not only well versed in the intricacies of the drug trade, but regular users of marijuana and cocaine. The pavilion was often illuminated at night by small spoons in flames as held solitary cooked paco, a paste similar to cocaine is often done with kerosene and sulfuric acid. But there were good things about not being in a single cell. Several prisoners had their own TVs. On Sunday morning, Frampton became the classical music station for a few hours before others got up and turned back to the videos. Whenever his case was reported in the local news, photos of Milani flash on the screen, prompting boos and applause from other prisoners. "I'm a bit of a celebrity here," says Frampton.

from the time of his arrest, had argued that it was the victim of a scam, and he projected a sense that everything that happened was a mistake that will be resolved soon. Perfectly pleasant, followed punctuating my questions about your current situation: "And after that, we will go to the physical, right?"

Finally, his eyes burning with schoolboy enthusiasm, sometimes interrupted by a spasmodic cough - have a lung disease, the smoky air prison makes things worse - he spoke through of what he calls his "14 groundbreaking discoveries," he wrote on a piece of notepaper. has closed half serious talk, half mischievous, calculating with others: "I am the co- author with three Nobel laureates only 11 theoretical physicists have six of the 11 have won Nobel Prizes are always ... In this sense, I have a 55% chance to win the Nobel Prize. "

How

Frampton, who holds a professorship at the University of North Carolina and was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy, has completed Devoto seems at first sight a classic tale: a brilliant man the science is in trouble when it comes to navigate the real world. Since his arrest, he has certainly grown this concept, tweak your profile mad scientist, with phrases like: "This is my na?vet?" and "My mind works in a strange way."

Those who know him describe him as a sort of idiot savant who could easily be deceived by those who posed as Milani. "The woman came later in Paul's life," says Richard Czerniawski, who was a student at the University of Oxford and Frampton lives in Buenos Aires. Frampton was first married at age 50, with Anne-Marie, then 52, a French woman who calls herself a groupie physical: "I could not keep track of what Paul said, because the math, but could not understand the words or could not hear the music, music of physics. "The couple divorced in 2008, but they are on good terms. Anne-Marie described her ex-husband as a scientist very good with the emotional age of a child of three years. "I was flabbergasted. Flabbergasted but not surprised," he said, referring to the call he made to his devotee. "Paul is a very experienced traveler, but this line," Do not take the baggage that is not yours, "not even hear it. It is another world, another universe."

A story about the search for a new wife certainly reinforced this view. Shortly after her divorce, Frampton, then 64, was anxious to find a woman between the ages of 18 and 35 years, who understand that when women are most fertile. A promising candidate was a Chinese. After a long email correspondence, Frampton ready to see during a trip to China to visit another eminent scientist, but he met for an hour and "was not going anywhere." The next major competitor seems to have been Milani. "He told me to look on the internet," said Dixon. "I thought it was out of his mind, and told him." We are not talking about the real girl. Why would a young man like that be interested in an old man like you? "But he really thought he was a very young woman who wanted to marry her. "When Frampton later asked what made him think Milani was interested, I said," Well, I was accused of having an enormous ego. "

Over three and a half months, Frampton has called me 42 times in prison. Call to report the news. A piece "light" opinion he wrote in a newspaper of Raleigh "illegal" the rector of the University of action to cut their wages without due process was drawn the provost. (The provost was granted 60 days of paid leave, then suspended his salary until he can resume his duties. Frampton university continued unsuccessfully for his salary.) She welcomes in particular the removal of the president, because the distribution of wages has had a real impact. Apparently, no savings, could not afford a lawyer and had to resort to an overload Argentine defender public. He had given up their health insurance, and ran the risk of losing your car and home to the United States. In Argentina, rushed to get the money he needed to buy decent food in prisons and phone cards, which could be up to 30 in your pocket.

proved that the provost voluntarily retired in June 2013 and continued as a faculty member. Frampton seemed embarrassed to have linked the fate of the Provost to yours. He was excited by something else. The president of Harvard, he had heard, had received a note on your case with the hope that it referred to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Kirchner during a visit to the university. "I have never been examined by two people so important," said Frampton. (Never president of Harvard, received a note Frampton, and she had never Kirchner and discuss your case.) Or report had ever hoped it would be under house arrest at any time. (His court-appointed lawyer, Ignacio Anitua, asked that his client be placed under house arrest because of his age and lung disease, but the application was still course through official channels.) he asked me to bring him cheese, blue cheese, curry powder, chili, laptops, reading glasses and phone cards, and expressed frustration at the slow pace of the case . I was particularly exasperated as text messages on your phone confiscated January 20 had not yet been delivered to the lawyer by the police. "It is clear from the message that was not my bag. It should be sufficient to exonerate me. " (His lawyer said that the text messages are actually in the file, but it would never be enough to prove his innocence.)

Monday, Frampton has called three times in the first 15 hours. He perked up and spoke about the "explosive situation" at the university, he still had to restore his salary despite letters of support from, among others, Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow and John C. Lee Taylor, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. "Research institutions across the country are at risk if a teacher is 30 years his salary suddenly revoked without notice," he said. "This means that the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers are in danger."

second call

18:00: Frampton said it was one month in prison stay ahead of his fellow prisoners were able to convince him that she thought he had been in contact with all the time was probably a man pretending to be her. The real Denise Milani has never been accused of having a role in drug trafficking and has no connection with Frampton. "The only real connection we have through the international media," admitted Frampton. Milani has expressed its concern to have their name associated with drug traffickers, fearing for her and her 12 year old son, and "sympathy" for the teacher. "I'm sorry for her, too," says Frampton.

Third call

, 20:00: ".. could have sanctions that could be killed" He talked about how he had heard of brokers and now living with the discourse on what happens with mules lose the cache. He said that people had told him that someone must have been looking at the airport, so we knew what he looked like. "These thoughts keep me in the night."

Frampton is likely to be regarded as the center of the action, regardless of the medium. Having grown up in Worcestershire, England, in what he described as a "lower middle class family," his mother encouraged him to report their neighbors stellar qualities, a practice that may have led to confusion Frampton laurels young love mundane. At 18, he enrolled at Brasenose College, Oxford, obtaining a PhD in 1968. He has received several offers for postdocs, including Princeton University and the University of Chicago. His advisors suggested that he go to Chicago to work with the physicist Yoichiro Nambu. Nambu, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008, was a giant in the field, but counselors Frampton may have other reasons to lead the way Nambu - Frampton said he had "no ego surprise"

Schaposnik, professor of physics at the National University of La Plata - which, with the University of Buenos Aires, offered a visiting professorship to help him Frampton released pending Devoto trial - said: "It is a typical person trained in Oxford who is part of an elite and I can not imagine such a thing would happen to him.". In fact, Frampton sees people as creative marginal academics who deserve special protection. "People who are socially inept, but they can be more creative. It is very important that you can not be fired. This is the genius of the occupation."

There was a similar case in the past year, the New Zealander Sharon Armstrong, a former officer of the Commission of the Maori language. As Frampton, says she met her lover in a dating site, and after months of online contact, made a plan to meet him abroad in Buenos Aires en route to London to collect certain contracts of paper for him. She was caught with five kilos of cocaine. After the two mentioned in a series of articles, please contact Armstrong Frampton. The judges in the case - was sentenced to four years and 10 months - also as judges in
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