There was always a heavy hint of charade in the company of "Arthur Knight".
It was hard to square the man presenting as a bumbling aristocrat in Glasgow's west end with one of America's most wanted. And yet, there were always clues.
Like his knowledge of Kay Burley. On the day I first arranged to interview him, he told me that TV was a mystery to him and that he never watched it.
Then he said he hoped he wouldn't be nailed to the wall by Kay - our then Sky News colleague and presenter.
How did he know Kay if he knew nothing about television, I wondered.
He also asked how we would "chyron" him, an American term for an on-screen title that I was unfamiliar with (and I'm in the business).
Image: Rossi and his wife
There was also the matter of the plasma TV screen on his front room wa