“My name is Rexal Ford,” the man born under the name Charles Francis Kaufmann told an Italian courtroom, in English, at the start of his double-murder trial in February. “I am not a killer. I am a film producer.”
The former Kaufmann, a 47-year-old American, did legally change his name to Rexal Ford in 2019. In Malta, in 2022, however, he was known as Daniel R. Foster, with a British passport and Maltese residency papers to match. Three years later, hiring a boat from Malta to Sicily, he had an Italian identity document identifying him as Matteo Capozzi — a name that also appeared with his photo on a now-deleted IMDb page claiming production credits on major film projects.
