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Lorenza Isceri who was thrown from a motorway viaduct by her ex-partner

Woman thrown from motorway viaduct near Florence

September 5, 2026September 5, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Federico Vella allegedly ambushed and abducted his ex-partner Lorenza Isceri before he threw her from the A1 motorway viaduct. Italy records its eighth femicide since Ferragosto.

Elderly man kills hospitalised ex-wife on her birthday

July 5, 2026July 5, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

An 86-year-old man killed his ex-wife with a knife inside a hospital on the Tuscan coast on Friday, before taking his own life by jumping from a third-floor window of the same building.

man arrested for killing two women in abandoned building

Man confesses to killing two women on consecutive days

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Mario Landolfi, a 48-year-old unemployed cocaine user from the Naples area, was arrested on Monday after admitting to killing two women by throwing them to their deaths in an abandoned construction site in Pollena Trocchia.

Biscegli where the latest femicide took place. Por Geppi Simone - Trabajo propio, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37574910

Woman thrown from balcony in Italy’s latest femicide

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Patrizia Lamanuzzi, 54, died in Bisceglie near Bari on Wednesday after allegedly being thrown from a balcony by her husband, who then took his own life. She is the latest femicide victim in a grim pattern of gender-based violence that continues to claim lives across Italy.

Parents of Carlomagno were found hanged in their garden - a suspected double suicide.

Parents of femicide suspect Carlomagno found dead near Rome

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

The parents of a man, Claudio Carlomagno, who confessed to killing his wife in a femicide earlier this month were found dead at their home north of Rome on Saturday evening.

Aurora Livoli was identified as the woman found dead in a Milan condo courtyard

Woman found dead in Milan condo identified

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

MILAN / ROME — Italian authorities have identified the young woman found dead early Monday in a Milan condo courtyard as Aurora Livoli, a 19-year-old originally from Rome and raised in Monte San Biagio in the province of Latina south of the capital.

Scene of stabbing of woman by ex-partner in Verona. Image credit: Carabinieri Verona

Man arrested after fatal stabbing of ex-partner

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A 41-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his former partner to death in Castelnuovo del Garda, near Verona.

Pamela Genini who was murdered by her ex-partner.

Model and Businesswoman Pamela Genini killed in Milan

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Milan, October 15, 2025 — A 29-year-old model and entrepreneur, Pamela Genini, was brutally murdered on Tuesday night in an apartment in the Gorla district of Milan. Her former partner, 52-year-old Gianluca Soncin, is under police guard in hospital after allegedly stabbing her 24 times and then attempting to take his own life.

Italy grapples with more femicide cases Image credit: © jiris/Shutterstock

Arrests of two men over femicide cases

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Two new femicide cases concerning Italy, one involving an Italian woman killed on the Spanish island of Formentera and another in Sicily.

Femicide in Foggia By Orledio - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109618902

Another suspected femicide – Foggia

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A 46-year-old woman of Moroccan origin was stabbed to death in Foggia overnight in what investigators believe is the latest femicide in a disturbing trend across Italy, sources said on Thursday.