Overview

• Park visitors discovered a mother and her six-month-old daughter dead on June 7 in Rome’s Villa Pamphili, triggering a homicide investigation.
• Investigators combined witness testimonies, a charity registration document and mobile-phone data to identify 46-year-old American Rexal Ford as the suspect.
• Forensic analysis determined the infant died of suffocation, while experts continue to examine how the mother died.
• Ford fled Italy after the killings and was arrested on Skiathos on June 13; he remains in Greek custody under a European arrest warrant.
• With prior convictions for violence against women in the U.S., Ford has told authorities the baby was his daughter, a claim still awaiting DNA verification.