Overview

• On Sept. 29–30, 1975, Angelo Izzo, Gianni Guido and Andrea Ghira abducted Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria Lopez at San Felice Circeo, torturing them until Lopez died and Colasanti survived by feigning death.
• Colasanti’s testimony underpinned first‑instance life sentences, establishing the case as a national reckoning with gendered violence.
• Gianni Guido later received a 30‑year term, escaped custody twice abroad, was returned to Italy, and regained freedom in 2009 after sentence reductions.
• Granted semi‑liberty in late 2004, Angelo Izzo kidnapped and murdered Maria Carmela Linciano and her 14‑year‑old daughter in 2005, leading to another life sentence.
• Andrea Ghira remained a fugitive and was posthumously identified via 2005 DNA tests as having died in Melilla in 1994, with doubts about that identification persisting, as new podcasts and books revisit the case’s legacy and its role in spurring later legal reforms.