Overview
- Carabinieri detained a man and a woman over the July killing of a 52-year-old Berliner whose body was found in woodland near Castagno d'Andrea, close to Florence.
- Investigators say the suspected motive was to obtain roughly €3 million from life-insurance policies taken out in the victim’s name.
- Police allege she was lured on a forest walk, secretly sedated, moved to a secluded roadside, and fatally struck with a large stone, with the scene staged to look accidental.
- Authorities reported recovering a blood-stained stone near the body, and both suspects remain in custody as the investigation continues.
- Media identify the man as the victim’s partner and the woman as his acquaintance, and reports say the victim had been living in Italy with him and had given birth months before her death.