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Italy Seeks Extradition of US Man Held in Greece for Rome Double Murder

Questions have emerged about police failures to intervene in earlier domestic violence reports.

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Overview

  • Authorities found the bodies of Anastasia T., 29, and her 12-month-old baby on June 7 in Rome’s Villa Pamphili park.
  • Charles Francis Kaufmann, arrested on June 13 in Skiathos, remains in Greek custody as Italy files for his extradition on murder charges.
  • Surveillance footage and tracking data linked Kaufmann to two police stops for domestic violence against the victim in the weeks before the killings.
  • Italian investigators are examining how Kaufmann obtained €863,595 in film grants from the Ministry of Culture for a movie that was never produced.
  • DNA tests are under way to establish whether Kaufmann was the father of the infant he is accused of killing.