Overview
- A diver spotted a woman’s body off Torre dell’Orso on Tuesday afternoon, and the Coast Guard recovered the remains for transfer to Lecce’s Vito Fazzi hospital.
- Carabinieri later forced entry into a home in Calimera and found her son, reported as 8 or 9 years old, dead with signs of violence consistent with a bladed weapon.
- The ex-husband alerted authorities earlier in the day by filing a disappearance report for the woman and child, triggering searches that linked the two scenes.
- Prosecutors and the Prefecture of Lecce initiated cross-checks with missing-person records, and investigators noted distinctive tattoos and piercings to aid formal identification.
- Investigators are treating an infanticide followed by the mother’s suicide as a working hypothesis pending autopsy and toxicology results, and local officials have urged restraint as inquiries continue.