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Rexal Ford Held in Greece over Rome Mother and Infant Murders

Italian investigators are reconstructing Ford’s movements from phone and bank records ahead of an expected extradition

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Overview

  • Ford was arrested on June 13 in Skiathos, Greece, on suspicion of killing his eight-month-old daughter and concealing the body of the child’s mother found in Villa Pamphilj park
  • Authorities have sent Ford’s DNA sample to Italy’s scientific police to verify his claim of paternity
  • Investigators are analyzing his mobile phone cell data and financial transactions, including a credit-card purchase of his flight to Greece, to map his actions before and after the killings
  • Probes have uncovered Ford’s history of identity misrepresentation, such as using a different name in U.S. records and providing a false hotel contact to police
  • Witnesses say Ford posed as a film producer in Rome and approached other women in the days following the discovery of the bodies