Overview

• FBI collaboration with Rome prosecutors revealed the suspect’s real identity as Francis Kaufmann, invalidating his alias Rexal Ford.
• Italian prosecutors accuse Kaufmann of murdering his eight-month-old daughter and hiding the mother’s body, with investigators still trying to confirm her real identity.
• Kaufmann has been detained in Greece on a European arrest warrant and is awaiting judicial approval for extradition to Italy.
• DNA samples have been sent to Rome’s forensic labs to verify the infant’s paternity and identify the woman previously known as “Stella.”
• Investigators are reviewing autopsy results to determine whether the mother also died by violence and to establish the timeline of the deaths.