Overview

• Authorities arrested the victim’s ex-companion and he remains under interrogation after her body was found near her Macherio home around midnight on July 17.
• Forensic experts confirmed strangulation marks and are examining the victim’s remains to clarify cause and timing of death.
• Carabinieri have taken statements from Sanchez’s two teenage children and her grandmother to piece together events leading up to the killing.
• Investigators are probing a dispute over Sanchez’s employment as a possible motive for the fatal attack.
• Sanchez had fled domestic abuse in Peru with her children, underscoring the heightened risks immigrant survivors face.