Overview
- The child’s father alerted Carabinieri in the morning after his son failed to arrive at school, reporting his ex-wife and the boy missing.
- A scuba diver located a woman’s body off Torre dell’Orso in the early afternoon, and the Port Authority recovered the remains.
- Preliminary on-scene findings suggest the woman died only hours before discovery, pending confirmation from medico-legal exams.
- Carabinieri later forced entry into a Calimera residence and found the 8-year-old dead with wounds compatible with a cutting weapon, and the home was seized for forensic work.
- Prosecutors ordered the body transferred to the Vito Fazzi mortuary as investigators note distinctive tattoos and piercings to aid identification and examine a possible homicide–suicide without ruling out other leads.