Mother and eight-month-old baby girl found murdered in Villa Pamphilj were American

ROME - The woman and eight-month-old baby girl found murdered last Saturday in the Villa Doria Pamphilj park and the man who most likely killed them have been identified as American, all three, according to police. 

 The man however appears to have Latin traits, whereas the mother and child had purely Anglo-Saxon physiognomy, indicating that the girl's father was another man. The victims and also the alleged murderer have been identified but not publicly named by the police. On Wednesday evening the police decided to share details of the case on the TV program "Who saw it?", in an attempt to recover more information. The four tattoos of the mother were made public in an attempt to identify her and a viewer subsequently called in to say that days before the discovery of the bodies he had seen a woman and a man not far from Villa Doria Pamphilj arguing and a violent dispute ensued and which led to the intervention of the police.

 Therefore, the police had already identified the man and woman, prior to the double murder. The man has already fled abroad and international police forces were on the look-out for him as he was wanted on charges of double aggravated murder.

 According to the testimony of the Giardini service that operates right in the park and who, days before the discovery of the bodies, had seen the woman and the man sleeping on a makeshift bed. "I told them that they couldn't stay there and I told him in English.” The tent that they were using to camp had been provided to them by a humanitarian association and according to the testimonies of the employees of the San Silverio market, ​​San Pietro, and the homeless people who live in the nearby park, the two victims would have lived there for most of the month of May, before "moving" to Villa Pamphilj. The man was violent and the woman did not want to bring him closer to the little girl. 

 The little girl’s body was found last Saturday and hours later the that of the mother was found naked, covered in a plastic sheet in an advanced stage of decomposition due to the heat. 

 The autopsies revealed that little girl, before dying, had been beaten and not fed at all for days but ultimately died due to suffocation. It is still unclear how the mother died, common drugs and alcohol have been ruled out and investigators are hypothesising that she too died of suffocation as there were no stab wounds present. While natural causes have not yet been ruled out, what is clear is that her body was hidden.

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