The beheaded woman of Castelgandolfo

On the morning of 10 July 1955, the headless body of a woman was found on the shore of Lake Castelgandolfo. The police doctor established that before being decapitated the woman had been stabbed repeatedly in the stomach, chest and back. Her head, which was never found, was also cut off by the same expert hand. 

The body was that of a woman of between 25 and 30 years old,shapely, tanned, with red nail varnish on her fingers and toes. On her right wrist she was wearing a white gold Zeus watch. Next to the body the Carabinieri found a key ring, a triangular earring, and part of a photo of a man and a woman arm-in-arm. The description of the body found on the shore of the lake matched that of a housemaid who had been reported missing by her employers, the Gasparri family, at the end of June. 

The victim was Antonietta Longo, born in Mascalucia, in the province of Catania, on 25 July 1925.The motive of Antonietta Longo’s death and the murderer’s identity remained a mystery, but she was long remembered as the “Beheaded Woman of Castelgandolfo”. Her body was buried in the cemetery at Mascalucia.

(Source: abinferis)