Explore 24 documented cases from Italy. Each file separates established findings from allegations and unresolved questions, with a focus on investigation rather than graphic detail.
Labor-law scholar Marco Biagi was murdered outside his Bologna home in 2002 in an attack claimed by the New Red Brigades. Multiple members of the organization received final convictions, including four life sentences.
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Sara Di Pietrantonio was killed in Rome in 2016. Vincenzo Paduano was definitively convicted of murder and stalking, with life imprisonment confirmed by the Court of Cassation in 2021.
Open case file →Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Rome in 1978 after five escort officers were killed. He was murdered after 55 days; multiple Red Brigades members were later convicted.
Open case file →Pamela Mastropietro was murdered in Macerata in 2018. Innocent Oseghale was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, a result that survived later Court of Cassation review.
Open case file →Maurizio Gucci was shot dead outside his Milan office in 1995. His former wife Patrizia Reggiani and four accomplices were convicted of the premeditated contract killing; her original 29-year sentence was later reduced to 26 years on appeal.
Open case file →Donato Bilancia was convicted for seventeen murders committed across Liguria and Piedmont in 1997–1998 and received thirteen life sentences.
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Giulia Tramontano was murdered in Senago in 2023. Alessandro Impagnatiello remains sentenced to life imprisonment; a 2026 appeal-bis concerns only the aggravating circumstance of premeditation.
Open case file →Melania Rea disappeared in April 2011 and was later found dead near Civitella del Tronto; her husband Salvatore Parolisi was convicted, with a definitive 20-year sentence confirmed by the Court of Cassation in 2016.
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The violent gang active from 1987 to 1994 was largely composed of police officers; core members received final convictions, while prosecutors reopened questions about possible additional accomplices in 2026.
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Marco died after a gunshot at his girlfriend's family home in 2015; the final judgment centered on the delayed emergency response and made four convictions definitive.
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Thirty-two people died in a railway disaster; after nearly seventeen years of litigation, eleven criminal convictions became final in June 2026.
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Eighty-five people were killed at Bologna Centrale; decades of trials produced multiple final convictions, including proceedings concluded in 2025 and 2026.
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Willy Monteiro Duarte was killed during a group assault in Colleferro in 2020; four men were convicted of intentional homicide.
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A 22-year-old engineering student was murdered by her former boyfriend in 2023; his life sentence became final in 2025.
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Two young women, Rosaria Lopez and Donatella Colasanti, were abducted and attacked by three men in 1975. Lopez was killed; Colasanti survived.
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Three-year-old Samuele Lorenzi was killed in the family home in Cogne in 2002, and suspicion soon centered on his mother, Annamaria Franzoni.
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Thirteen-year-old Yara Gambirasio disappeared after leaving a sports center in 2010. Her body was found months later near Bergamo.
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Fifteen-year-old Sarah Scazzi disappeared in Avetrana in 2010, and the investigation eventually focused on members of her extended family.
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Sixteen-year-old Elisa Claps disappeared after going to a church in Potenza in 1993. Her remains were discovered in the church attic in 2010.
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Twenty-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni was killed in the Rome office where she worked in 1990, beginning one of Italy’s longest-running murder mysteries.
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Four people, including a young child, were killed in an apartment building in Erba in 2006. A fifth victim survived.
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In 2001, Susy Cassini and her young son Gianluca De Nardo were killed in their home in Novi Ligure. Initial claims of an outside intruder quickly collapsed.
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