Overview
- Police discovered the body of 72-year-old Carmela Bifano in a rural plot in Villaggio Frassa and opened an immediate homicide inquiry.
- Investigators reported multiple head injuries and said the wounds are consistent with blunt-force trauma that may have been inflicted with stones.
- The Procura di Castrovillari ordered a forensic autopsy to establish the exact cause and manner of death.
- After a prolonged interrogation, prosecutors ordered the detention of Bifano’s husband and police are examining his statements and the family context.
- Authorities are keeping details limited as forensic work and on-site searches continue, and the case feeds into Italy’s broader attention to gender-based killings.