Giulia Cecchettin, 22yo, should have graduated in Biomedical Sciences at the Padua University last Thursday. But on Saturday 11th November she accepted to go out to dinner with her ex, Filippo Turetta, 22yo, same faculty. She had left him months ago, but agreed to stay friends with him because apparently he had been absolutely devastated by the breakup and she was worried for him. Their relationship had lasted a year and half, Giulia had decided to stop seeing him because he was too possessive and jealous.
After her graduation she had planned to move to another Italian region to study art and apparently the impending separation made the fucker incredibly anxious. Something happens during the dinner, a man hears them fighting near his house and calls the police, but when they arrive Filippo already kidnapped her. He takes her to another zone of the town of Fossò, where their fight is caught by a security camera of the Christian Dior plant. Giulia tries to run, but he attacks her and stabs her 20 times with a knife. The security guard at Dior, who sees the footage the next day, is still shocked by the violence of the aggression.
Filippo puts her in his car and, looking at the reconstruction made by the police, he takes local roads to reach the place where he wants to hide the body: a ravine not far from the artificial lake of Barcis, more than 100 miles from where he started. He doesn't just throw the body in the ravine, he brings it there and hides it with a few garbage bags. Then he runs. Giulia's body is found the following week, while Filippo will be caught in Germany on Sunday, exhausted and pennyless, by the German police.
From the Italian police investigation it seems he had planned something, perhaps he wanted to kidnap her so to make her miss her graduation exam, allowing him to earn a few months to convince her to rethink her decision to break up with him. He apparently looked for surviving kits and maps of mountain paths. He will be extradited from Germany in a few days.
A few articles in English:
Disappearance
Article about Filippo Turetta
Reactions to the video of the aggression
Body found
Turetta arrested