Circeo murder

The Circeo murder (also known as the Circeo crime) is a case of kidnapping and murder that took place in the Italian town of San Felice Circeo (on the Pontine coast, in the area of the homonymous promontory on the Tyrrhenian Sea).

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Massacre of the Circeo File:Donatella Colasanti.jpg Fullname: Massacre of the Circeo Location: San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy Date: 29th September-30th September 1975 Target: Donatella Colasanti Rosaria Lopez Attack type: Rapture Torture Murder Rape Deaths: 1 Non-fatal_injuries: 1 Perpetrators: Angelo Izzo Gianni Guido Andrea Ghira No. of participants: 3

The Event

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The tank tower "Fungus" of the EUR, the bar at the base was the site of the meeting between the two girls and Gianni Guido along with Angelo Izzo.

The meeting

On the 29th September 1975, Izzo, Guido and Ghira met at 4:00 p.m. with Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria Lopez, two girls who had met a few days earlier through a mutual friend. The two were invited to Circeo, in the villa of Ghira, in the locality of "Punta Rossa".

The massacre

Once they reached their destination they were raped, drugged, tortured and massacred for a total of thirty-five hours. Lopez was eventually taken to the bathroom on the first floor of the villa, where she was beaten and drowned in the bathtub, while Colasanti was nearly strangled with a belt and savagely beaten.

Aftermath

The two girls were then hidden in the trunk of the car of Guido's father and then went to have dinner. The lamentations of Colasanti, a survivor of the violence, attracted the attention of a night watchman who gave the alarm.

The Investigation and the Process

The investigation

The investigations were entrusted to the Carabinieri commanded by Marshal Gesualdo Simonetti that reconstructe the dynamics of the case thanks to Donatella's depositions.

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Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo on trial.

The trial

During the trial, Donatella was represented by the lawyer Tina Lagostena Bassi.

Arrest of the perpetrators

Izzo and Guido were arrested within a few hours while Ghira went into hiding. On the 29th July 1976, all three were sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree. The sentence was also confirmed in the subsequent degrees of trial for Izzo and Ghira, while Guido was granted the general extenuating circumstances on appeal, thus reducing the sentence to thirty years.

After, Andrea Ghira was released from prison.

Trivia

• This event was rappresented in the movie "I violenti di Roma bene" ("The violent of the wealthy Rome") (1976) and "The catholic school" (2021).