When Carol Maltesi announced her plan to leave the small Italian town she was living in to be closer to her six-year-old son in Verona, she didn't know her decision would trigger a deadly explosion of anger in her boyfriend.
The tragic fate of the 26-year-old Dutch-Italian model was already sealed when she first met the banker Davide Fontana in 2020, whose monstrous jealousy led to her murder in 2022.
Now, the Italian Court of Appeal has re-sentenced the killer to life behind bars. But three years on, the barbaric end to Maltesi's life at the hands of her maniac lover, now 45, still haunts Italian memory.
When the first details emerged, even veteran police officers were left shocked and upset.
The scene belongs to a horror film. In a fit of rage, Fontana struck the model 13 times with a hammer and stabbed her in the throat while she was tied up on a stripper pole - naked, gagged with tape and hooded.
