Woman, 22, found dead of blood loss, neck wound in abandoned Italian church
A 22-year-old French woman was found dead in an abandoned and deconsecrated church in northern Italy last week after bleeding out from a deep wound to her neck.
The mysterious killing has been the subject of much speculation in Italy, especially after a witness came forward saying he saw the woman with her boyfriend, days before she died, and described the pair as “two vampires.”
The woman was “very beautiful, but suffering, emaciated,” the witness said, while the man had “black curls and an olive complexion.”
“They were dressed like two goths, all in dark. Like those kids who venerate death. I thought: two vampires. And I also thought something else, for which I now feel very ashamed. She was so pale that she looked like a corpse. I can’t sleep anymore knowing what happened,” the witness told the newspaper La Stampa.
The woman was found inside the ruined church on April 5, in the forests of Aosta Valley near the French and Swiss borders. She had been stabbed several times in the neck and abdomen, and medical examiners determined she died from blood loss from the neck wound, reports ANSA, an Italian newswire agency. It appeared that she died sometime in late March or early April.
There were blood stains and drag marks on the ground of the former church, signs that her body had been moved inside. Police also found a large stone covered in blood, according to L’Union Sarda, an Italian regional newspaper. Next to her body was a packet of marshmallows and pieces of garbage.
The victim was identified as Auriane Nathalie Laisne, a 22-year-old woman from Lyon, France, during a Thursday press conference held by the chief prosecutor of Aosta, Luca Ceccanti. Laisne’s boyfriend, Teima Sohaib, has been arrested for her murder, the
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