Pamela Genini († 29), who was the victim of a brutal attack when her ex-partner Gianluca Soncin (52) massacred her and took the life of more like 30 stab wounds, she did not find peace even after death. The perpetrator desecrated her body in the cemetery – he separated the dead woman’s head from her body and carried her awaywrites the portal.
The body of the young woman, which is currently the subject of a judicial investigation, was mutilated by an unknown perpetrator in an inhuman way. The terrible discovery took place in March of this year in the Italian village of Strozza in the province of Bergamo. Cemetery workers were moving the coffin from the grave site to the family chapel, but they noticed suspicious marks – loose screws on the coffin and fresh silicone around the edges. When the coffin was opened, they found a headless body in it.
The prosecutor’s office in Bergamo, led by Maurizio Romanelli, immediately launched an investigation. According to Article 411 of the Italian Criminal Code Desecration of a corpse and theft of a head is punishable by two to seven years in prison. The rate is increased if the offender commits this act directly at the final resting place.
Gianluca Soncin murdered a young woman on October 14, 2025, on the terrace of her apartment in the Gorla district of Milan. The man had been stalking his victim for months before. He got into the apartment using a copy of the keys, which he had made without her knowledge. The neighbors, who were alerted by the woman’s scream, immediately called the emergency number 112.
The last minutes of Pamela’s life are captured by the chilling messages she sent to her friend. “I’m scared. The guy is completely crazy… I don’t know what to do.” she wrote at 9:46 p.m. “Tesa, what should I do? He has a spare key, he got in,” she sent one last desperate plea for help six minutes later. Her friend tried to calm her down by telling her that the police were already in front of the house and that she herself was on her way.
However, the emergency services arrived too late. Before the lawmen managed to break down the door, the perpetrator stabbed Pamela more than 30 times. Soncin terrorized her for over a year – he regularly threatened her with death, humiliated her, physically assaulted her, and even pointed a gun at her in the past.
The recidivist from Biella already had a criminal record for assault and fraud. After the murder, he tried to feign suicide, but the police arrested him on the spot. He is currently facing a charge of especially cruel murder with premeditated intent, with aggravating circumstances in the form of intention, emotional relationship, as well as from harassment and long-term persecution.
