Morrone killings

The Morrone killings, known in Italian as the Delitto del Morrone (English: Morrone Crime), is a crime that occurred on 20 August 1997 in the Mandra Castrata woods, near the San Leonardo Pass on Montagne del Morrone, in Abruzzo. The event had great media coverage also due to the extremely barbaric nature of the crime, perpetrated by the Macedonian shepherd Halivebi Hasani against Diana Olivetti, Silvia Olivetti (the only survivor) and Tamara Gobbo, three young women originally from the Padua area. The case was compared by journalists of the time, focusing on the violence of the event, to the Circeo massacre, which had occurred 22 years earlier.

The three girls were attacked after asking for directions on the path to follow to reach the top of the mountain. The shepherd, after having accompanied them courteously to the entrance of the Mandra Castrata forest, took out his gun and fired two shots at Silvia Olivetti and Tamara Gobbo. Thinking he had killed them, he attacked Diana Olivetti, attempting to rape her, and then fired a final shot at the young woman's heart. The investigations were resolved in a few hours thanks to the testimony of Silvia Olivetti, who survived the massacre only after pretending to be dead during the incident.

Halivebi Hasani, known to the local community as Alì, did not try to hide or eliminate the evidence. Silvia Olivetti managed to raise the alarm and describe the events to the authorities, filling ten pages of reports and identifying the culprit among the mugshots of seven other shepherds. Hasani confessed 24 hours later, on 21 August, after the last search of the independent farmhouse in Capoposto, where he lived in extreme solitude.