Police on Thursday detained a suspect after a GP was bludgeoned to death in the southern Italian coastal town of Cetraro as she was out jogging.
The unnamed suspect was being questioned at Cetraro's police station over 53-year-old mother-of-two Anna Giordanelli's brutal murder on Wednesday an isolated track.
Police were also examining a crowbar covered in blood and strands of hair that was recovered near the crime scene. An autopsy was due to completed on Giordanelli on Thursday to establish the precise cause of her death.
A passerby found Giordanelli lying face down and called emergency services, believing she had been taken ill.
Police are interviewing Giordanelli's relatives and believe her family is connected to her murder, according to sources close to the investigation.
Giordanelli was married a geologist who works for Cetraro's town council and the couple had two sons, one of whom is a university student and the other is at middle school.
