The body of Sara Luciani, 21, who
went missing Friday night after going out with her fiancée who
committed suicide a few hours later, was found on Wednesday
afternoon in a canal near Milan.
Luciani's fiancée Manuel Buzzini, 31, hanged himself in the
backyard of the building where his grandmother lived in Melzo,
near Milan.
Investigators suspect that he killed his girlfriend before
committing suicide although the motive is unclear, sources said.
Luciani's body was discovered by a passerby near the
hydroelectric power plant in Paullo, not far from the area where
the bumper of her fiancée's car, aboard which she was last seen
alive, was found.
Investigators are still looking for the car.
Autopsy results released Tuesday found no signs of violence
on Manuel Buzzini's body and revealed that he had used cocaine
prior to his death.
Buzzini entered rehab in 2013 for drug addiction but had been
clean for a while now, investigators said.
An eye witness said he saw Luciani and her boyfriend with a
third person in his car Friday night shortly before she
disappeared although Carabinieri police in Cassano d'Adda
investigating the case said the man was one of the couple's
friends who was with them only briefly.
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