(ANSA) - Turin, October 23 - DNA samples taken from a body
found in countryside near Turin at the weekend is "compatible"
with that of Elena Ceste, a housewife who went missing in the
area early this year, investigators said Thursday.
The body was found on October 18 in an advanced state of
decomposition during work to clean a drainage canal at Isola
d'Asti in the northern Piedmont region.
Ceste, 37 and a mother of four, disappeared from her home
in Costigliole d'Asti on January 24.
Investigations were ongoing.
DNA on body matches missing mother
Elena Ceste, 37, disappeared in January from home near Turin