Cops seek suspect in escort hotel murder

(ANSA) - Bologna, August 5 - Police are seeking a suspect in the stabbing murder of an escort whose body was found Friday in a two-star hotel room in the Bologna-area town of San Pietro in Casale. The 47-year-old woman was lying on the bed and had several stab wounds.
    Police are seeking a man, also aged 47, who left the Hotel Melograno located along Provincial Road 20 at 01:00 in the morning. He is from Ferrara and is known to police because he was under house arrest for robbing a prostitute.
    Investigators traced the man's identity after recovering the victim's agenda. He fled in the victim's car, leaving his own at the hotel.
    The hotel maid entered the room at 07:00, saw the woman lying under a sheet, thought she was asleep and left. The owner of the hotel went back up later in the day and discovered the body.