Marta Russo was a 22 year old young woman, and a second year law student at La Sapienza University in Italy's capital city of Rome. She became the victim of one of Italy’s most controversial crimes when she was was shot and killed in broad daylight by an unseen perpetrator while walking to class on campus in 1997.

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Content Warnings:

• Violence Against Women

Maëlys de Araujo was mischievous and joyful eight year old little girl. She had no interest in princesses or cotton-candy pink, prefering to play football or make ramps in the garden to launch her bicycle over. She was last seen at a wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, France. The investigation into her disappearance shocked a nation and uncovered one of France’s most notorious murderers and paedophiles.

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Content Warnings:

• Violence Against Women
• Violence Against Children
• Sexual Assault of a Minor

Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, who also went by her maiden name of Bouniol, lived in Paris with her film producer husband, Daniel, and a son from her first marriage, Pierre. She had visited Ireland several times as a teenager and bought the cottage at Toormore - a remote part of rural West Cork - in 1993 as a holiday retreat. While visiting just before Christmas in 1996, she became the victim of one of Ireland’s most well-known unsolved crimes

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Content Warnings:

• Violence Against Women