Crusading hitchhiker’s body is found in Turkey

TURKISH investigators found the body of an Italian artist, last seen in March hitchhiking in a wedding gown, and detained a man suspected of murdering her, officials said on Saturday.

Police found the nude body of 33-year-old Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo in bushes in a forested area near the mostly industrial town of Gebze, northern Turkey, the governor’s office for the city said.

Private news agency Dogan, quoting morgue officials, reported that di Marineo had been strangled with a rope.