Posted on 04/12/2008 11:21:16 PM PDT by ME-262
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
Turkish police say they have detained a man in connection with the killing.
Reports say the man led the police to the body.
Ms di Marineo was hitch-hiking from Milan to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a fellow artist on their "Brides on Tour" project.
They had separated in Istanbul, planning to reunite in Beirut.
Ms di Marineo was last seen on 31 March in Gebze.
An Italian embassy official told the Associated Press news agency police tracked the man when he put a new SIM card into Ms di Marineo's mobile phone.
Local media identified the suspect only by the initials MK and said he had a previous conviction for theft.
Ms di Marineo's sister, who had gone to Turkey to look for her, identified the body. An autopsy is being conducted in Istanbul.
"Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust," another sister, Maria, told the Italian news agency, Ansa.
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There’s a lesson in this story somewhere...
Paging the "Darwin Award" nomination committee...
Stupid is as stupid does?
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 - You simply cannot put your trust into the “kindness” of people. This is what happens.
Saddened but not one bit surprised.
This is very sad, and she was too much reliant on the good nature of others. Hitchhiking, anywhere, is extremely risky.
Well, there you go.
There’s a lesson in this story somewhere...
There is also a whole lot of dingbatism in this story.
Everything that anyone needs to know about contemporary liberalism encapsulated in one story.
But it’s a very old lesson. It’s the same one from the famous last line of Anne Frank’s diary:
“I still believe people are basically good at heart.”
No, they aren’t. They weren’t in 1944 and they aren’t now.
< “There’s a lesson in this story somewhere...” >
Perhaps it is “DON’T HITCHHIKE!!”
Idiot.
Seems like they were following the scientific method:
Hypothesis: All people will be good to you if you just trust them.
Experiment: Hike across Europe unarmed in a stupid get-up.
Data: Subject killed — a trusted person was not good to her.
Conclusion: (Stupid) hypothesis disproven.
Police found her naked body hidden amid bushes in a forest area, after questioning the suspect. Karatas had previously been convicted for theft, the official Anatolian Agency reported. DHA said he confessed that he first raped the Italian artist and then killed her. Karatas also said he took her from a gas station near Gebze.
***Stupid is as stupid does?***
Dadburnit! Beat me to it!
Have to disagree with you there. *Most* people are good at heart. Unfortunately, it only takes one who is not good at heart to ruin your whole day.
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