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Missing Italian artist found dead in Turkey

ANKARA
Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:54am EDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - An Italian artist, hitchhiking to Israel in a wedding dress to appeal for peace, has been found dead in Turkey, state Anatolian news agency said on Saturday.

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Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, was traveling from Milan to Israel via the Balkans and Turkey. She had been missing for nearly two weeks.

Police found her naked body in a forest near the northwest city of Gebze after a male Turkish suspect showed them where her corpse was hidden.

The artist, also known as Pippa Bacca, was hitchhiking to Tel Aviv with a friend who was also wearing a wedding dress but they separated in Istanbul and were to meet in Beirut.
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