Killed by the man who claimed to love her, Pamela Genini found no peace even in the white coffin that held her body, massacred with over 30 stab wounds by 52-year-old Gianluca Soncin last October in Milan.
The body of the 29-year-old - now under judicial seizure - was inhumanely desecrated, her head severed from the body and taken away .
The macabre discovery dates back to last Monday, when the coffin, kept in the cemetery of Strozza, a village in the Imagna Valley, in the Bergamo province, was to be moved from the burial niche to the family chapel. Workers noticed something was wrong with the coffin—screws had come loose, silicone was on the edges—and upon opening the coffin , they found the young woman's headless body .
The Bergamo Public Prosecutor's Office, headed by Maurizio Romanelli, has opened an investigation into the desecration of the corpse. The alleged crimes are desecration of a corpse and theft of the head, under Article 411 of the Criminal Code, which carries a sentence of two to seven years, increased if the offense occurs within a cemetery.
Pamela was killed on October 14, 2025, by her ex-partner, Gianluca Soncin , on the terrace of her apartment on Via Iglesias, in the Gorla neighborhood of Milan. The man, who had already stalked her in the previous months, had entered the house with a copy of the keys made without her knowledge. Alerted by her screams, the neighbors immediately called 112.
"I'm scared. This guy's completely crazy... I don't know what to do," Pamela wrote to a friend at 9:46 PM. And six minutes later, the last desperate message she sent before being killed: "Teso, what do I do? He has a spare key, he got in." Her friend tried again to reassure her: "The police are coming, I called them and I'm on my way too, open up, the police are downstairs."
Within seconds, however, the 52-year-old—who for over a year had threatened to kill her and her mother, humiliated her, beaten her, attempted to strangle her, and held a gun to her stomach—had stabbed her more than 30 times , before the police were able to break down the apartment door. Soncin, originally from Biella, previously arrested for a luxury car scam and with a criminal record for assault, had staged a suicide attempt after the murder. He was stopped and subsequently arrested on charges of murder, aggravated by premeditation, cruelty, frivolous motives, and the bond of an emotional relationship, as well as stalking.
(Unioneonline)
