Murder of Victoria Cafasso

Victoria Cafasso was a 20-year-old Italian tourist on holiday in Tasmania, Australia. Her body was found stabbed on a beach at Beaumaris in broad daylight on 11 October 1995. As of 2020, nobody has been identified as her killer.[1] A reward of A$100,000 has been offered for information to help solve the crime.[2]

Victoria Cafasso
Born
Victoria Anna Elizabeth Cafasso

(1975-06-08)8 June 1975
Surrey, England
Died11 October 1995(1995-10-11) (aged 20)
Beaumaris, Tasmania, Australia
Body discoveredBeaumaris Beach
Burial placeOspedaletti, Italy
Citizenshipdual Italian/English
OccupationLaw student
Known forUnsolved murder victim

Background

Cafasso was born in England, and her maternal grandparents continued to live there. She lived with her parents and younger sister in Ospedaletti, Italy and was a dual citizen of England and Italy. She spoke fluent Italian, English and French.[3]

During a break in her university studies, Cafasso arranged to travel to Tasmania to visit her cousin, whom she had only met twice previously. She arrived in Launceston on the afternoon of 6 October. She was met there by her cousin and a friend of his visiting from Sydney. On the way to his home in Beaumaris, they stopped at Shelley's Lookout, overlooking Beaumaris Beach, where she met three other local residents. Over the following few days, she went for two short walks and attended a small social gathering with her cousin and otherwise remained at his home.[3]

On the morning of 11 October, Cafasso went out for another walk at around 9 am, heading towards the beach. She is believed to have been observed sun baking on the beach at around 10 am. Police estimated that over 50 people would have visited the beach between 8:30 am and the time her body was discovered at about 1:30 pm. The state coroner found in 2005 that Cafasso had been violently attacked on the beach, initially defending herself from a blunt object, but not from the following knife attack. She probably died between 11:30 am and 12:35 pm.[3]

See also

References
  1. Uibu, Katri; Costelloe, Alison (4 October 2020). "Fifty people visited the beach the day Victoria Cafasso was murdered — her killer hasn't been found". Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. Holden, Lesley (12 October 2015). "Who killed Victoria Cafasso?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. CAFASSO, Victoria Anna Elizabeth [2005] TASCD 125 (23 March 2005), Coroners Court of Tasmania
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