Antonella Di Massa Found Dead: A Tragic Discovery

«'Antonella Di Massa unfortunately found dead by the reporters of 'Who has seen her?'. This was announced by the well-known Rai Tre show on 'X', referring to the 51-year-old woman from Casamicciola who disappeared in Ischia on Saturday, February 17, when she left her home without further news. To say she left is a manner of speaking because, most likely, the woman had never left the island. From her home in the north of the island to the area where the body was found in the south of the island, there are 12 kilometers. And the woman's body was just over 300 meters from her car. Moreover, it's just an initial hypothesis that comes from Ischia, where the scientific team has begun their investigations, but the woman's death could date back to no more than 48 hours ago. There would be, therefore, a week of 'darkness' from the day of her disappearance in the woman's movements. What happened «Francesco Paolo Del Re and Marco Monti - reads the tweet from 'Who has seen her' - immediately notified the family and the authorities. The husband and the Carabinieri arrived at the scene. The body was a few hundred meters from the Succhivo di Serrara Fontana parking lot, where the woman's car had been found, disappeared on February 17 from Casamicciola Terme, on the island of Ischia, and a camera had captured her». The disappearance The woman had lost her tracks at 12:17 PM on Saturday, February 17, when the video surveillance system of the Church of Succhivo had recorded her last contact. The search machine never stopped looking for her and this morning, after another inspection of the area, the tragic discovery was made. A file on the woman's discovery has been opened by the Naples Prosecutor's Office, which will clarify the matter. The woman's body will be subjected to an autopsy. Beyond the causes of death, it remains to be clarified how it was possible not to find, in about ten days of searching, the body in that area which had also been searched with dogs and drones. Was the body perhaps transported there only after the woman's death? In the days following the disappearance, a large search operation was set up involving many law enforcement officers, several volunteers, helicopters, canine units, drones, and a Coast Guard boat that had scoured the southern areas of the island from the sea. The searches and the mystery of the body The searches continued even at night using thermal scanners and extending them to other areas of the island and viewing the footage of many video surveillance systems and asking for the cooperation of the shipping companies but to no avail: the woman seemed to have vanished into thin air. Then, this morning, Antonella's body was found by a crew of Who has seen her, under some trees on a plot of land bordering a country road, very busy. Moreover, the owners of the land, among other things, declared they had been there the day after the woman's disappearance and had not noticed anything strange. The prevailing hypothesis by the investigators is that the woman committed suicide, a hypothesis that may be confirmed by the autopsy. However, questions remain. When and where did Antonella die? If she died in the same place where the body was found, how come the searches were in vain, considering that the rescue teams have passed dozens of times in that area? There are also those who speculate that it was not a suicide and that the body may have been placed there recently, but at the moment there is no confirmation of this rumor. During the searches, on the disappearance of the housewife, married with two daughters, several hypotheses circulated, including that the woman could have left the island, or that she was still in Ischia and that, with the help of someone, she was hiding in some house or country cottage, as a note found at the family's home several days after the woman's departure might suggest. According to the authorities, Antonella was searched for, on the southern side of Ischia, practically everywhere, also with the collaboration of the Alpine Speleological Rescue: the search teams especially combed the ravines and the most inaccessible areas between Succhivo, Panza, and Sant'Angelo. In the square of Panza, the dogs picked up some traces, a circumstance that led to the hypothesis that the woman, after abandoning her car, had passed through that area, perhaps using a bus.