Porn star ex-companion charged with 'lady in lake' murder

Franco Mossoni 'killed Federica Giacomini aka Ginevra Hollander'

(ANSA) - Vicenza, June 30 - The former companion of an Italian porn star was charged with her murder Monday, 13 days after her body was found in a crate at the bottom of Lake Garda. Franco Mossoni, 55, currently in a psychiatric hospital after breaking into a ward dressed as Rambo in March, was arrested on suspicion of killing Federica Giacomini aka Ginevra Hollander and throwing her body into the lake.

Giacomini went missing from Vicenza February 9. Mossoni recently completed a jail term for killing a man in Lombardy in the late 1970s. He had been living with the well-known performer, 43, in her home town Brescia.

Mossoni has been sectioned in a psychiatric ward since the March 20 incident, when he threatened staff with a toy gun. Police later found crossbows, knives, women's clothing and documents belonging to Giacomini in the room Mossoni had in her flat.