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American Artist Found Strangled In Her Italian Apartment

A murder investigation is under way in Florence after Italian police found the body of a 35-year-old American woman in her apartment. Ashley Ann Olsen was found dead with strangulation marks on her neck in her bedroom by her boyfriend, on Saturday. Olsen was well known in Florence’s artistic neighborhoods. The Guardian reports: Her body was discovered on Saturday after Olsen’s Italian boyfriend asked her landlady to open her apartment because she wasn’t responding to his calls, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. Both the victim’s boyfriend and friends are said to have spoken to investigators at length. No suspects have yet been named by police and an autopsy is due to be carried out to confirm how Olsen was killed. Her phone and computer have been seized by investigators as they try to piece together her last movements, Italian media said. Olsen used her Instagram account to suggest she was receiving unwanted attention, although from the nature of the posts it wasn’t clear if she was joking about pictures taken by friends. In one photo she wrote “I have a #stalker” with an image of her walking her dog, while another of her shopping in Santo Spirito’s popular [...]