Murder of Victoria Cafasso
Victoria Cafasso was a 20-year-old dual British/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. A reward of was offered for information to help solve the crime. This was increased to by 2023. Background Cafasso was born in England, and her maternal grandparents continued to live there. Her grandfather had been involved in politics in Rome in the 1970s, her father was a lawyer and her mother owned a travel agency. 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. Deciding to defer her university law studies, Cafasso arranged to travel to England to see her grandmother and then 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