{
  "id": 18131669,
  "title": "Italian justice reopens case of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s murder, 51 years after his death",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/italian-justice-reopens-case-of-pier-paolo-pasolinis-murder-51-years",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-04T13:46:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais English",
    "slug": "el-pais-english",
    "url": "https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-11-04/italian-justice-reopens-case-of-pier-paolo-pasolinis-murder-51-years-after-his-death.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Italian justice has reopened the investigation into the murder of writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, 51 years after his death. The official account of the 1975 incident, which occurred in a vacant lot in Ostia outside Rome, is widely doubted by the general public. The 1975 verdict that convicted 17-year-old Pino Pelosi for the murder casts suspicion on whether he acted alone. Numerous theories and attempts to revisit the case have surfaced since then. The latest push to reopen the case comes from Rome attorney Stefano Maccioni, who has been investigating the murder for years, published books on his findings, and had previously secured a reopening of the case in 2010 and 2023 - though both times the investigation was closed without conclusive results. Maccioni filed a complaint against the prosecutor's office a year ago and the Rome District Attorney's Office has agreed to reopen the case, bringing renewed attention to the mysterious circumstances surrounding Pasolini's death.",
  "summary": "The Prosecutor’s Office will conduct an investigation following the emergence of a previously unknown witness and inquiries by a lawyer, who had already initiated new probes in 2010 and 2023",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}