Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, who was stabbed to death on the night of June 6, 2000 by three young girls during a satanic ritual.On the night between the 6th and the 7th of June 2000 at Chiavenna, a little town in the province of Sondrio, in Lombardy, on the border between Italy and Switzerland, a catholic nun, Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, belonging to the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross, was killed with nineteen stabs by three girls. Two girls were seventeen and one was sixteen. The Sister, who was well known in the small town she lived in, and in the surroundings[2], for her social and charitable commitment to young dispossessed and poor people, fell into a well planned trap. During the night, under the false pretext of a pregnant girl who found herself in serious difficulties and needed her help, the three young murderers were able to draw the nun into an ambush, leading her to an isolated place. Sister Laura didnt suspect any danger being well accustomed to frequently doing such charitable deeds.
According to the reconstruction done by the investigators and the elements emerging from interviews to the three murderers, the nun was, at first, hit on her head with a small cube of porphyry and with a stab, then the three murderers obliged her to kneel, as a gesture of submission, in compliance with a symbolic ritual. She was repeatedly hit by them that in the meantime were hurling abuse at her. They made use of two knives to carry out their macabre rite, while the nun was praying and was granting them her forgiveness.
