Italian football journalist Luca Esposito was found shot and burned in a remote field near Eboli in the southern Italian province of Salerno on Sunday 19 July, in a suspected murder that has triggered a major homicide inquiry and urgent questions over whether his work may have played a part in his killing.
The 53-year-old, whose legal first name was Luigi, went missing on Saturday night after friends lost contact with him. In the early hours of Sunday, firefighters were called to tackle a blaze on farmland at Bivio Cioffi, outside Eboli.