Susanna Recchia and her little daughter were still found hugging in the Piave

Susanna Recchia, 45, and her 3-year-old daughter were found in the waters of the Piave. They were still hugging each other.

Susanna Recchia had moved away from her home in Maine, a few kilometers from Treviso, leaving a long letter to her ex-partner in which she wrote that she wanted to end it all.

On Friday evening, Susanna had sent a message to her ex-partner telling him to come around 8pm on Saturday to pick up the little girl.

The woman had 12 hours to leave her home in Miane, with the little girl, aboard her white Volkswagen Tiguan. At the house she left a five-page letter in which she expressed her discomfort and her desire to end it all.

It was the ex who saw the papers in the morning, when he found neither the woman nor the daughter. The Conegliano Police were immediately notified and the search for a person was subsequently alerted through a note from the Treviso Prefecture.

Yesterday evening the car was found in a parking lot in Covolo di Pederobba, near the Vidor bridge that crosses the Piave river where the bodies were found downstream, on a small island not far from the Isola dei Morti in the municipality of Moriago della Battaglia. The last to see the woman alive were her neighbors.

The Treviso Public Prosecutor's Office will open a case with the hypothesis of the crime of murder-suicide for the death of Susanna Recchia and her three-year-old daughter whose bodies were found on an island in the Piave River.

This was announced by the Prosecutor Marco Martani who considers the case "without shadows and with a clear development" while he reserves the right to wait for the data on the first necropsy examination to evaluate whether to assign the task of the autopsy on the bodies.

The woman was suffering from "major depression"

“It is clear that the woman was the victim of what is called major depression,” says Martani, “a mental illness that often gives no warning or is at least difficult for non-experts to interpret.”

“A form of depression – he adds – that makes you see only tragedies in the future and that, as a probable protective gesture, pushes you to take with you those you love”.