American artist Ashley Olsen was ‘strangled to death with rope or cord’

Found dead in flat: Artist Ashley Olsen
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Michael Howie13 January 2016

An American woman found murdered in her Florence apartment was strangled with an object such as a rope or cord, a post mortem has revealed.

Prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo said more lab results were needed to pinpoint the time of 35-year-old Ashley Olsen’s death.

Her naked body was found with bruises on her neck on Saturday.

Police think that she was killed on Friday after a late night at the Montecarla club, which has had its licence suspended three times after cocaine dealers were caught there.

Detectives have spoken to her boyfriend, Italian-American artist Federico Fiorentini, 42, and said he is not a suspect.

Her father Walter Olsen, an art professor who lives round the corner from his daughter’s apartment, called her “beautiful and creative” and said he had faith in the murder investigation.

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