The 65-year-old suspect is accused of killing two young women in January 1977.
A man suspected of the brutal killing of two women in Australia nearly a half-century ago has been arrested in Rome on an international arrest warrant, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Saturday.The 65-year-old suspect, who has dual Greek and Australia n citizenship, was detained at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Thursday after landing on a flight that had departed from Greece , ANSA said.
Australian police said on Saturday they would start the process of extraditing the suspect, and Italian courts would set the timeline.The suspect is accused of killing two friends - Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28 - in a knife attack that shocked Australia in January 1977.The young women were found dead in their rented house on Easey Street in Melbourne, while Armstrong's 16-month-old son was left unharmed in his cot in another room.
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