Italy. A 19-year-old woman suffering from anorexia and depression (without pharmacological treatment) had experienced a new exacerbation of her symptoms during the closure of COVID-19. The young woman's body was discovered impaled with her head and right forearm on the spikes of the railing of the apartment building, suspended in the air. Shortly after the discovery, police officers, firefighters and medical personnel arrived in the courtyard of the apartment building along with the victim's mother, who was returning home from work.

The iron fence where the girl's body was found impaled through the head (arrow). Evidence of the window of the apartment where the girl lived and detail of the body in perpendicular correspondence (both indicated with arrows).

Inspection of the apartment, located on the sixth floor of the apartment complex, revealed no signs of forced entry, the rooms appeared tidy. The bedroom window was discovered wide open and was located at a height of 15 m above the highest part of the railing. The girl's body could be observed in perpendicular correspondence with the open window, at a distance of 50 cm from the wall of the building. No farewell notes were found in the house, but several messages to friends on the victim's cell phone revealed deep inner suffering due to the social isolation and distance learning caused by the pandemic.

A passerby stated that, shortly before the discovery of the body, he had seen a girl standing by the window, turn around and fall into the void with her arms outstretched. Based on these reports and the position of the hands and arms, the hypothesis that the penetrating head injury could be due to a failed attempt to climb over the railing, during which she slipped, could be ruled out almost immediately. The parts of the fence attached to the body were cut away by firefighters, and the whole block was taken as a unicum to the Forensic Institute. The autopsy was performed three days after the event.