The Unsolved Murder of Lea Polvani

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Artist Lea Polvani was abducted right in front of her apartment. Four days later she was found murdered in a cave. Almost 40 years later the crime remains one of Italy's most baffling cold cases.

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.0	This is The Shocking Details.
0:13.1	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:18.0	I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldononey. And we've got a pretty shocking mystery.
0:24.9	Kind of a murdery kind of mystery this week. I know. Yeah, this is from 1983, November 29th, to be precise.
0:33.9	Something strange and awful happened to a woman named Leinarda, Bavani, Leah for short.
0:40.9	She was Italian living in Italy, 28 years old. She and her husband lived in a peaceful
0:46.4	suburb of Bologna called Casalecchio di Reno. I got that right, didn't I? Yeah, yeah, I think
0:53.5	you're the you're the
0:55.3	podcast expert on italian uh i knew better with italian than plenty of languages yeah you do
1:01.5	that we do on the podcast i should say yeah uh i'm still working on my english actually me personally
1:06.9	but uh so anyway back to lea here uh leia was a jewelry designer who was married to a philosophy teacher.
1:15.2	And you wrote here happily married.
1:17.2	I don't know, can he be happily married to a philosophy teacher?
1:19.5	What, what is happiness?
1:21.7	You know, let's talk about, no, just kidding.
1:25.0	Apparently they had a pretty good relationship.
1:27.0	That is what contemporary reporting says. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, they had a pretty good relationship. That is what contemporary reporting says.
1:29.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:29.9	Anyway, so that, and Leah herself had only two exams left before her graduation from the Domes, which is the...
1:37.1	D-A-MS, I believe it was what that.
1:39.2	I believe it was a yeah.
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