What She Did For Love

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores a report on 25-year-old Toni Dykstra of Los Angeles, who met and married Carlo Ventre, a successful 46-year-old Italian businessman, in 1994. After Toni gave birth to their child, Santina, the couple’s relationship soured. Despite a court custody order, Carlo fled to Italy with Santina in January 1998. Toni went to Italy where an Italian court ordered the baby returned to the U.S., but the day before she was to return home, Toni was found dead of head injuries in Carlo’s apartment. “48 Hours” correspondent Bill Lagattuta reports. This "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/27/19. Watch all-new episodes of 48 Hours on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.

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0:40.4	She called me on the phone and she was frantic, she was crying and I couldn't even understand
0:54.4	what she was saying.
0:55.4	She said Carla took Santina, Carla took Santina, he took the baby to Italy.
1:03.9	Nothing mattered more to Tony and Santina.
1:06.7	My name is Alan Skidmore, I was Tony Dijkstra's lawyer and her friend.
1:12.8	Tony scraped up the money, jumped on a plane, she was going to go do what she had to do
1:17.1	to get her baby back.
1:20.6	Carla was obsessed with Santina.
1:22.4	I do feel like I am a good father.
1:24.3	I think that my daughter would be better off with me than when her mother because Tony
1:28.4	was a violent person.
1:30.0	That's not what kind of person she was.
1:32.2	My name is Terry and I am the identical twin sister of Tony Dijkstra.
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