Man stabs ex-wife and flees with son, captured after 7-hour hunt

A 47-year-old Roman man stabbed his ex-wife multiple times in the chest in front of their teenage son and then accompanied her to the hospital, before fleeing immediately to a seaside town near Rome, taking the boy with him, and was caught after a seven-hour manhunt on Tuesday night, police said Wednesday. Although the woman did not die, it is just the latest incidence of murderous violence against women in Italy, which is enduring a femicide crisis. Emergency room doctors raised the alarm, saying the four stabs the woman received were not fatal only by accident. Initial information gathered by investigators from the Flying Squad, and the Tuscolano Police Station revealed that the victim had shortly before gone to an apartment in Fontana Candida, in the southern part of the capital, where