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Authorities hunting for a German couple who abandoned the woman’s three young children at a pizzeria in northwestern Italy searched local Alpine rivers Wednesday to see if the man and woman had committed suicide.
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View of the “Joli” hotel taken in Aosta, Italy Wednesday, April 22, 2009, where a German woman and her companion were sleeping before abandoning her three young children in the “Il Capanno” (The Hut) pizzeria. The German couple had dinner at the...
