The body of young woman found on June 7 in Rome’s Villa Pamphili park some 200 metres from the corpse of her baby daughter belonged to a Russian woman named Anastasia Trofimova, Rome prosecutors said on Thursday.

They said the 28-year-old woman was born in Omsk in Russia.

An American man, Francis Kaufmann, has been arrested in Greece in relation to the deaths.

Kaufmann had been travelling with a passport in the name of another person, Rexal Ford.

Italian investigators managed to identify the woman thanks to information obtained during a visit to Malta, where she and Kaufmann had been before arriving in Italy, sources said.

The Rome prosecutors office said the FBI and the Maltese authorities cooperated in identifying the woman.

It said she entered Malta in September 2023.

“The process of registering the child under the name of Andromeda Ford, born in Malta on 14 June, 2024, had been started at the US Embassy in Malta,” a statement said.

“Comparing the victim’s fingerprints with those on the passport will allow definitive certainty regarding the identification”.

‘Chi l’ha Visto’, a missing-persons show on State broadcaster Rai, tracked down a woman who said she was the mother of Anastasia.

She told the show that the deceased woman was studying English in Malta and had met Kaufmann there.