A lurid murder in an Italian city where murders are rare continues to draw media attention from throughout Europe and the United States.

The grisly November slaying of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Great Britain, lends itself to stereotypes straight out a made-for-TV movie.

“There’s a beautiful American, a femme fatale. There’s the Italian loner (her boyfriend),” says Zachary Nowak, a writer from the U.S. who lives in Perugia, a small city north of Rome.

New information in a murder case with a Clinton connection offers a picture of a chatty lawyer who may have said too much for his own good.

On Dec. 20 of last year, police arrested Carlos Perez-Olivo, a disbarred lawyer. They charged him will killing his wife, Peggy Hall Perez-Olivo, in Westchester County in November 2006.

Perez-Olivo and his family live three doors down from the home of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in Chappaqua, N.Y. They’ve been there since the middle of 2006.

New York City police arrested the personal assistant to celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein today, charging her with murdering her boss by bludgeoning her with yoga equipment.

Natavia Lowery, 26, confessed to killing Stein after Stein refused to stop blowing marijuana in her face, police said. Lowery told investigators that Stein had verbally abused her and that she had snapped. She said she repeatedly struck Stein with a yoga stick.

Linda Stein, punk rock band manager and real estate agent to the stars, was found dead Tuesday night in her apartment on Manhattan’s upper east side.

Police said she had been bludgeoned to death.

Stein, 62, co-managed the Ramones, a band that recorded on a record label founded by her ex-husband, Seymour Stein. She later became a real estate agent, buying and selling upscale digs for Billy Joel, Sylvester Stallone, Debra Winger, Perry Ellis and other celebrities.