In Italy, the conversation around misogynistic gender-based violence received mainstream attention in the last decade. Recent data tells of 120 femicides in 2023, Italy alone, with romantic/marital partners recognized as aggressors in more than half of the cases. Using the NooJ platform, we have analyzed reporting surrounding seven high-profile criminal cases that occurred from 2005 to 2023. We constructed six grammars to compute statistics around potentially misogynistic tropes occurring in the corpus, such as pseudo-apologetic attitudes displayed towards the aggressors, infantilization of the victims, emphasis placed on women’s role as mothers, wives, and daughters, and recurrence of secondary victimization. We consider the way modern tech and social media influence both feminist advocacy campaigns and dynamics surrounding gender-based violence. The reconstruction of chronological events emerging from the corpus also highlighted a pattern of legal complaints and warning signs ultimately ignored by authorities.