Un murder brutal, with blows of accepts. Then the knives used to cut the corpse and throw it in a channels. A mystery solved by the wife's confession and the confirmation of her words. A crime with chilling contours and circumstances yet to be clarified, perhaps linked to a serious mental imbalance in an apparently calm elderly couple.
In just under a month, the Carabinieri di Rovigo they solved the mystery of themurder di Shefki Kurti, 72 years old, Albanian citizen residing in Badia Polesine (Rovigo), whose body was recovered in pieces, closed in garbage bags, between 28 and 31 July, in several places of the Adigetto canal, Between Lendinara e Villanova del GhebboLast Saturday the military of the Polesano Provincial Command arrested his wife rare, 68 years.
The woman's confession is of the August 18th; in nine days the investigators verified that her statements were consistent with what was gathered during the investigations, in the doubt that the woman is not capable of understanding and willing. Since August 12, the elderly woman, who has been followed by a specialist for years, has in fact been hospitalized in the ward of psychiatry of the Rovigo hospital, and now that the precautionary measure has been triggered she is guarded by the police.
An assessment, already ordered, will verify his psychological conditions, and consequently the precautionary measure could change. The inspection of the premises was fundamental for the investigations. Ris di Parma on August 8, they found traces of her dead husband's blood inside the house where the couple lived.
Traces that had apparently been eliminated by the wife, who had thoroughly cleaned the house after the murder. In her confession, the woman said she had used an axe and knives, hit her husband and then cut the body into pieces so that it could be transported more easily to theAdigetto, channel that to Badia it breaks away from theAdige to throw oneself into Canal Bianco after Adria.
The axe and three kitchen knives, one of which was serrated, were found after the confession, between August 19 and 20. It seems that the woman first hit her husband from behind in the bedroom, with the axe, and then moved to the bathroom to chop him up and fill the garbage bags with which to get rid of the body. The brutal manner of the murder had initially led the investigation in directions other than the internal issue of the family, and relationships with loan sharks or organized crime had not been ruled out.
The murder probably occurred between 21 and the 22 July, the fact that the first findings were made a week later prevented the Carabinieri from finding useful videos from the surveillance cameras in the area, which were deleted according to the law. The couple's two children, of Albanian origin but Italian citizens, interviewed several times by the investigators, never contradicted themselves, they proved to be reliable and totally unconnected to the facts, one lives in Masi (Padua) the other in Switzerland. They had been informed by their mother of yet another argument between her and their father, and that he would leave without a trace.
Article published on 29 August 2022 - 17:26