Ciro Rapuano's murder: a video nails Lucia Salemme

Naples - "You bastard, you're finally dead." These are the words of Lucia Salemme, the woman who stabbed her husband, Ciro Rapuano, 107 times.

To report them in front of the cameras of Life live She is the daughter of the Rapuanos who was at home with her parents on the night of the murder.

The story of the girl who always said she didn't hear her mother kill her father and that she only got up when the crime had already taken place, sheds new light on the murderer's version, Lucia Salemme, now in prison.

Corroborating the premeditation version is a video from the Rapuano home's surveillance camera. Two minutes of recording would give investigators a clearer picture of what happened in the house on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the Forcella neighborhood, on the night of September 4th.

The images, broadcast on the well-known television programme, were recorded at 2,18 that night.

 Images broadcast from "La vita in diretta"

The security camera captures the living room of the home as a woman who appears to be Lucia Salemme crosses the room and goes into the kitchen with something in her hand. In the background, noises can be heard as if the woman is searching for something in the drawers or cabinets.

After about a minute and a half, the same woman is seen crawling across the camera's frame. Then it goes dark, and the camera cuts out. And the truth about the Forcella crime remains obscured. There's no evidence of what's happening in that house.

From here on, the hypotheses begin, cross-referencing the versions of the two women at the center of the story. Mother and daughter are the only ones who can know the truth.

With the cameras in the dark, Lucia Salemme—a confessed criminal who claims she defended herself against a violent husband ready to kill her—may have had everything she needed to stab Ciro Rapuano to death in his sleep with 107 wounds.

It's 2:20 a.m. The camera stops recording and the massacre begins.

Did Lucia Salemme take the knives from her kitchen? If so, the version that Ciro Rapuano that he slept with two knives under his pillow and that he was the first to stab his wife in the arm to kill her, would only be a staging to try to ease the woman's position with regard to justice and the charge of voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation.

The Rapuanos' daughter, the one who, by being in the room next to her parents, could have somehow intervened and prevented her father's death or at least stopped the massacre, or (if Salemme's version of self-defense was true) prevented the argument between her parents from turning into a tragedy, tells, in front of the cameras, a version in which she exonerates herself but which contains some inconsistencies.

The girl says: "My mom planned it all and doesn't want to say it. My dad was asleep; she's the one who wants to play the victim. If they were arguing, it was impossible not to hear them. I heard 'cic ciac' as if she were walking through a puddle."

So how is it possible to hear such a faint, yet strange, noise as a 'click, click' and not perceive the rattles of a man who, though asleep, was stabbed 107 times with two different knives?

Is it possible that Ciro Rapuano was stunned even before being killed?

The daughter adds details that heavily incriminate her mother: "She said (her mother, ed.) 'Bastard, you're finally dead.' She screamed 'I did it, I did it.'" And finally, the woman adds another important detail: "My mother had two knives: one thin, the other double."

It remains to be seen what happened in the house on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano from the moment of the killing—around 2,20:XNUMX a.m.—until emergency services and the police were called.

At that time, there were two women in the house—Lucia Salemme and her daughter—a small child, the Rapuanos' granddaughter, and the victim lying supine on the bed in a pool of blood.

At that point, the daughter is presumably awake, fully awake, and has left her room. At that moment, the girl witnesses a shocking scene: her mother, almost triumphant (in her words), verbally abusing ("Bastard, you're finally dead") her father, who is being stabbed to death.

"Afterward, she felt satisfied. I will never forget her eyes, her face, and her gestures," her daughter says to the cameras. So what did she do? What did she say to her mother? And why did 30 interminable minutes pass before that phone call was made in which Lucia Salemme uttered the fateful words: "Come immediately, I killed my husband"?