Benevento – It was an expected decision, almost inevitable after the horror of Paupisi. The Benevento Prosecutor's Office has ordered a psychiatric consultation for Salvatore Ocone, the 58-year-old accused of killing his wife, Elisa Polcino, 49, and their 15-year-old son, Cosimo, and leaving his other daughter, Antonia, 17, near death.
A family massacre that shocked the small town in Sannio and the entire country, becoming a case of enormous media outcry in just a few hours.
Ocone, a prisoner in Benevento, is currently being held in a cell with another inmate. His lawyer has begun gathering the medical records needed for the expert assessment, which will determine whether the man was mentally competent at the time of the massacre.
The psychiatric consultation will also serve to clarify the suspect's mental profile, described by those who knew him as a withdrawn, obsessive man with a difficult personality and increasingly frequent outbursts of anger.
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The tragedy unfolded in the family home in Paupisi, in the province of Benevento, where Ocone allegedly attacked his family with a knife in a yet-to-be-determined outburst of violence. After fatally stabbing his wife and son, he also attacked Antonia, his eldest daughter, who fought to the very end for her life.
The girl was transported in very serious condition to the Neuromed hospital in Pozzilli, Molise, where doctors have been seeing small but encouraging signs of improvement for several days.
The brutality of the act and the silence surrounding it have deeply shaken the local community, which continues to wonder how family tensions could have degenerated into such a tragedy. In the village, where the victims were well-known, the pain remains palpable.
With the decision of the Prosecutor's Office, the investigation now enters a new phase: the outcome of the psychiatric assessment will be decisive in defining the judicial profile of Salvatore Ocone and to understand whether behind that mad morning lay a mental breakdown or a lucid murderous determination. In any case, the "Paupisi massacre" remains an open wound, a symbol of a domestic evil that no one had been able to see in time.
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