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Porta Capuana Murder: The killer gives in to the investigating judge: "Yes, I shot Grivano."

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The suspect has given spontaneous statements. His wife, Immacolata Brunetti, also remains in jail, charged with complicity in the crime. The hunt is underway for the murder weapon and for any accomplices who may have aided the couple.
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In the photo the victim Alessandro Grivano and the crime couple, Ern esto maddaloni and Immacolata Eliana Brunetti
In the photo, the victim Alessandro Grivano and the crime couple, Ernesto Maddaloni and Immacolata Eliana Brunetti
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Naples – He has chosen to make partial admissions, but has postponed a detailed reconstruction of the facts until a face-to-face meeting with the prosecution. Ernesto Maddaloni, 32, confessed before Naples Court Judge Carla Sarno to being the perpetrator of the murder of Alessandro Grivano, the boy his age killed with a gunshot to the back of the head between July 3rd and 4th at Porta Capuana, while riding his scooter.

At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing in Poggioreale prison, the judge confirmed the arrest warrant issued by Deputy Prosecutor Stella Castaldo, ordering the thirty-two-year-old's pre-trial detention. Maddaloni—assisted by criminal lawyers Simone Grossi and Leopoldo Perone—made brief spontaneous statements ("Yes, I shot him"), reserving, however, the right to explain the exact circumstances and motive next Monday, during an interrogation already scheduled before the public prosecutor in charge of the case.

The passionate motive and the end of that relationship

Behind the violent execution at Porta Capuana, according to the reconstruction by the Naples Flying Squad, led by Giovanni Leuci, looms the shadow of a passionate motive. The victim, Alessandro Grivano, is believed to have had a romantic relationship, lasting approximately two years and ending over a year ago, with Immacolata Eliana Brunetti (30), Maddaloni's wife.

A story that's over, but evidently never quite settled for the thirty-two-year-old, who apparently planned the deadly ambush to exact his revenge. The woman is also currently in custody, charged with complicity in voluntary homicide: the Prosecutor's Office suspects she played an active role in planning the crime or in luring the victim into the Porta Capuana trap.

The hasty escape to Rome and the abandonment of her children

The pieces of evidence pieced together by the Flying Squad investigators outline a desperate and improvised escape, undertaken just minutes after the shots were fired. Before disappearing, the couple rushed home to "settle" their minor children: one was entrusted to a brother-in-law in Maddaloni, the other was left with the suspect's father. It was at the father's home that the killer abandoned his iPhone, attempting to avoid being located by cell towers.

Soon afterward, the husband and wife boarded a bus headed for Rome, leaving at night and without any luggage. Their brief absence ended three days ago when the woman, evidently overwhelmed by the weight of her situation, went first to the Naples Police Headquarters, closely followed by her husband.

The knots to be untied: the search for the gun and the accomplices

Despite Maddaloni's partial confession, the investigation is far from over. Flying Squad officers are continuing to scrutinize the private lives of the victim and the two suspects to find objective corroboration of their initial admissions.

Prosecutors are seeking answers to two main questions: where the murder weapon—still unaccounted for—ended up, and how Maddaloni obtained it. Furthermore, detectives suspect the couple did not act entirely alone. Investigators are also scrutinizing the killer's family network: they are digging to determine whether anyone actively helped Maddaloni plan the murder, hide the gun, or organize the logistics of his hasty escape to the capital. Important answers in this regard could arrive as early as Monday, when the suspect will appear before the prosecutor again.

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I read the article carefully, but it doesn't seem entirely clear to me. There are several obscure points and no concrete evidence. The story of the children, the escape, and the gun seem hastily and confusingly told. Let's hope the magistrates will investigate everything calmly and with more objective evidence.

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