Everyone thought she was in the hospital or in a nursing home. That's why her absence had not alarmed either acquaintances or neighbors. Today, however, the macabre discovery by the police officers, who found the mummified body of the elderly woman in her bed . The woman's son, a 58-year-old nurse, was reported for concealment of a corpse and aggravated fraud. It happened in Comiso , in the Ragusa area.

The woman (96 years old) lived with her son, a 58-year-old nurse working at the local hospital. The police officers intervened following a report of a theft in a home. Once on site, they found the nurse, who denied the news. But the truth came out after an inspection of the house , with the discovery of the body in the bedroom , in an advanced state of decomposition .

The son reported that the body was that of his mother, who died in March 2023 of natural causes , elements confirmed by the coroner. The man, shortly before 2 pm, in front of the entrance of the building, claimed to have heard noises in the house and feared that there were thieves. The neighbors then called the police, but when the officers arrived at the building on Via Righi 3, they found the macabre surprise. The 58-year-old was reported to the Ragusa Prosecutor's Office for concealment of a corpse and aggravated fraud.

In the previous months, he had told his neighbors that his mother was in a nursing home or that she had been hospitalized. In recent months, as reported by some witnesses, he had smelled bad odors, later attributed to the chemical toilets of a construction company installed right in the area. Instead, on the ground floor of the house, in the corner bedroom of the building, there was the body.

(Unioneonline/vf)