A turning point in the investigation into the murder of Maria Luigia Borrelli, the 42-year-old originally from Iglesias, a nurse by day and a prostitute by night, massacred on September 5, 1995, in vico Indoratori in Genoa, in the basement she used to prostitute herself. The investigators of the Flying Squad and the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by deputy prosecutor Patrizia Petruzziello, this morning executed a search warrant against a 60-year-old Genoese man, an employee of a body shop.
The investigators reached the man, who has gambling addiction problems and is said to have incurred many debts over the course of his life, thanks to various elements, including DNA left at the crime scene. He is accused of murder and robbery: according to the charges, he killed “Antonella” - as Borrelli called himself in his second life - after having had sexual intercourse, stealing her wallet with the day's takings.
Suspicions about the head physician
Two years ago, there was the latest twist in the cold case when a superwitness told investigators that her mother - a former nurse like Borrelli - had confided in her that she had seen a head physician at San Martino, a few days after the murder, with scratches on his face and neck. The doctor had died in 2021. However, DNA comparison - done through some of the man's relatives - in July of last year had given a negative result. The same negative result, in the past, had led to the exoneration of a long series of suspects.
Who was Maria Luigia Borrelli?
Born in Iglesias in 1953, Borrellì moved to Genoa in the late 1970s, where she found work as a nurse at the San Martino hospital. Here she met the warehouse worker Mario Arnaldo Andreini and married him. The marriage produced two children. Towards the end of the 1980s, Andreini bought a bar. But, not having the money to renovate it, it ended up in the hands of loan sharks and died in 1990, leaving Borrelli with a debt of 250 million lire.
Pressured by loan sharks, she quit the hospital and became Antonella. She rented a studio apartment in the historic center and began prostituting herself. On September 6, 1995, her daughter, not seeing her return home, raised the alarm. Maria Luigia Borrelli was in the studio apartment, naked from the waist up and with the tip of an electric drill stuck in her throat. The investigations, up to this point, had led nowhere.
(Online Union)
