A drill as a murder weapon, traces of DNA that exonerate all the suspects, a television broadcast dedicated to that murder that brings back in the mind of a woman some revelations her mother had about the case. There is a journalist on TV and the woman turns to him to indicate a lead and try to solve a cold case: that of the "crime of the drill" .
Maria Luigia Borrelli, born in Iglesias but moved to Genoa when she was young, was murdered on 5 September 1995 in the Ligurian city, in a low street in vico Indoratori where she prostituted herself under the name of Antonella .
A woman, then a child, daughter of a friend of the victim, revealed to Il Secolo XIX journalist Marco Menduni some confidences received from her mother, who was no longer alive . Maria Luigia Borrelli may have been killed by a head physician of a city hospital with whom she had an affair and whom she had blackmailed .
Menduni put the woman in touch with the Genoa prosecutor's office and the case returned to the desk of deputy prosecutor Patrizia Petruzziello . The witness has already been heard by the police, she said that her mother confided to her that she had strong suspicions about a primary care physician who died in recent years.
The man had met her in the ward where she worked as a nurse before turning to elderly care. The witness recounted that the mother told her that the chief physician in the days after the murder showed up at work with a marked face, so much so that someone told him if he had fought with the cat. Not only that, the woman revealed to her daughter that there could be blackmail by Borrelli behind the murder .
The killer's DNA was found by investigators at the time at the crime scene, but did not match the suspects. Indeed, he cleared one of them, when it was already too late: shortly before the results arrived, overwhelmed by the shame of the suspects, the bricklayer Ottavio Salis had killed himself by jumping from the elevated road . It was his drill that he used to kill, but the tool was there because he was refurbishing the bass.
Then the investigators targeted a gang of loan sharks, a regular customer, a man who showed up in a bloodied hotel in the area, a Moroccan murderer in Turin. But the DNA cleared them all. Now it starts again.
THE STORY OF MARIA LUIGIA BORRELLI
Born in Iglesias in 1953, she moved to Genoa at the end of the 70s, where she found work as a nurse at the San Martino hospital. Here he met the warehouseman Mario Arnaldo Andreini, the two got married and gave birth to two children, Roberto and Francesca.
Towards the end of the 80s he, tired of life as a warehouse worker, bought a bar. But, not having the money to renovate it, it ends up in the hands of usurers and dies in 1990, leaving Luigia with a debt of 250 million lire .
Pressed by usurers, she quits the hospital and becomes Antonella. She rents a studio flat in the historic center and starts prostituting herself . The children know that she works as a home nurse for Mrs. Adriana Fravega, actually an elderly ex-prostitute who owns the place she is renting. On September 6, 1995, her daughter Francesca, not seeing her come home, calls Adriana's house, the latter calls the carabinieri who go to the studio flat.
The scene they are faced with is chilling: Maria Luigia Borrelli lies on the ground in a lake of blood, naked from the waist up and with the tip of an electric drill stuck in her throat . The investigations begin, which over the years will lead to various suspects, but to no truth. Is it the right time?
(Unioneonline/L)
