Killed by 23 stab wounds, 19 of which were to the neck and face. This is what emerges from the initial autopsy results performed on the body of Federica Torzullo, the woman killed by her husband Claudio Carlomagno, who then buried her in a reed bed behind his farm in Anguillara. The fatal blow was reportedly to the right side of the neck , and the woman attempted to defend herself during the violent attack, as confirmed by at least four stab wounds .
Carlomagno was then charged with the new crime of femicide , with the prosecutors modifying the case in light of the investigative findings, and he is also under investigation for concealing a corpse.
According to the reconstruction so far, after killing his wife, Claudio Agostino Carlomagno attempted to set fire to and dismember the body, to "prevent its identification." Indeed, the body suffered severe burns and an amputated leg. This terrible detail emerged from the arrest warrant issued against the man, accused of a murder that investigators have no hesitation in describing as "particularly ferocious." Furthermore, according to the Civitavecchia prosecutors, Carlomagno was ready to flee and disappear. The warrant also explains that traces were found on his work clothes, found inside a dryer, "a sign that they had been washed."
It is also suspected that he used his wife's cell phone after the murder to throw investigators off the scent . The last text message exchange between Federica and her mother dates back to the morning of Friday, January 9th, between 7:55 and 8:05 a.m., when the forty-one-year-old is believed to have already died. During the same time frame, her husband was photographed leaving the house in his car, and both cell phones were later located near the family business, which he owns, where her body was found yesterday in a hole dug with a mechanical tool and covered by brambles.
After his first night in prison, the man chose to remain silent. He exercised his right to remain silent before the prosecutor in charge of the investigation and the prosecutor Alberto Liguori, who went to the Civitavecchia prison in the early afternoon to question him in the presence of his lawyer. Investigators aimed to obtain confessions from him regarding the events that occurred on the night of January 8th and 9th in the house where he lived with Federica and their 10-year-old child. It is not excluded that Federica was shot inside the walk-in closet in the bedroom and then killed while trying to reach the front door . Experts from the RIS (Italian Special Investigative Unit) and the Carabinieri Investigative Unit in Ostia used luminol to identify traces of blood on the floor at the entrance to the house and inside the closet.
(Unioneonline/D)
