First he set fire to the car his wife was in and then, when she managed to get out of the burning vehicle covered in burns, he reached her, blocked her and killed her with his bare hands .
The incident occurred in the countryside of Gravina di Puglia (Bari) . A 65-year-old man, with a criminal record for crimes against property and the person, was arrested by the police on charges of premeditated and aggravated murder. His name is Giuseppe Lacarpia .
The victim, 60 years old, was called Maria Arcangela Turturo . The events occurred yesterday, the woman hospitalized before dying was able to tell what happened to her daughter and the police. " He wanted to kill me, he put his hands on my throat, he locked me in the burning car ", these were the last words spoken by the sixty-year-old.
According to an initial reconstruction by the police, the man set fire to his car, inside which was his wife, who however managed to escape from the car with partial burns on her body. He wanted to simulate an accident, but he failed. At that point he attacked her , immobilizing her in a supine position on the asphalt, crushing her with the weight of his body and his arms, and pressing a knee on her abdomen . And so he caused fractures to the sternum and ribs, causing compression of the heart and subsequent death, which occurred in hospital.
Some witnesses would have witnessed the incident, a girl who was with her boyfriend shot a video with her cell phone. They thought they were facing a car accident with a burning car and had stopped to call for help, instead they were witnessing a murder. The video shows the brutal attack with the man astride the woman, lying on the ground, who was raging on her.
As far as we know, the couple had been in crisis for some time.
(Unioneonline/L)
