"My wife was aggressive and authoritarian." Salvatore Ocone told investigators when asked why he killed his wife, Elisa Polcino, and also attacked her two children—one of whom died— yesterday morning in their home in Paupisi, in the Benevento area.
The man's words were reported by Benevento prosecutor Gianfranco Scarfò and investigators at a press conference. Regarding Ocone's health problems, investigators confirmed that he had been treated for chronic psychosis and had undergone compulsory medical treatment in 2011. "After this episode, there were no others," they said.
The prosecutor then reconstructed the massacre, which took place yesterday between 5 and 6 a.m. Salvatore Ocone, 58, killed his 49-year-old wife with a large rock and hit his children at home with the same object, then dragged them to his car and fled .
The Carabinieri found traces of blood in the family's home and near where the man's car was parked. "We immediately realized that the children had been shot in their home," said Colonel Calandro, commander of the Benevento Carabinieri. "Hence the rush to find the car in an attempt to save the children."
The man's car was later located by the Carabinieri helicopter in the Ferrazzano countryside, hidden in an olive grove. When the Carabinieri approached, Ocone offered no resistance, and the officers found the 15-year-old already dead and his 16-year-old daughter in critical condition .
Mario Ocone, 23, the couple's adult son, arrived late in the evening at the Paupisi villa , where he was greeted by the Carabinieri and his family. The young man, described as an introverted youth, had arrived from Rimini, where he had found work after graduating from the Castelvenere Hotel Management Institute.
Dazed and shocked, he immediately asked about the condition of his sister , the only survivor of the massacre. Mario, who has not given any statement, spent the night at his maternal grandfather's and aunt's house (his mother's sister, ed.) and today, early in the morning, he left for Pozzilli, in the province of Isernia, to visit his little sister, who is hospitalized in serious condition at the Neuromed hospital.
(Unioneonline)
