"We knocked him out with a sleeping pill around 5:30 PM, but he didn't die until around 11 PM because we couldn't finish it." This is one of the excerpts from the confession that Lorena Venier, a 61-year-old nurse, gave to explain to investigators what happened that tragic July 25th in the house in Gemona, in the province of Udine, where she raised her son Alessandro, 35. She killed him—a son—and then dismembered him, along with her daughter-in-law.
"We decided to kill him by putting him to sleep: I emptied an entire blister pack of medicine into the lemonade, but it wasn't enough. At that point, I gave him two insulin injections, since he wouldn't fall asleep completely. I'd had them at home for about five years. I'd gotten them from where I work, because at the time I'd decided to use them to kill myself," Venier said during the hearing to validate his arrest before the investigating judge of the Udine Court. "Once the insulin had taken effect, we tried to suffocate him with a pillow, but Alessandro continued to fight back, even though he was weak ." "The plan didn't include cutting him up," she continued. "I did it myself, when we realized the body wouldn't fit in the bin where it was supposed to decompose, waiting to scatter the remains in the mountains. At that point, I used a hacksaw to cut him into three pieces, and Mailyn took him to the garage and covered him in lime ."
But why did they do it? "Mailyn had been asking me to kill my son Alessandro for months, ever since the day their daughter was born in January," Venier said. "Mailyn was violently beaten, insulted, and repeatedly threatened with death. My son downplayed her postpartum depression, and when I decided to report it, he punched me in the back. " "I'll take you to Colombia and drown you in the river, because no one's looking for you there," Alessandro Venier—according to his mother—allegedly told his partner Mailyn during one of their frequent domestic arguments, some of which were very recent. The threats and violence escalated: the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had not involved the police with detailed reports because they feared retaliation.
The plan they had been hatching for six months, ever since their granddaughter was born, was this: "Once Alessandro was killed and things had calmed down, Maylin would return to Colombia, to her family, with the baby. I would fly to visit them as soon as I retired." Contrary to previous speculation, the victim—who urgently needed to leave the country before a conviction for serious bodily harm in an extra-family context was enforced—would not have traveled with Maylin and her daughter, but alone.
The two women would have therefore accelerated their criminal plan to exploit this very circumstance: the man had announced to his friends that he was moving permanently to Colombia, so no one would have looked for him. His disappearance would not have aroused suspicion. The plan was planned down to the last detail. The grandmother also revealed a detail about the version of events they would have shared with her granddaughter once she grew up : "We would have said only good things about her father, we would have portrayed him in a good light, keeping the truth of the violence we suffered hidden forever."
Meanwhile, Maylin, Venier's partner, has been transferred to the reduced-custody institution for mothers on the island of Giudecca, in Venice. Her lawyers, Federica Tosel and Francesco De Carlo, hope to speak to her for the first time tomorrow and gather her version of events. So far, Maylin has not given any statement in the presence of a lawyer: every detail of the affair has been pieced together solely from her mother-in-law's words.
(Unioneonline)