The bodies of a woman and her son were found dead in a house in Barletta. It was her husband and father who made the tragic discovery. Raffaella Angela Dimiccoli, 73, and her son Michele Caporusso, 53, had been dead for days in the villa in via Belle Arti. He with his face burned perhaps by a caustic substance, she lying on her side, in different rooms.
The autopsy will determine what happened.
The head of the family was away for at least five days in the countryside with his other son. He returned home late in the morning to find his wife dead, as well as their son, who was mute.
"I don't know what happened to my sister and my nephew," said Savino Dimiccoli, brother and uncle of the victims, pointing out that the 73-year-old had "needed help in running the house" but no one had ever done it.
The sister-in-law, Cristina Banescu, explained that she learned what happened from social media: «I hadn't heard from them for two years. He - he added referring to the victim's husband - was always in the countryside.
(Unioneonline/ss)