"Those weren't my real parents, I see ghosts."
Thus Salvatore Sedita, 34, confessed to the double murder of his parents at the end of a dramatic interrogation, which took place yesterday afternoon in Racalmuto, in the Agrigento area.
Giuseppe Sedita, 66, and Rosa Sardo, 62, were found lifeless yesterday afternoon, hugging each other in a lake of blood in the apartment they lived in, in one of the public housing buildings in via Rosario Livatino . They were murdered with a butcher's cleaver .
It was one of the daughters who found the body and alerted the carabinieri, also listened to for a long time by the investigators in the barracks: the woman went to the house because her parents did not answer the phone, she opened with her keys and found herself faced the macabre scene . The two lifeless bodies lay in the living room.
The 34-year-old confessed offender has repeated several times that those "were not his real parents", he said he used drugs, especially crack . For him, the prosecutor Gloria Andreoli and the adjunct Salvatore Vella have ordered the detention.
The man already yesterday afternoon, reached by telephone by the sister who had found the bodies, would have admitted his responsibilities. Blocked while he was wandering around the streets of the town on foot, he was taken to the barracks, where initially - before confessing - he said he saw "a man who entered the house with a mask and a machete" and that it was he who kill parents .
The bloodstained clothes and shoes he had been wearing at the time of the crime had been thrown in confusion in the bedroom. Traces of blood also in the bathroom because, this is the hypothesis of the prosecutors, the 34-year-old would have washed immediately after the double homicide.
Salvatore Sedita said he killed his parents on Monday and not yesterday, he was unable to say what he did after the double murder or how long he stayed at home .
The 34-year-old, transferred to prison, was then taken to the psychiatry department of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in Agrigento. Among other things, the doctors have to ascertain whether or not he was on drugs when he killed his parents.
« The social services of the Municipality of Racalmuto - explained the mayor Vincenzo Maniglia - had paid attention to this emergency . The mother had turned to the offices asking for a helping hand. The procedures were immediately initiated, but when official documents such as denunciations are requested in these cases, the family members themselves are a bit reluctant because a conflict arises. No one, even if it's their own children, thinks that situations like this can happen. Social services had suggested activating the correct procedures, but no one expected what happened. Not even the family members who have suffered this violence ».
(Unioneonline/L)
