He was returned in handcuffs yesterday afternoon to his parents' home on Via Ghibli, escorted by several prison officers, Carabinieri from the RIS (Italian Special Investigations Unit), and accompanied by defense attorney Luigi Sanna and his consultant Giovanni Bazzano. For the first time since his arrest for double homicide, Claudio Gulisano, 44, returned to the home of his father Luigi and mother Marisa Dessì, the 79- and 82-year-old couple found dead in the study of their home in Quartiere del Sole on December 5th. Following the conclusion of the investigation, the couple's youngest son vehemently rejects the expert's findings, which suggest homicide. And yesterday, at the defense's request, he returned to the home on Via Ghibli to allow investigators to obtain approximately 1,000 pages of the elderly couple's financial and health records.

The inspection

With Deputy Prosecutor Rossana Allieri's investigation now closed, Claudio Gulisano reiterates his innocence in the double homicide, reviving his initial theory that the parents died of natural causes (as initially confirmed by the medical examiner who intervened after the bodies were discovered): Marisa Dessì died of multi-organ failure (multiple organs failing) and Luigi Gulisano of a heart attack. To prove this, yesterday afternoon, he accompanied RIS investigators to the couple's home to retrieve all of their medical records. But that's not all. To try to disprove the financial motive hypothesized by the Prosecutor's Office, the 44-year-old also had the papers detailing the couple's financial situation removed from the home. The inspection concluded in the afternoon, after about an hour and a half, and the investigators ultimately left with approximately a thousand pages of documents.

Sole suspect

Claudio Gulisano remains the only suspect in the aggravated double homicide of his father and mother, but the Prosecutor's Office is also suspecting him of computer fraud for withdrawing €20,000 from their accounts using their online banking platform. After the preliminary investigation hearing before the preliminary hearing judge (GIP) of the Court, Ermengarda Ferrarese, was dismissed, the experts appointed by the judge, Rita Celli (a forensic pathologist at the University of Turin) and Claudio Medana (a toxicologist at the same university), concluded that death was definitively ruled out by sodium nitrite poisoning, as had been hypothesized by the public prosecutor's consultants Roberto Demontis (a forensic pathologist) and Giampiero Cortis (a toxicologist). According to the GIP's experts, the 44-year-old first suffocated his mother with the scarf she was wearing around her neck, then waited for his father's return and killed him as well through mechanical asphyxiation, possibly using a pillow to prevent him from breathing.