Life imprisonment is the sentence pronounced a few moments ago by the Assize Court of Nuoro against Giuseppe and Maoro Contena, 52-year-old twins from Orune , accused of the murder of their pasture neighbor Mauro Antonio Carai , 74, murdered with 35 stab wounds at “Su Cumonale 'e susu”, in the countryside of Orune, a few meters away from the state road 389.
The murder occurred on the evening of August 27, 2021 , between 8.30 pm and 9 pm. The same time in which the Orune cameras filmed the passage of the Fiat Doblò car of the twins Giuseppe and Maoro Contena, at around 8.59 pm , which according to the investigators is compatible with what is necessary to travel by car the stretch of road that leads from the town to the roadway and the road where Carai was killed.
In the following days , the victim's DNA and blood were found in the Doblò and the Panda, the cars of the two twins, defended by Luigi Esposito and the Roman lawyers Stefano Zoccano and Nicola Caricaterra. Traces on the passenger seat and mat as well as on the door. Trials against them never passed .
The Contena twins remained untraceable for several days, after a search by the Nuoro carabinieri, who had been on their trail since 1 September, coordinated in the investigation by prosecutor Riccardo Belfiori. Before reappearing in the barracks accompanied by their lawyer, but then they remained free because there was no admission of guilt. There was still no precautionary measure against them . Precautionary measure that arrived the following December. Today, the condemnation. Listening to the sentence in Nuoro were only the victim's family members, who were civil parties with the lawyers Pasquale Ramazzotti and Lorenzo Soro with their daughters bursting into tears.
