In the village they hadn't seen Rosanna Pilloni for a long time. She no longer went to mass on Sundays and no one showed up at the pharmacy to pick up the medicines she usually took. Too many strange things about the fate of the seventy-eight-year-old from Sarroch, which led to the tip-off to the police and the subsequent search with the macabre discovery: the woman had been dead for some time and her son, Sandro Mulas, 54, had hidden the body in the chest freezer of the house in order to continue collecting his pension . For now , only one complaint has been filed against him, accusing him of aggravated fraud against the State and concealment of a body. But we are waiting for the results of the autopsy, ordered by the magistrate on duty, to trace the causes of death: natural? Or violent?
While we wait for the results of the tests, which will also clarify how long the woman's body had been in the freezer, the story of a disturbing afternoon remains.
The Carabinieri entered to search the house where the two lived, on Via Piemonte, the man let them do it, without asking anything and remaining silent. The soldiers combed through the house, deciding to also open the freezer located on the ground floor. And it is here that Mulas had hidden his mother's body, completely covered in ice. Only at that moment did the man stammer a few sentences to justify himself, saying that his mother had died of natural causes, but that he did not remember exactly when the death occurred: "It was the Covid period, one January," were his only statements. He himself allegedly told the soldiers that he had not reported his mother's death in order to continue collecting the woman's minimum pension, the family's only income.
In Sarroch, after the discovery of the body, the coroner Roberto Demontis and the survey team of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Cagliari arrived. The specialists of the Arma carried out the checks inside the house to then allow the transfer of the body to the Brotzu hospital, where Demontis himself will perform the autopsy no earlier than Friday.
From what we understand, the elderly woman had health problems for some time. The military are interviewing those who knew her, but also the family doctor and the pharmacist to understand when she was last seen. Mother and son lived in a situation of extreme hardship and economic difficulty: the woman had separated from her husband, with whom none of the family members had any more contact. The couple also had a second child, but he lives abroad and they have also lost contact with him.
(Online Union)