Poisoned on the morning of December 4 , a day and a half before the bodies were discovered, by mixing sodium nitrite with sugar or milk , something they regularly used for breakfast.
This is how investigators killed Luigi Gulisano and Marisa Dessì, the couple aged 79 and 82 who were found lifeless in their apartment on Via Ghibli on the evening of December 5. She was still wearing her pyjamas.
Today is the hearing to validate the arrest of Claudio Gulisano, 44, son of the couple accused of double voluntary homicide . The investigating judge Ermengarda Ferrarese is also called to decide on the precautionary custody in prison. His interrogation was interrupted on Monday evening around 7:30 pm due to the serious evidence that emerged in the long face-to-face with the public prosecutor and the Carabinieri of the San Bartolomeo Station and the Operational Unit of the Company. The man was arrested and taken to the prison of Uta .
The motive would be financial. On December 4 and 5, there were withdrawals or transfers from the parents' accounts in favor of Claudio Gulisano for over 20 thousand euros . The 44-year-old, it seems, had gotten into debt due to the failure of a market that his father had given him . The two spouses, moreover, owned at least six apartments.
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La vera svolta è arrivata quando una testimone, vicina di casa dei coniugi Gulisano, ha raccontato di aver visto la mattina del 5 dicembre, il figlio minore Claudio nella zona dell’abitazione. Una frase che ha fatto vacillare l’alibi che, in precedenza, il 44enne aveva raccontato agli investigatori: sentito dai carabinieri avrebbe riferito di non passarci da un po’.