There is a wait for the outcome of the autopsy on the body of Concetta Reale, the elderly woman from Zerfaliu found lifeless two days ago in a canal . The medical examiner's investigations are underway and the causes of the 84-year-old's death should be clarified in the next few hours.
The woman was last seen on Monday 25 March: she was sitting on a bench near the church, wearing dark trousers and a beige sweater. She would have walked away leaving the front door open, her cell phone and jacket on the table. Circumstances that immediately made the family friend who had been taking care of the old woman for some time suspicious: when he didn't find her at home the next day, he raised the alarm. The prefecture immediately activated the search plan for missing people: for a week firefighters, carabinieri, civil protection and volunteers searched for her in the countryside, drones and molecular dogs were used but there was no trace of the woman. Until two days ago when some workers from the Reclamation Consortium found the body in a canal on the outskirts of Zeddiani: the woman was wearing the same clothes, the body was already saponified.
Once the body was recovered, the prosecutor ordered an autopsy to shed full light on the old woman's end. In fact, if the most plausible hypothesis at the moment seems to be that of an accident (Concetta Reale would have fallen into the canal), the carabinieri are not leaving out any leads. In fact, several gray areas remain in the matter and the investigations, starting with the autopsy, will be decisive.
