Overview
- Investigators say the 17-year-old admitted killing his 53-year-old aunt after a family dispute and described moving her body in a wheelbarrow to a nearby canal; prosecutors trace the killing to around Thursday, June 11.
- After three days of searches, firefighters recovered the victim’s body on Tuesday in the waters of the Lemene at Settesorelle and the medico legale reported multiple stab wounds and signs of attempted burning.
- Evidence cited by police includes surveillance footage of the suspect pushing a covered wheelbarrow, bloodstains in a shed at the family property, and the suspect’s account that he threw the knife and some clothing into the water, items that remain missing.
- The case file was transferred to the juvenile prosecutor in Trieste, the teen is held in a juvenile community in Treviso and authorities have formally charged him with voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse while seeking convalida of the arrest.
- Local schools and authorities have set up psychological support for students and residents, and investigators say the next key steps are recovering the weapon and clothes, completing forensic tests to establish premeditation or a raptus, and corroborating the alleged inheritance-related motive.