Overview
- Claudio Agostino Carlomagno told the judge he killed Federica Torzullo to avoid losing custody of their son, claiming a 45‑minute attack at home using a kitchen knife and later destroying her phone after sending messages to her mother.
- Magistrates validated his detention on charges of femminicidio and concealment of a corpse, noting a risk of evidence tampering and describing his account as incomplete.
- Searches are underway for the knife Carlomagno says he discarded in a waterway near Osteria Nuova, while investigators also seek the victim’s missing phone.
- Autopsy findings report 23 stab wounds, burns, an amputated left leg and crushing injuries consistent with an excavator used to bury the body near his company’s land in Anguillara Sabazia.
- Detectives have re‑interviewed his parents as they examine unresolved timeline points, including a nine‑minute stop by his father near the couple’s home and an unidentified person seen later that day.