Overview
- Carabinieri found Pasquale Carlomagno and Maria Messenio dead by hanging at their Anguillara home, with authorities treating the case as an apparent double suicide and ordering autopsies.
- Some outlets report the couple left a note, with one account placing it at their other son’s home in Rome, while investigations continue into the circumstances of their deaths.
- Claudio Agostino Carlomagno remains in custody on charges of femicide and concealment of a corpse after admitting elements of the disposal and claiming a 6:40 a.m. killing in the bathroom.
- Autopsy findings count 23 stab wounds, near-total blood loss, burns and post‑mortem injuries, while luminol traces and made beds point to a likely night killing in a room other than the bathroom.
- Searches for a bilama knife in a canal along the Braccianense Claudia have not found the weapon, and investigators are analyzing CCTV, GPS data and the suspect’s phone as they examine potential assistance, including a nine‑minute visit by his father and an unidentified person seen with him at 14:17 on January 9.