Quarto Grado, the investigative program that airs every Friday evening, has exclusively broadcast the story of Filippo Turetta, Giulia Cecchettin’s murderer. In the Verona prison, during the interrogation before the Venice public prosecutor Andrea Petroni, the young man reconstructed the last evening spent with his ex-girlfriend: first shopping, then dinner in a shopping center in Marghera, then the trip returning with the car which stopped in a car park 150 meters from Giulia’s house. “I wanted to give her a gift, a little monster monkey. I had a backpack with me that contained other gifts: another stuffed monkey, a small lamp, a children’s illustration book. She refused to take it. We started arguing She told me I was too dependent, too clingy to her,” the boy said. And it was precisely on that children’s book, found near Giulia’s body, that Roberta Bruzzone focused.
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“Even monsters brush their teeth”: this is the title of the children’s book that was found next to the body of the 22-year-old from Veneto who first disappeared and then was found dead in a forest in November 2023. What is the meaning? What is the value of volume? The criminologist shed light on this detail. “It’s a signature in all respects. Giulia loved making illustrations for children’s books. It’s a way of saying ‘See the end of you and your dream,'” he said, also recalling how much Filippo Turetta was envious of the successes of Ex Girlfriend. On the title and the presence in it of the word “monster”, the expert continued: “It is an evocative book. He had recognized this anger that he was starting to feel as a distorted core of himself. The book is a way to say ‘I’m not just going to kill you, I’m going to destroy everything that represented you.” The planning of the crime was defined as “structured” by Bruzzone. “Be careful of emotional blackmail. Don’t give in and don’t stay in the relationship”: was the final appeal to the public.
