The Palermo assize court, presided over by Sergio Gulotta, sentenced Luana Cammalleri and Pietro Ferrara to life imprisonment, the two lovers from Cerda (Palermo), accused of killing the woman’s husband, Carlo La Duca, and then killing made the body disappear and was never found. The two defendants were present at the reading of the verdict.
The defendants have always denied the accusations. The last person to see La Duca alive was Ferrara himself, while his wife, according to the investigators, followed him in her car to via Minutilla, in Cardillo where he was then killed.
The two were framed, among other things, by telephone wiretaps: immediately after the man’s disappearance, in fact, the carabinieri began to intercept the defendants, discovering not only that they were lovers, but that they would have agreed on the statements to be made to prosecutors and the media.
History
When justice began its journey to nail those guilty of the crime, Luana Cammalleri and Pietro Ferrara were defined by the news as the “diabolical lovers”. The Prosecutor’s Office had immediately requested a life sentence for them.
The incident dates back to January 2019. That would be the period in which the couple murdered her husband and then made his body disappear.
Charles the Duke. best friend of his wife’s lover, he had disappeared from Cerda and his body was never found. Already in the first stages of the trial of the two suspects, the deputy prosecutors Alfredo Gagliardi and Luisa Vittoria Campanile had asked for the maximum sentence for them.
Cammalleri and Ferrara, defended by lawyers Giovanni Marchese and Accursio Gagliano, have always rejected the accusations. According to the investigators, however, they killed La Duca and then disposed of his body.
Ferrara would be the last person to see the man alive, who then disappeared into thin air on January 31st five years ago. The woman instead followed him in her car to Cardillo, where the victim’s car was later found.
In 2019, at the time of the events, it was his wife and lover who went on television to launch desperate appeals to find the man who suddenly disappeared.
Over time, then, the investigators had discovered the relationship between the two and various wiretaps would have demonstrated their guilt. In one of these recordings, the voices of the woman and the man are heard referring to her husband as “the beast”.
And Cammalleri also said that she had dreamed of her husband and that he appeared to her “like a saint, like an angel who wants to make me feel guilty”.
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