Impagnatiello trial, today: «I killed Giulia Tramontano. In my head a double reality: I have built a castle of lies”

«Did he kill Giulia and cause the termination of the pregnancy?».
«Yes», ​​is the first question Alessandro Impagnatiello answers. Today is the day of the examination of the accused, who is heard in court for the first time.

The hearing in the murder trial of Impagnatiello, accused of the murder of his partner, began at 10.05am Giulia Tramontano. Among the first to arrive were the victim’s mother and brother, together with some relatives. It is a very dramatic day for Giulia’s parents and sister and brother also because today is the first anniversary of the crime. In the classroom it is The victim’s sister, Chiara Tramontano, also arrives, accompanied by her boyfriend. Upon arrival, a long hug with his mother Loredana who was already in the front rows, behind the lawyer Giovanni Cacciapuoti.

The arrival of Impagnatiello

At the time of the defendant’s examination, Chiara Tramontano, Giulia’s sister, left the courtroom. However, his mother Loredana remained. Impagnatiello, wearing jeans and a white long-sleeved shirt, is now ready to answer the prosecutors’ questions Letizia Mannella and Alessia Menegazzo.

“Yes, I intend to answer.” Thus begins the exam in Alessandro Impagnatiello’s classroom. The public prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo asked the barman if he intended to confirm what had already been admitted in the two interrogations before the prosecutor and the investigating judge. «This process is helping me a lot to put together some pieces that were very confusing in my head – explained the defendant -. I want to express the real truth. Today I am more lucid and aware. I confirm the general data, there were certainly some inconsistencies.”
Then, the prosecutor’s questions:
«Did he kill Giulia and cause the termination of the pregnancy?».
“Yes”.
“Did he hide a body?”.
“Yes”.
“When did he kill her?”
«On the evening of May 27th», replied Impagnatiello.
Calm, with a firm voice, without tears, the barman is answering the questions and reconstructing the beginning of the relationship with the victim.

«I never made Giulia believe she was crazy, I have built an infinite castle of lies – said Impagnatiello, answering the prosecutors’ questions in court -. A sea of ​​lies in which I myself drowned.”

Impagnatiello stated that when he learned of Giulia’s pregnancy there was “a swing of emotions” in him. The barman is retracing the two versions referring to the lover and his partner regarding the double pregnancy. “I told her lover that I was still in contact with Giulia to support her during the pregnancy, which was difficult on both a physical and mental level.” The barman had told the woman that he was “not the father of the child Giulia was expecting”. The victim’s mother is listening to the words of the self-confessed murderer of her daughter from the second bench of the courtroom. Before her eyes a photo of Giulia, leaning on a bottle of water on the counter. Impagnatiello also recounted when he created the fake DNA test to show to his lover: “I took it from the Internet and changed the header.” On several occasions the barman explained that he “continued to feed this double reality in my head, this fake reality”.

Impagnatiello explained that on the day of the crime, when Giulia gave him an appointment at the Armani Caffè for the threesome meeting with her lover, he asked to postpone it until Sunday, because he didn’t want all this to happen while he was working: «I didn’t want to be humiliated, I cared about my image in my workplace. At work I had a certain responsibility with the staff, I particularly cared about the image and esteem that my colleagues had for me. It was the place where I spent most of my time.”

As for the phases of the crime after returning home to wait for Giulia to return after the meeting with her lover, he told Impagnatiello that he had smoked cannabinoids: «I was walking around the house, I went down to walk, I smoked, I think I was took a shower. I tried to eat but couldn’t. I was doing everything and doing nothing. I was very agitated by the trauma of my destroyed life, my destroyed image, my family, everyone». When prosecutor Menegazzo asked if he had moved the furniture while waiting for Giulia to return home, he replied that “he hadn’t done so”. The investigators’ reference is linked to the absence of stains on the carpet and sofa at home.

The beginning of the process

The trial began with the testimony of lieutenant Giulio Buttarelli who coordinates the homicide team of the provincial command of the Carabinieri of Milan. It is entrusted to him the task of reconstructing in detail all the steps of the investigations. The deputy Letizia Mannella and the prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo asked for an account of the searches carried out by Impagnatiello on the web: «ammonia fetus», «kill fetus», «pregnant mouse poison» which coincide with the period in which Giulia Tramontano suffered stomach problems. On January 7, 2023 Impagnatiello researched “how much rat poison needed to kill a person”. But there are question strings such as “heat poison loses effectiveness”, these are research – explained Lieutenant Buttarelli – “carried out to understand if the poison was heat-sensitive or heat-resistant to understand how to administer it”.

In those days the accused also searches information on the “taste and smell” of the poison and on March 5 on “homemade deadly poisons” which leads him to consult a page on the most famous “five famous lethal poisons”.

While the search for Giulia Tramontano was underway in Senago, Impagnatiello was trying to simulate that Giulia was still alive. In particular he writes on Google «Whatsapp scheduled sending» to try to send post-dated messages. And there is also research related to «what are the odors that can bother dogs»»in the hope – according to the investigators – that her partner’s body could not be found.

According to the testimony of Lieutenant Buttarelli, an expert in Bloodstain pattern analysis (Bpa), the study of bloodstains at the crime scene, in the room of the apartment where Giulia was killed, there were no traces of blood in some “anomalous” points. «The carpet had been lifted, the sofa covered by something we don’t know. But there are no indirect blood splashes on the walls, which certainly would have been seen given the 37 stab wounds.” For this reason, the policeman explained, it is possible that «Giulia’s body was covered with a pillow or a towel» to minimize the presence of blood on the blade of the knife used to hit it so as not to cause splashes on the walls.

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May 27, 2024 (modified May 27, 2024 | 12:24)

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