FANO The horror took the form of two mangled bodies, husband and wife united by 50 years of marriage, who lived in a small apartment on the ground floor of Via Fanella, close to the central area of Fano. He, Giuseppe Ricci, known as Giorgio, 75 years old, battered on the bed in a supine position, with his head smashed by multiple blows inflicted with a blunt instrument (a hammer was found in the well of the house). She, Luisa Marconi, 70 years old, lies on the floor next to the bed, prone, dead, probably suffocated by strangulation. They were overwhelmed by a homicidal fury, which the elderly man tried to oppose as revealed by the signs of a struggle, a force that was lucid and ruthless in its own way which gave the couple no escape.
Suspicions
The alarm was raised after 8 by his son Luca, 49 years old, who lives on the upper floor and who called 112 declaring that he had found his parents’ bodies when he went down to their apartment. The man, who lives separated from his wife and is a metalworker who works at Profilglass, was treated all day in the Fano police station for questioning, under pressure for over 12 hours, because the major suspicions linked to an affair involving his debts and the recent loss at a judicial auction of his parents’ apartment given as collateral. The man, father of two boys aged 15 and 17, denied being involved but as the hours passed, he began to respond to the investigators’ questions with increasingly frequent “I don’t remember”. And in the end, late in the evening, he was interrogated at the public prosecutor’s office of Pesaro by prosecutor Maria Letizia Fucci and formally investigated for the murder of his parents, she a housewife and he retired for many years after having worked as a carpenter in the construction sector. nautical.
The reconstruction
The serenity in the area, quiet but marked by violent events that developed in the plots of family and neighborhood relationships (the murder of Rita Talamelli, suffering from mental disorders at the hands of her husband last November, in a nearby side street, and the massacre of the 4 members of the Diotallevi family shot by a neighbor, in the same street 32 years ago), failed yesterday morning when, after the alarm, the 118 ambulance, the carabinieri patrols and the of the state police and, finally, the fire brigade team. The latter did not have to force entry (the couple’s son has the key), but was called to check for a possible gas leak, a possible circumstance useful in focusing the first investigative hypotheses. However, no trace of the gas was found. At 6pm yesterday the firefighters were called again to via Fanella to recover the hammer in the cockpit, so that it could be verified with scientific tests whether that was the old man’s murder weapon, which the murderer then took he is freed.
The news of the brutal bloodbath came as a shock to the neighbors. Mirko Barduagni, a friend of Luca Ricci, who lives at the street number adjacent to 125B and 127 of via Fanella, which belong to the Ricci couple and their son, stated that he got up at 6.45 yesterday and had not noticed anything what was strange except for the absence in the garden of the elderly neighbors who he usually saw even early in the morning. The neighbor left the house at 7.45 and when he returned at 8.30 there was already a deployment of the police. The investigators, awaiting feedback on the temperature of the bodies from the medical examiner, yesterday afternoon did not exclude that the double murder could have occurred the previous evening, before the couple went to bed (the victims were found dressed and not in night clothes). .
Flying squad investigations
The investigations are conducted by the Pesaro flying squad and the Fano police station. The forensic police spent a long time yesterday morning in the Riccis’ apartment, then moved upstairs. There is an external connecting staircase that leads to a gallery. Mid-morning the magistrate on duty Maria Letizia Fucci arrived at the site of the double murder, who for a few months has also been acting chief prosecutor of the Republic of Pesaro (after the transfer of the former owner Tedeschini to the prosecutor’s office at the juvenile court of Ancona). Luca Ricci was accompanied out of the house by the police who took him to the police station. The prosecutor carried out a long inspection and then moved with the forensic officials to the upper floor in search of clues that could corroborate a developing accusation. The investigators also took evidence of Luca Ricci’s DNA in order to carry out scientific checks. The undertaker for the collection of the bodies arrived in via Fanella at 1.30 pm.
The couple, who had some ailments due to their age but overall enjoyed good health, harbored anxiety over the loss of the home in which they had spent a lifetime, raising two children (Luca has a sister). Just last Saturday his wife Luisa had confided to the parish priest the insecurity of that recent experience: the house had gone up for auction and there was a new owner. According to the neighbors, the couple were supposed to meet him just yesterday morning. The prospect, although not immediate, was that of eviction and the elderly couple was destabilized by it. The apartment had been pawned at the time by the spouses for a loan of 60 thousand euros requested by their son. The debt was linked to an artisan workshop that Luca Ricci intended to open, but the venture was not successful. This implication is considered by the central investigators in the investigations as the compromised economic relationship could have worn out the relationship between parents and child due to recriminations over the choices made and complaints about future housing uncertainty. To rebuild family relationships yesterday there was a coming and going in the police station of close relatives of the victims invited to tell what they know and not to talk to each other. Luca’s ex-wife lives in Fossombrone, while their teenage children shuttle between their two parents; the victims’ other daughter, Orietta, is married and also the mother of a girl. Last February, the three grandchildren celebrated their grandparents’ 50 years of love by posting a photograph of the happy moment on social media.
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