FANO (Ps) The horror took the form of two mangled bodies, a husband and wife married for 50 years, who lived in a small apartment on the ground floor of Via Fanella, near the central area of Fano, on the Pesaro coast. He was tortured 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 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.
Fano, husband and wife killed: they had to hand over the house that was auctioned off for their son’s debts. The man is under investigation
The alarm
The alarm was raised after 8 by the son, Luca Ricci, 49 years old, who lives on the upper floor and who called 112 declaring that he had found his parents’ bodies when going down to their apartment. The man, a metalworker separated from his wife and father of two boys aged 17 and 15, was held all day in the Fano police station to be interrogated, under pressure for over 12 hours, because the greater 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 denied being involved in the bloody crime but as the hours passed, he began to respond to the investigators’ questions more and more frequently with “I don’t remember”. After an exhausting day, in the evening he was formally investigated for the murder of his parents.
The investigations
The victims are Giuseppe Ricci, known as Giorgio, 75 years old, formerly a carpenter in the nautical sector and retired for many years, and Luisa Marconi, 70 years old, a housewife. His son Luca, 49 years old, works at Profilglass. The serenity in the area disappeared yesterday morning when, after the alarm, the 118 ambulance, the carabinieri and state police patrols and, finally, the fire brigade team arrived in rapid succession. At 6pm yesterday the firefighters were called again to recover the hammer from the cockpit, so that it could be verified whether that was the old man’s murder weapon, which the murderer then got rid of. 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. The magistrate on duty arrived at the site of the double murder mid-morning.
Luca Ricci was accompanied out of the house by the police who took him to the police station. 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). The apartment had been pawned at the time by the spouses for a loan of 60 thousand euros requested by their son, who would not have been able to repay it. From investigators we learn that the debt was linked to an artisan workshop that Luca Ricci intended to open, but the venture was not successful. This aspect is considered by investigators to be central to the investigation as the compromised economic relationship could have worn out the relationship between parents and child. Until a fit of anger that led the man to kill his parents.
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