• Kindergarten teacher killed in Valenza, the arrested confesses: passionate crime
  • Woman found dead at home in Alexandria, head injuries

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 25 January 2020 The Valenza case was resolved in a few hours by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Operational Department of the provincial command and of the Alessandria Company. The murderer, Michele V., confessed to the murder of Ambra Pregnolato but before reaching the detention, the investigators of the Arma had already collected multiple, unique and concordant elements of responsibility.

Michele V., 46, after killing his teacher friend tried to jump under a train from an Alexandria bridge. The man had fallen in love with the victim for about a year and a half, but after the woman refused to leave her husband to go and live with him, she lost her head. He hit her with a hammer and then tried to take his own life.

The teacher was found dead on January 24 in her home in Valenza, in the province of Alessandria by her husband, a goldsmith, who discovered the corpse of the woman returning home for the lunch break. Michele was known by the victim's family. He was heard until late at night on the day of the crime by the investigators, after he was found in the afternoon, injured, on the railroad tracks, not far from the Titian bridge, where he felt pressed by the Carabinieri who were searching the home of Valenza in whom he lived with his father and sister, had tried to commit suicide.

Once rescued and taken to the hospital in Alexandria, assisted by an office lawyer, he confessed everything. He is in hospital in a state of detention monitored by the Carabinieri.

Dynamics of the murder
The 46-year-old said he had entered into a romantic relationship with the victim for about a year and a half. Amber would have expressed the intention of wanting to separate from her husband to go and live with her lover, but then she had second thoughts, communicating to the murderer the decision to end the relationship.

The conversation between the two took place on the morning of January 24, when the man had gone to find the victim at home knowing she was alone. Michele V. said he had lost his mind. He pulled a hammer from his backpack - used to solve a mechanical bicycle problem - and repeatedly and violently hit the woman in the head, without stopping despite the victim's screams.

Realizing what he had done, he tried to clean up and change clothes with those of the woman's husband, without succeeding. He then left the house, wore a pair of clean shoes found on the doormat of a seventh-floor house and fled. Once he got home, the murderer took off his blood-soaked clothes and after washing and cleaning he went out to reach the nearby tributary of the Po, where he threw the hammer used to hit the teacher and the clothes soiled with blood.