• Lecce, stabbed to death with referee girlfriend Daniele de Santis

  • Double murder in Lecce, a man and a woman killed

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24 September 2020The autopsy started yesterday on the bodies of Daniele De Santis and his girlfriend Eleonora Manta, battered by stabbing Sunday evening in Lecce, will continue today.

The long work carried out yesterday by the coroner Roberto Vaglio, which lasted more than five hours, has meanwhile confirmed that the killer attacked the two bodies with a stabbing weapon, inflicting serious wounds that were fatal.

The large patches of blood scattered on the stairs of the condominium in Via Montello, where the engaged couples lived, were already an eloquent sign of how violent and insistent the action of the author of the double murder had been.



 Confirmations in this sense have therefore come from the first phase of the autopsy examination carried out yesterday in the morgue of the Vito Fazzi hospital in Lecce.

From today's necropsy, other important data could emerge to outline a more precise picture of what happened on Monday evening in the building in via Montello.

In the city, but especially in the neighborhood where the bloody crime took place, not far from the center and the train station, a climate of apprehension has spread as we wait for the killer to be identified and arrested.



Investigating sources have denied the rumors leaked yesterday afternoon about a suspect already questioned, other sources close to the investigation speak with insistence of a person who would be the center of attention of investigators.

It is known that in addition to listening to witnesses, searches and acquisitions of material took place yesterday, and that the investigative activity was particularly intense in one of the towns in the province of Lecce, Aradeo.

One of the traces followed is that of that name, 'Andrea', shouted by Eleonora before becoming killed.

Witnesses told investigators that they heard her shout "Andrea no, Andrea" before the blows killed both of them and then saw a man flee with a knife.