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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 26 October 2019The 23-year-old murderer of a 91-year-old elderly woman in Tolfa, a municipality on the border between the province of Rome, was identified, stopped and taken to jail in less than 24 hours by the Carabinieri of the Company of Civitavecchia and that of Viterbo, a few kilometers from Civitavecchia. The woman was punched for robbery in her home.

The information acquired within a few hours by the investigators led to a young Albanian citizen, who had been seen entering the victim's apartment building in Via Italia, the son of a domestic worker of the killed old woman, Diva Compagnucci, a teacher very well known in the area.

The facts
The Carabinieri of the Operational Unit and Radiomobile of the Company of Civitavecchia and of the Station of Tolfa intervened on Friday evening at about 10 pm in the old woman's house, after the daughters had found the body of the same in the house where she lived alone, and called the staff of 118 and the Carabinieri.

The scene appeared to the soldiers of the Arma left no doubt. The woman showed signs of violence that immediately suggested that it was a murder. Diva Compagnucci's face was completely swollen and the apartment was turned upside down. On the spot, therefore, the Riss intervened to carry out the scientific surveys in the apartment by the Carabinieri of the Investigation Unit of the Ostia Group.

The hunt for the killer immediately began with the acquisition of information from the neighbors as well as the verification of video surveillance systems near the apartment, arriving at the young Albanian who was tracked down inside his home.

During the search, some clothes with traces of blood were found while others were found inside the washing machine to be washed and the blood traces disappeared.

Having obtained sufficient evidence against him, the Public Prosecutor of Civitavecchia ordered the arrest of the young man who was taken to prison. The decree of detention against the Albanian citizen was issued at the end of the long interrogation that took place the same day in the barracks of the Carabinieri of Civitavecchia.