Serena Mollicone

  • Mollicone crime, the turning point: asked the trial for five people
  • Mollicone murder: acts confirm, suspicions about Mottola
  • Mollicone murder, there is a fifth suspect: he is also a carabiniere
  • Mollicone murder: there is a fourth suspect, he is a carabiniere
  • Cold case: the Cassino public prosecutor reopens investigations into the death of Serena Mollicone
  • Murder of Arce, towards the exhumation of the corpse of Serena Mollicone. Gip: "Non-peregrine hypothesis"

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January 15, 2020 The carabinieri weapon and the Ministry of Defense will be a civil party in the possible trial on the murder of Serena Mollicone, the 18-year-old student of Arce found killed in the first days of June 2001 in a
Anitrella grove, in the province of Frosinone.

As in the Cucchi process
It will take another two months to find out if the five suspects will be indicted on the heavy charge of being involved in the death of the student of Arce. If you go to trial, as happened for the death of Stefano Cucchi, the Carabinieri and the Ministry of Defense will become a civil party. This was decided by the judge for the preliminary hearing of the Court of Cassino, Domenico Di Croce, who today expressed himself only on the constitution of a civil party.

The fate of the carabinieri investigated
It could be March when the fate of Marshal Franco Mottola, former commander of the Carabinieri station in Arce, his wife Anna Maria, his son Marco, Marshal Vincenzo Quatrale, and the appointed Francesco Suprano will be known. Mottola, his relatives and Quatrale are accused of murder competition. For Quatrale, the instigation to commit suicide of the sergeant Santino Tuzi is also hypothesized, while the defendant Francesco Suprano must respond favorably.

Defense of Marshal Mottola
"We have nothing to do with this crime and we have the evidence to prove it in the courtroom. We hope that the real culprits will be identified", reiterated a few days ago Marshal Mottola and his family, assisted by the lawyer Francesco Maria Germani.

The civil parties
Today's hearing was therefore dedicated to the constitution of the civil parties, including first of all that of Serena's father, Guglielmo, still serious after the illness that struck him before Christmas. The 71-year-old is still hospitalized in resuscitation in Frosinone. To represent him the lawyer Dario De Santis.

The reconstruction of the crime
For the Prosecutor of Cassino the young Serena died after being pushed against a door inside the barracks of the Carabinieri of Arce perhaps after a quarrel with the son of Marshal Mottola, Marco. The reconstruction of the crime outlined by the medico-legal report indicated a compatibility between the breakthrough of the door of the accommodation of the Arce police station and the head fracture reported by the eighteen-year-old student. The "compatibility between the micro-fragments found on the adhesive tape that wrapped the victim's head and the wood of the door, as well as with the lid of a barracks boiler" was also ascertained, "explained Cassino's procurator, Luciano d'Emmanuele.

The role of the Ris
The turning point in the investigations was the Ris's report which revealed how Serena's body, now lifeless, was moved to the Anitrella grove where it was later found with hands and feet tied by adhesive tape and a plastic bag on the head. During the new investigations, the investigators listened to 118 texts, many of which were chosen from among the 1,137 repeatedly heard in the eighteen years of searching for the truth for the crime of Arce.

The mystery of Tuzi's suicide
The judicial story of the murder of the eighteen-year-old Serena was long, tortuous and marked by even disturbing episodes. Two years later the crime was arrested on charges of murder and concealment of Carmine Belli's corpse, a coachbuilder who was later acquitted in 2006 of all charges by the Cassation. To add mystery also the suicide of the carabiniere Santino Tuzi who in 2008, before being heard by the magistrates, killed himself by shooting himself in his car. A case shrouded in mystery that may have been triggered by a terrible motive: perhaps serene the day she died she had gone to the police station to report some trafficking, perhaps related to drugs. Then the quarrel and the tragedy.