• 81-year-old killed at home in Bari, several stab wounds on the body

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September 16, 2021 He was framed by the images of the video surveillance cameras of a shop not far from the house where the victim lived. Saverio Mesecorto, 51, confessed to the public prosecutor of the Bari prosecutor's office the murder of 81-year-old Anna Lucia Lupelli. The woman was killed at home on 13 September last, with several stab wounds. 



The video checked several times by the investigators of the Bari mobile squad immortalized the man in front of the door of the building where the murder was committed between 12.55 and 13.13, a time frame that coincides with the crime.



Danger of escape and unusual violence


This is what was reconstructed in the arrest decree notified to the man at dawn, who is now in prison in Trani on charges of premeditated murder. In the detention order, the prosecutor motivates the emergency precautionary measure, highlighting "the absolute incapacity of self-control and the unusual violence demonstrated in the affair" which "constitutes a concrete reason to believe that the aforementioned may flee".



The motive


Always moving in the field of hypotheses, the man would have referred to an urgent need for money. For this reason he subtracted the sum of one thousand euros that the old woman had in her home and the ATM found in the bag. The gloves used to stab the woman, the ATM and the purse were thrown into some garbage cans.



The reconstruction of


the

murder 

According to the reconstruction of the men of the flying squad coordinated by the prosecutor Claudio Pinto, Anna Lucia was preparing lunch. In fact, the agents found the table set and, on the kitchen hob, with the flame still burning, a pot with charred food. The woman's body was found the next day. In addition to the videos, the statements of the neighbors and family members were fundamental. Statements that allowed us to reconstruct the dynamics and the motive.