Prati district in Rome: three women killed, serial killer hypothesis

The

has not been faced with a bloody event like today's triple homicide for years.

Two bodies in

practically at the beginning of Piazzale Clodio, and the other in Via Durazzo a few meters from the RAI headquarters in Via Teulada and the La7 building.

It all happened in a very short time.

We have to go back over the years to find other cases: that of

, when on 5 July Flavio Simmi, 33 years old, was shot dead in the early morning in via Grazioli Lante della Rovere, a few hundred meters away from the place of today's double crime .

The other case that immediately comes to mind is the murder of

in Via Poma on August 7, 1990.

A quiet quadrant, full of tourists, many B&Bs that have sprung up especially after the election of

Full of supermarkets, shops, bars.

A coming and going of people who only stopped in the first year of the pandemic.

But perhaps at that very moment some changes were also implemented in the composition of the inhabitants of the neighborhood. 

This morning, between 10 and 12, the spotlights came back on.

People are

, almost incredulous of what happened.

The alarm given by the doorman of the building in Via Riboty.

Find the first victim on the

another body in the house.

These are two Chinese women.

The first reconstructions speak of two escorts.

Killed with stab wounds.

One of them most likely died from a blow to the throat.

and the Scientific

Police rush to the scene .

Of the weapon, for now, no trace. 

The surveys are underway and the witnesses are being heard.

Laura Aprati

Double homicide in via Riboty, Rome

The building is a quiet place where there are families but also

For example, it is the area with the largest number of production companies working with TVs.

There is one on the first floor of the building.

The two women had lived there for some time.

Some of the tenants say they don't know what work they did but others also describe how opening the door worked, not via intercom.

The customer phoned and then it was opened to him.

However, this morning the

, the porter had gone up onto the terrace: a delivery of some household appliances was in progress.

Yet no one heard anything.

Next to the building there is a large

which is very busy at that time of day.

At the corner of the building there is also a petrol station.

“I arrived late, around 10.50: a colleague told me 'run'.

I understood from the confused and excited sentence that something had happened and when I arrived under the building, strangely, nobody was there.

- says a witness - An employee of mine told me, that he was alone at that moment, in a room which, however, is on the corner with Piazzale Clodio and which is two rooms away from the apartment where the murder took place, which they were left with the door closed.

In fact, the body of one of the two women was found on the landing by the porter who was coming down from the fourth floor, where they were moving.

We only heard her screams,

."

Soon comes the news of the discovery of a third body less than 1 km from the first place.

She is a 65 year old woman and was originally from

.

Marta Castano was found lifeless in an apartment in via Durazzo.

The two Chinese women killed in via Riboty due to lack of documents have yet to be identified.

"She was

I met her when she went shopping".

A resident describes Marta Castano like this.

The woman explains that she never noticed that something strange was taking place in the basement where Marta was found dead "but there were many small signs, there was a round of strange rentals, signs of massages near the lamppost - she says - They also damaged the intercom."

But these are things that come out today that perhaps weren't given prominence earlier precisely because of the turnover of inhabitants that has taken place in the last period. 

Certainly a district, that of Prati, of the good middle class, with a financial availability that has met various interests.

Laura Aprati

Double homicide in via Riboty, Rome