Women Killed In Riposto Still Yellow On The Motive Phones And Cameras A Sieve

First night in a cell for Luciano Valvo, the 55-year-old who yesterday morning "escorted" Salvatore "Turi" La Motta on the seafront of Riposto, in the Catania area where he shot the first of his victims Two women, Melina Marino and Santa Castorina, two more enigmas to decipher.

Before committing suicide in front of the village carabinieri barracks, La Motta hit them and almost seems to have wanted to cancel them, shooting straight in the face A case, a message? He thinks and works, examining in detail phones and above all chats of the victims.

It is from there that the carabinieri of Giarre and of the operational department of the provincial command of Catania, coordinated by the prosecutor's office directed by Carmelo Zuccaro, hope to bring out useful elements to reconstruct the framework of relations between the three The lawyer: "I asked him to turn himself in and he presented himself weapon in hand" We know about La Motta and his criminal record.

Boss brother, convictions for murders and the Mafia behind him, in perspective a life sentence to be served, but specifies his legal he, "he was a model prisoner" For this he had managed to obtain semi-liberty and a premium license.

A path on which the Minister of Justice, carlo nordio reads in a note, "asked the General Inspectorate to start urgent investigations" “He worked in Riposto, first in a bakery, then in a cheese shop.

During the two years of Covid he slept at his family's house, from January 3, once the pandemic emergency was over, he returned to the Augusta prison in the Syracuse area in the evening ", explains his lawyer, Antonio Alessi Yesterday he was casually in command while the carabinieri searched the town for La Motta, who immediately entered the shortlist of suspects also thanks to the images from the cameras.

And the investigators immediately asked the lawyer to contact his client "I called La Motta using the speakerphone and told him to turn himself in, to tell me where he was and that the carabinieri could go and get him.

He replied 'I'm coming, I'm coming' He arrived five minutes later", he says .

But in front of the barracks the man showed up with the weapon, a Smith & Wesson cal 38, still in his hand, deaf to all the intimations to put it down.

"He called me 'Antonio', with my first name i the carabinieri ordered him to put down his gun, and then I heard the shot”, underlines the lawyer "I would never have imagined that all this could happen, there was no previous signal".

Still yellow on the motive It is one of the points to be clarified How do you work to understand what was the point of contact between the killer and the two women.

Both unmarried, Melina Marino with two children from a previous relationship, Santa Castorina alone but long used to taking care of other people's children as a babysitter for work, the two victims were totally off the police radar “They had some small police precedents, but old stuff and nothing relevant”, filters from investigative circles.

“Two people like many” Officially it still remains to be understood where, when and why their life trajectories have crossed those of the killer.

“There is certainly a connection, but the picture is not yet clear”, investigators and prosecutors have been repeating since yesterday The families of the two victims have been able to say nothing in this regard that investigators and prosecutors already started listening to yesterday.

"I didn't even know they knew each other," said Santa Castorina's brother, shocked, when he arrived out of breath yesterday in the very central Via Roma, where the surveys on his sister's body were underway His shoulder, especially in recent years.

“Since I became a widower she was the one taking care of my son,” he said But to him, it seems, at least some aspects of his life were a mystery.

The country is small, rumors chase each other There was immediately talk of a relationship between the killer and at least one of the two women, Melina Marino.

Nothing official or known But how Santa Castorina enters this picture is not understood.

Had she perhaps got in the way, had La Motta come to consider her an obstacle? Hopefully, the phones will talk The accomplice's stumbles The cameras, on the other hand, will have to clarify what La Motta's movements were.

Between the two murders and the moment she shows up in front of the barracks there is a time gap of about two hours What he did, however, is not known at the moment.

In those hours the town was already armored with checkpoints, houses and shops belonging to people associated with his entourage were being searched Did he realize he has no way out? Apparently, at least for the first murder, he doesn't seem to have done anything to hide.

And neither is his accomplice, Luciano Valvo The cameras have framed him at the wheel of his black Golf as he accompanies La Motta along the seafront of Riposto, then he takes him back on board immediately after the murder to take him back to his neighborhood.

A little over an hour later, the killer would show up in via Roma to hit Santa Castorina And here's another point to clarify: did La Motta perhaps have an appointment with the two women or did he know their movements? It was hoped that Valvo would say something, but last night in front of the prosecutor Rocco Liguri made a silent scene.

The carabinieri traced him back within a few hours: the cameras framed his car, in short the owner was traced and he didn't even bother to hide it further than the garage at home When investigators knocked on his door because he was being investigated for complicity in murder, Vlavo was trying to get away.

Assisted by his lawyer, in the barracks he preferred to avail himself of the right not to answer .