Giovanni Barreca, a 54-year-old bricklayer, was arrested in Palermo, Sicily. He is accused of killing his wife and two children with the aim of freeing them from Satan.
A third daughter, 17, managed to save herself. Police suspect that a couple was also involved in the crimes and may have pushed the bricklayer to carry out the brutal act. The dynamics and motive of the massacre are still to be clarified, although it seems that the driving force that pushed BarreCA was religious obsession.