Giovanni Barreca, a 54-year-old mason, confessed to killing his wife Antonella Salamone, 41, and their sons Kevin, 16, and Emanuel, 5. “I wanted to free them from the demon,” explained this fervent evangelical during his arrest.
The mother's partly charred body was found half-buried in the garden of their house, while the bodies of the children found in their beds bore marks of strangulation. The couple belongs to an evangelical community, which denounced on Monday “the horror” of the triple homicide.