The Carabinieri arrested a suspect in the death of the homeless Concetta Gioè, 68, killed yesterday in front of the church of Santa Caterina in Messina during the night in Messina.
It is another homeless: Pietro Miduri, 70, a convict from Furci Siculo who in 1974 became the author of another murder.
To frame him the images of the surveillance systems in the area.
Questioned for over two hours by the prosecutor Vito Di Giorgio, the man did not admit the crime.
After the investigating judge validated the arrest, he was transferred to the prison of Trapani.
According to the reconstruction of the Carabinieri, there was a violent quarrel between the arrested and the victim: the man hit the woman with a knife 12 times and one of the blows would cut her jugular, causing her death. The homeless man, who has a husband and three children, was originally from Palermo. After the autopsy, the woman's body will be returned to her family.