Disappeared for 10 years, arrested as a former cohabitant of her mother

(ANSA) - CATANIA, 17 JAN - It is Rosario Palermo, the ex-partner of the mother of the young woman who disappeared from home on June 4, 2012, the man arrested by the Carabinieri of the Acireale company for the murder and concealment of the body of Agata Scuto , the 22-year-old whose body was never found. The investigations were initiated by military personnel from the Acireale Armada in 2020 after a report on the broadcast 'Who saw it?' Rai3 on the presence of the young man's body, suffering from epilepsy and an impairment in the arm and leg, hidden in the cellar of his mother's house. But the searches failed. The carabinieri's attentions were concentrated on Rosario Palermo, explains the Public Prosecutor of Catania, "because of the particular relationship he had established inlast period with the girl ", for" the falsehoods of the information provided to the investigators "about" his displacements on the day of Agata's disappearance ". Among the" serious indications of the man's guilt and responsibility for the murder and concealment of the cited an environmental wiretapping. "The man, speaking alone inside his own car - writes the Public Prosecutor of Catania - frightened by his possible arrest, expressed his fear that the body of Agata Scuto was found in a cottage in Pachino and that he ascertained that it was was strangled and burned, reflecting on the need, moreover, to go to the place to check what was left of the body ". To raise suspicions about Palermo also the fact that the man" would have tried to pollute the evidence,not only obtaining confirmation of his false alibi from his acquaintances, but even arranging a complex staged to simulate traces such as to justify the reason for which on the day of Agata's disappearance he had seriously injured his leg "claiming that it had been caused by a fall in the mountains. For this reason, during the restrictions on free circulation due to the pandemic, he "tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".but even by arranging a complex on stage to simulate traces such as to justify the reason for which on the day of Agata's disappearance he had severely injured his leg "claiming that it had been due to a fall in the mountains. circulation due to the pandemic, "tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and innocence".but even by arranging a complex on stage to simulate traces such as to justify the reason for which on the day of Agata's disappearance he had severely injured his leg "claiming that it had been due to a fall in the mountains. circulation due to the pandemic, "tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and innocence".that he would have liked to have the day of his arrest recovered in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".that he would have liked to have the day of his arrest recovered in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".

   (HANDLE).