In addition to Giovanni Barreca, the two people arrested yesterday by the police on charges of having participated in the murder of the man's wife and two children are Sabrina Fina and Massimo Carandente, two religious fanatics.
As with the 54-year-old bricklayer who confessed to the crimes, the charges are multiple murder and suppression of a corpse.
The couple - both are from Palermo - would have met Barreca during prayer meetings in an evangelical church.
A relationship between the two arrested men and the man who fueled the mystical obsession of the bricklayer, also a religious fanatic.
It would have been the two Palermo men who instigated him to kill his family members - Angela Salamone and her two children, aged 15 and 5, Kevin and Emanuel - to free the house from demonic presences and then physically participate in the crimes.
The only survivor of the massacre was Barreca's 17-year-old daughter, now entrusted to a community.
On the night between Saturday and Sunday it was the bricklayer who called the police.
"I killed my family," he said. "Come and get me."
In the man's home in Altavilla Milicia the military found the bodies of the children, probably strangled.
One was tied to a chain.
In another room, in shock, there was the survivor in a state of confusion.
The remains of the third victim were found burned and buried a short distance from the house.
According to initial findings - but the autopsy will give more precise answers - his wife was murdered days ago, his children on Friday.
Barreca and the survivor, therefore, would have spent days with the bodies in the house.
The police reached the couple accused of complicity in the crimes thanks to the analysis of the bricklayer's cell phones and some testimonies.
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