A 78-year-old woman was found dead last night after a home robbery, according to reports from her family, whose story is being examined by the carabinieri.
Rosina Cassetti, this is the victim's name, was found last night on the kitchen floor of a house in Via Pertini in Montecassiano (Macerata), where she lived with her husband, daughter and a nephew.
According to the story of the family, a man broke into the house, slapped the victim's daughter and locked her husband in the bathroom.
To free them would be the nephew on returning home.
The Macerata Prosecutor's Office proceeds for murder.
Even if the scenario is that of a robbery that ended badly, the carabinieri, led by the provincial commander Nicola Candido, are investigating across the board.
According to the investigators, no hypothesis is excluded, taking into account that it is an "unnatural" death, probably due to asphyxiation or suffocation.
The coroner Roberto Scendoni examined the body and further investigations are planned, but to clarify the causes of death we will have to wait for the autopsy.
Family members were heard in the barracks last night.
"We are verifying the version of the family members," said the prosecutor Giovanni Giorgio, who is following the investigation together with the deputy Vincenzo Carusi.
Throughout the night, the husband of the victim Enrico Orazi, owner of an auto parts shop in Macerata, his daughter and nephew were interrogated separately in the police station.
According to them, a man dressed in black would have entered the house (perhaps climbing over the fence as the gate was not forced), first hit the daughter and then immobilized her, putting a sock in her mouth, then closed the father. in the bathroom.
The two were freed by the victim's nephew, who returned home, and at that point they raised the alarm.
Also according to relatives, about a thousand euros in cash is missing from home.
None of the neighbors (the house is part of a series of terraced houses) would have noticed anything and the two large dogs of the family did not bark.
The carabinieri are also verifying the presence of surveillance cameras in the area.