27 years after the murder in Genoa of Maria Luigia Borrelli, the nurse who prostituted herself in a bass, the prosecutor has reopened the case of what is known as the 'crime of the drill', because she was killed with that tool.
The 42-year-old woman was murdered on 5 September 1995 in a low street in vico Indoratori, in the historic center of Genoa, where she prostituted herself under the name of Antonella while by day she looked after an elderly woman as a nurse.
A woman, then a child, daughter of a friend of the victim, also a nurse, revealed to the journalist of Il Secolo XIX, Marco Menduni, some confidences received from her mother, who was no longer alive.
Maria Luigia Borrelli may have been killed by a chief physician of a city hospital with whom she was having an affair and whom she had blackmailed.
The story is told by Il Secolo XIX.
Menduni put the woman in contact with the Genoa prosecutor's office and the case returned to the desk of the assistant prosecutor Patrizia Petruzziello who followed the case.
The witness has already been heard by the carabinieri.
She said that when her murder took place, her mother confided in her that she had strong suspicions about a primary care physician who died in recent years.
The man had met her in the ward where she worked as a nurse before turning to elderly care.
The witness said that her mother told her that in the days after the murder the chief showed up at work with his face marked so much that someone told him if he had fought with the cat.
Not only did the woman reveal to her daughter that there could be blackmail by the widowed Borrelli behind the murder,
The killer's DNA was found by investigators at the time at the crime scene, but did not match the suspects.
Indeed he exonerated one but too late: shortly before the results arrived, overwhelmed by the shame of the suspects, he had killed himself by jumping from the elevated road: it was the bricklayer Ottavio Salis, his was the drill used to kill, but the tool was there because he was renovating the bass.
Then the investigators targeted a gang of loan sharks, a regular customer, a man who showed up in a bloodied hotel in the area, a Moroccan murderer in Turin.
But that DNA cleared them all.
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