Spouses killed in the Brindisi area, investigation carried out
Breakthrough in the investigation into the double homicide Of Tonino Calò and Caterina Martucci, the spouses shot dead in their home in Serranova, in the Canali district, in the Brindisi area: the victim’s brother, Cosimo Calò, was accompanied to the carabinieri barracks in San Vito dei Normanni, assisted by the lawyer Carmela Roma of the Brindisi bar.
Cosimo Calò could be the first entered in the register of suspects for the double homicide and in these hours the prosecutor who owns the file, Francesco Carluccio, is expected to begin the interrogation.
The facts
On the evening of Wednesday 1 March, around 18.30, Carmelo Calò, brother of Tonino Calò and brother-in-law of Caterina Martucci, he found the bodies of the spouses and alerted the carabinieri. While the man lay in a pool of blood at the entrance, with a shotgun shot entering his jaw, his wife Caterina was lying in the bedroom with two gunshot wounds to the head. Tonino told the carabinieri that he had called his brother with whom he had an appointment several times and having received no answer, he opened the front door (locked, but not locked). Turned on the light, the macabre discovery of the bodies.
The place of the crime
The lawyer’s appointment and inheritance issues
The appointment with his brother Tonino was to go together to a lawyer and discuss some family matters related to inheritance. It seems, from some indiscretions, questions that arose following the opening of the will which took place on the death of his brother Angelo Calò, owner of the house in the Canali district, in front of the home of Tonino and Caterina. House bequeathed to Tonino Calò and Caterina Martucci.
Tonino Calò
The track beaten by the investigators: family matters
From the first moment the track beaten by the investigators was the familiar one, having excluded the robbery due to the situation of poverty presented by Tonino and Caterina and the fact that nothing was missing from the house.
The two both lived on social pensions, on the collection of seasonal vegetables, raised three goats and some geese. Sometimes, as some citizens of the village of Serranova have testified, Tonino borrowed money to be able to go shopping and as soon as he received his pension, he gave it back. “They were good people, loved by everyone,” they told Serranova.
The murder weapon
The murder weapon, looks like a shotgun, it has not yet been found by the investigators, even if on March 7 the carabinieri of the Nor of San Vito dei Normanni, they seized a rifle legally held by Cosimo Calò.
Catherine Martucci
Fundraising for the funeral
Tonino Iaia, owner of the bar and grocery store in Serranova, started a collection to support the costs of the funerals of Tonino Calò and Caterina Martucci, even if the family could have afforded it. However, the noble gesture of Tonino Iaia and of those who are joining the collection demonstrates the affection and union of the entire community of Serranova towards the two brutally murdered spouses.
The interrogation in the presence of the lawyer and the prosecutor
Cosimo Calò is now with the carabinieri together with the lawyer Carmela Roma. The prosecutor who owns the file, Francesco Carluccio, is awaited. The autopsy of the bodies has not yet been ordered even if the coroner Domenico Urso has been appointed. This will allow to establish the precise time of the double murder of Tonino Calò and Caterina Martucci.
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