Barbara Mazzullo, the eighty-year-old retired doctor, confessed to the public prosecutor that on the night of Christmas Eve he killed his wife, a former teacher, gravely ill, his same age, in their home in Strada Sant’Angelo, in Amelia. During the interrogation that took place after the crime, the man said he was “distressed” by the woman’s situation.
His wife’s health conditions would indeed degenerate over the last month. And she – known for being particularly bright and sociable – in moments of lucidity would have repeatedly reported seeing her dignity as a person trampled on. Hence the decision of her husband to kill her to put an end to her sufferings. The man would then hit her with a couple of pistol shots (not rifle shots as it was initially learned) – it seems legally detained – in the chest, which left her no way out.
In the house, at the time of the murder, there were also one of the couple’s two children, the partner and a caregiver, who then raised the alarm. The woman’s body is now at the disposal of the judicial authorities, while the interrogation of guarantee of the alleged murderer has not yet been set. “It is a tragedy that saddens the whole community, which took place on a particular day that is clouded” comments the mayor of Amelia, Laura Pernazza. Who knew the victim personally and remembers him, before the disease took over, as a woman “always witty and ready to joke”. The doctor was also particularly well known in the city and throughout the Amerino-Narni area.