Homicide-suicide, a witness speaks: Lorena was looking for a house

The story: “I don’t know if for himself or for others, but he asked me to view an apartment.” Autopsies Tuesday

The autopsy on the bodies of Giuseppe Santarosa, 55, and Lorena Puppo, 50, protagonists of the Fossalta di Piave drama will be carried out on Tuesday 14 June at 10 in Portogruaro. The carabinieri have reconstructed that he suffocated her with a pillow before killing himself with a knife and inflicting a stab in her throat.

Great dismay also in the province of Pordenone. Lorena and her partner frequented Spilimbergo, where the victim’s sister Anna, nephew Denny Valeri and her great-grandson live. The other niece. Marzia. Instead, she lives in Stiago di Fossalta, in the house where the woman lived as a young man. Lorena then worked for Pulicasa, a cleaning company with tax domicile in Cordovado in via Circonvallazione 42.

The investigators are analyzing the cell phone records and investigating the details on the marital crisis, which had caused Giuseppe’s paranoia, who feared that the woman had a lover, who did not exist, and a new non-existent disease.

But now in the painting has emerged the discovery of a detail that could have had a weight in the psyche of Giuseppe Santarosa, on the day of the crime.

Lorena Puppo had asked, a month ago, to view an apartment in Fossalta di Portogruaro. Urgently. She turned to a retired businessman known for selling or renting apartments in the area, Tarcisio Zanet. The man, yesterday morning, showed up early in via Roma. Shortly before, someone, completely anonymously, had brought a white rose, with two ribbons, one white and the other blue at the entrance to the seized house.

«I knew Lorena Puppo only by sight – declared Zanet – I knew that she had lived here for about ten years with her partner Giuseppe Santarosa, but nothing more. A month ago, my home phone rang. The person on the other end of the line was her, Lorena. She asked me for a date, because she was planning to see an apartment. Urgently”.

So the two met. Lorena Puppo, on the occasion, did not focus on who needed to rent the apartment. «You had made me understand that it could have been for a third person, but I am not sure. We met at my house. I welcomed her in the living room, we talked for a few minutes. But I was struck by her request. She had some urgency. You were talking to me about a person who really needed this apartment. “

Who needed this apartment? She? The husband? “We didn’t talk about figures on that occasion. And above all – concluded Zanet – we never saw each other again ».

Why, after the urgent request for an apartment for a month, Lorena hadn’t come back to Tarcisio Zanet’s? The need had disappeared. Did she go elsewhere to find more convenient solutions or solutions suited to the needs? The investigations have not yet clarified this.

As regards, however, the motive for jealousy, it seems Claudia Santarosa, Giuseppe’s niece, who had discovered the lifeless bodies in the house, confided this sensation to the carabinieri who intervened at the place where the spouses were found.

“I have never heard them argue and yet I live right across the street – added the resident Luigina Bergamo -. Her photo? I saw it for the first time in the newspapers ».