Technical and unrepeatable forensic examinations, ordered by prosecutors, commenced Tuesday afternoon at the so-called “house of horrors” in Gemona (Udine), where 35-year-old Alessandro Venier was murdered on July 25th. Specialists from Parma’s RIS unit are conducting analyses that will form part of the trial dossier, aiming to corroborate the detailed confession provided by his 61-year-old mother, Lorena. The Carabinieri experts are also rechecking some verifications previously performed by Udine colleagues prior to Lorena’s crime scene reconstruction. The primary goal of Tuesday’s examination, attended by defense experts, is to verify Lorena’s precise statements.
In her arrest report and custody hearing testimony, Lorena recounted that around 5 PM on Friday, July 25th, she and her son’s 30-year-old Colombian partner, Mailyn Castro Monsalvo, enacted a criminal plan allegedly devised over months. They had reportedly purchased a large plastic bin and quicklime from Amazon in preceding weeks to mask the decomposing corpse’s odor. The women allegedly dissolved sedatives in lemonade, but Venier did not fully succumb. Lorena, a nurse in the local health district, then purportedly injected him with two vials of insulin she stole five years earlier during a suicidal phase. Only then did they allegedly begin smothering him with a pillow. When he continued resisting, Mailyn allegedly used her boot laces to strangle him.
The ordeal reportedly lasted nearly six hours. Realizing they couldn’t move the body due to its weight, Lorena allegedly instructed Mailyn to tend to the couple’s 6-month-old daughter in her room. Lorena then allegedly dismembered the corpse with a handsaw (later found and seized by investigators) into three sections, which Mailyn allegedly moved to the garage and covered with quicklime. They allegedly awaited decomposition to later scatter the remains in the mountains, purportedly fulfilling Venier’s stated wishes. The plan collapsed when Mailyn, for whom Lorena envisioned a future in Colombia with the child, broke down after five days and called emergency services.
Lorena cited continuous abuse by her son, who was preparing to move permanently to South America, as the motive – an opportune moment, she claimed, to eliminate him without raising suspicion in Italy. Examinations on the corpse by prosecution-appointed experts, observed by defense experts, also began Tuesday afternoon, including a CT scan (as the torso had been separated from the limbs). The autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 AM, again with RIS experts present.
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