An inspection that lasted more than six hours. The Ris have plumbed the house of Martina Patti and the field where the woman has found the little body of her daughter Elena of 5 years. Although she confessed to having stabbed the child to death, according to investigators Martina Patti he would not have told the whole truth.
The murder weaponwhich according to the autopsy on little Elena would be “compatible with a kitchen knife”, it has not yet been founddespite having been searched everywhere, both with drones and by digging into the ground and searching the brambles of the Mediterranean scrub near the field where the body was buried.
At the home of Martina Patti, however, the investigators have found some traces of blood on clothes and in some parts of the house. These traces, however, are not sufficient to prove that the crime took place in her house: it is possible that they were left by the woman when she returned home to change after killing her daughter.
Meanwhile, the Ris they confiscated the kitchen knives, to compare the blades with the wounds found on Elena’s body, and Martina Patti’s clothes. On the kitchen table, the carabinieri also found what’s left of the pudding that the little girl ate on her way back from kindergarten, on what was her last day of life, before going out with her mother again.
Meanwhile, Martina Patti remains detained in solitary confinement in the prison of Piazza Lanza, in Catania. Her lawyer, Gabriele Celesti, says that the woman “is not serene.” She is being visually checked why it is believed that she may carry out self-harm gestures or that the other inmates may attack her. Validating the woman’s arrest, the judge for preliminary investigations, Daniela Monica Crea, underlined the woman’s “cold determination” in carrying out her plan and “the aggravating circumstance of premeditation”. According to the investigating judge, there are all the precautionary needs: the possible reiteration of the crime («è socially dangerous and could go back to killing»), The danger of escape and that of pollution of the tests.
Source: Vanity Fair
