He Hides His Dead Mother in the Freezer for Years: Another Case in Cagliari

The motivation is always the same, money: he wanted to continue pocketing his mother’s pension. When she died, he hid the body in the freezer. The case comes from Sarroch, Cagliari, and is not the first in Italy. A 54-year-old was reported for concealment of a corpse and aggravated fraud against the State. The body of the 78-year-old mother was found by the carabinieri in a freezer on the ground floor of the house. According to initial investigations, he had been there for about two years after the woman’s death from natural causes. A person had reported the woman’s absence, Rosanna Pilloni, to the police. He found her suspicious despite her son, Sandro Mallus, apparently saying she was in another location.

Doing a search back in the news you find very similar cases in Italy and not only, so much so that a story like this has also become a film: Put grandma in the freezer with Fabio De Luigi and Miriam Leone.

The story of 61-year-old Cynthia Carolyn Black comes from the USAarrested for hiding her grandmother’s death and hiding her body in her home freezer for 15 years. The body was discovered by two women interested in the property during a visit with a real estate agency. The events occurred in February 2019 in Pennsylvania. The grandmother, Gleonora Delahay, died in 2004 at the age of 97. With her pension money, at least $186,000, she also managed to get a mortgage and move to another house. ,

Angelo Bellanova, a 56-year-old from Ceglie Messapica, was sentenced in June 2024 to one year and eight months in prison. In 2022 he hid the body of his elderly mother who died of natural causes in a chest freezer. He wanted to continue receiving his pension and carer’s allowance. He did this for 8 months before being discovered after the complaint of some nephews who no longer saw the woman.

We go back ten years with the case of Mary Musitano94 years old, whose body was found in the freezer of her home in Delianuova, in the Reggio Calabria area. Her 51-year-old son was reported for the crimes of concealing a corpse and fraud. The carabinieri found the body after an anonymous phone call. The elderly woman’s neighbors had not seen the woman for about a year. The reason is always the same: the pension was the family’s only reliable income.

Also from 2014 the case of Borgomanero with the body of a woman found in the freezer wrapped in a garbage bag. The discovery occurred only because the woman’s daughter felt ill and the police entered the apartment.