A judge on Friday upheld the arrest
of a man who strangled his sister, cut her up and dumped the
parts in two dumpsters across Rome earlier this week.
Maurizio Diotallevi is charged with murder aggravated by
family ties and hiding a body.
He told police Thursday he had been thinking of killing his
sister Nicoletta for two months.
"I'd been thinking of killing her for two months but it was a
fit of rage, she'd been humiliating me continually," he said.
According to preliminary autopsy findings, Nicoletta
Diotallevi was strangled and then dismembered with a chainsaw.
Police said she had just returned to Rome from a trip to
Switzerland.
"As soon as she got back," her brother reportedly told
police, "she started giving me orders again, treating me alike a
child.
"I waited for her to get out of the bathroom and I attacked
her in the living room, strangling her with a belt".
Diotallevi then dismembered her because of the difficulty of
disposing of a whole body, police said.
A 39-year-old Roma woman who found the woman's legs in one
bin while sifting through it for food said Thursday: "I thought
she was sleeping".
"I thought it was someone who had decided to sleep in the
bin, then I looked inside one of the black bags and saw the legs
must have been frozen, because there was no blood."
She said she went to police shouting, in Spanish, "legs,
legs" and was not initially understood.
Nicoletta's legs were found in the upscale Parioli district,
and her head and torso about one kilometre away in a bin in the
Flaminio district, where the pair of siblings lived.
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