A 53-year-old prison warder shot
dead his 45-year-old wife with his service pistol before
shooting himself dead in their home at Montalto Uffugo near
Cosenza Wednesday, police said. Their 18-year-old daughter, who
was in the house, called the police. The wife, named as Maria
Grazia Russo, had accused her husband Giovanni Petrasso of
cheating on her, police said. This led to continual rows, the
last of which culminated in the murder-suicide, they said.
Petrasso worked at Cosenza jail.
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