Former Serie C footballer
Andrea La Rosa had his throat cut and was partially dissolved by
his two killers, a mother and son, police said Friday.
La Rosa, 35, sporting director of lower-tier side Brugherio,
was allegedly killed by Antonietta Biancaniello, 59, and her
35-year-old son Raffaele Rullo, from the rundown and
crime-ridden Milan district of Quarto Oggiaro, after a row over
a loan La Rosa had given the son.
La Rosa went missing on November 14.
His partially acid-eaten body was found in the boot of
Biancaniello's car when she was stopped on a highway near Milan
Thursday.
Police said the pair decided to kill La Rosa because they did
not want to pay back the loan he had given Rullo, who had become
a friend of his.
Rullo lured La Rosa into his cellar on a pretext and cut his
throat, police said, and his mother was an accomplice to the
murder.
The pair bought acid to dissolve the body but only partly
succeeded because they did not have enough of it.
Biancaniello was reportedly on her way to get some more when
she was stopped by police.
Police said Rullo, an IT expert, looked up on the Internet
how mafia boss Giovanni Brusca dissolved the 14-year-old son of
an informant, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in acid in November 1996 after
25 months of captivity.
The mother and son have been charged with premeditation in
the murder, judicial sources said.
The pair intended to dismember La Rosa's body and then
dissolve it in the acid, police said.
They had bought a chain saw for this purpose, said.
Police also found in their home several phials of anesthetic
they presumably used to knock la Rosa out before cutting his
throat.
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