(ANSA) - Milan, October 8 - Carabinieri military police said
Thursday an elderly woman who was found dead in a flat last week
may have let herself die after discovering the lifeless body of
her son.
The remains of Anna Grazia Del Turco, 76, and her
veterinarian son Leonardo Vitartali, 50, were found in a flat in
the town of Binasco near Milan on October 1.
There was no blood and no signs of a struggle at the scene,
and an autopsy revealed the mother died 48 hours after the son.
Vitartali was ill with diabetes, and Del Turco was in the
terminal stages of cancer.
Police are speculating she may have decided not to call
emergency services after finding her son had died on the sofa,
preferring to let herself die instead.
Mother 'may have let herself die'
Mother and son found dead in house near Milan