(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, March 16 - Three people were
arrested on Friday in connection with the robbery and death of
an elderly woman at her home in Reggio Calabria last October.
Massimo Berlingeri, 44, Benito Alessandro Bevilacqua, 24, and
Patrizia Caristo, 30, face charges of aggravated robbery and
manslaughter after allegedly entering the apartment of
88-year-old Maria Ficara shortly after she had returned from
church and beating her and forcing her to hand over her money.
The woman subsequently died from her injuries.
The trio had already been in Ficara's flat three times and
upended everything looking for where she kept her valuables,
police said.
They beat her at length to get her to tell her where they
were, breaking 10 ribs.
3 arrested for beating woman to death (2)
88-year-old died from injuries in October