The alleged killer of three Rome
prostitutes may have acted in a premeditated way, prosecutors
said Thursday after finding that the former Camorra boss driver
had disguised himself before entering the scene of his first two
murders, and had deliberately filmed them.
Giandavide De Pau, the 51-year-old former driver of Camorra boss
Michele Senese, is accused of stabbing to death two Chinese sex
workers as well as a 65-year-old Colombian trans prostitute,
Martha Castano, in the Italian capital last week.
The Chinese sex workers were named Wednesday as Yang Yun Xia,
45, and Li Yan Rong, 55.
De Pau allegedly filmed Yang's murder for 14 minutes and Li's
murder for 42 minutes.
The man is to have a psychiatric test based on his previous
treatment for mental issues and problems with drugs, his defence
team said Wednesday, as police said they were looking into
another years-old cold case prostitute murder which DE Pau may
have committed.
Police have said De Pau was looking for counterfeit documents in
order to flee the country and that he may have killed other
women.
His lawyers have said he remembers nothing about the alleged
murders apart from "all that blood".
A Rome judge on Wednesday upheld last Thursday's arrest warrant
against De Pau and ordered him to be held in "the utmost
surveillance".
There is at least another murder of a prostitute being probed in
connection with the triple killing by De Pau, police said
Wednesday.
It is a cold case from many years ago that bears similarities to
the murders of two Chinese prostitutes in Via Riboty and one
Colombian sex worker in Via Durazzo, both streets in the upscale
Prati district of the Italian capital, police said.
"There are many analogies," police said.
Police are trying to delve into his personal history and see if
he may be linked to the cold case.
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