17-Year-Old Who Killed His Parents and Little Brother: “I Thought About Killing Them the Night of His Father’s Party.” Autopsies Scheduled

While his father was celebrating his 51st birthday with his whole family, he had the massacre in his head, which he would carry out a few hours later, shortly before two on September 1. “It was the night of the party that I thought of doing it, I hadn’t yet come up with this plan, but I had thought of using the knife anyway because it was the only weapon I had available at home,” the 17-year-old who killed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother in the villa in Paderno Dugnano, in the Milan area, testified in front of the judge.
“If I had thought about it more, I would never have done it, because it is an absurd thing,” said the boy, for whom today, after an hour and a half of interrogation in the Beccaria juvenile prison in Milan, the investigating judge Laura Margherita Pietrasanta validated the arrest and ordered the precautionary detention, with the possibility of transfer to another juvenile penitentiary institution.
The judge highlights the “unusual ferocity and relentlessness towards the victims”, but also the “pre-arrangement of means” and the “propensity to change and “adjust” the version of the facts”. In addition to the “social dangerousness” and his “inability” to “control his impulses”. Hence obviously the danger of repetition of the crime, that is, that he could kill again, and also the confirmation of the accusatory framework, in the investigation of the Carabinieri and the acting prosecutor Sabrina Ditaranto and the PM Elisa Salatino, and of the charge of triple homicide aggravated by premeditation.
Premeditation that, for the lawyer Amedeo Rizza, however, does not hold up, but the investigating judge also reports that first version in which the boy had claimed that he had been thinking about it at least since the day before. Regarding the enigma of the motive, the young man’s words still revolve around that malaise for which he wanted to find a “solution”. He said that for “a few years” he had already matured “the idea of ​​living longer than normal people, also to know the future of humanity” and had begun to “feel like a stranger”. He had thought of running away, of going to Ukraine, but they did not seem to be useful solutions for his “purpose”.

“I really wanted to erase my entire life from before,” he tried to clarify, saying, however, that he didn’t have it in for his family specifically. “I’ve been feeling bad since this summer, but in the past few years I felt detached from others. Maybe the debt in math may have had an impact,” he adds. He felt, however, the pressure from his family. And again: “Every now and then my parents asked me if there was something wrong, because they saw me silent, but I said that everything was fine.” He perceived “the others as less intelligent and often I didn’t feel comfortable with certain reasonings or I thought that they were busy and worried about useless things.”
The maternal grandfather, who testified that the family was apparently “perfect” and who can now meet him and other family members, explained that the boy told him that he had done it because he wanted to “leave material possessions” and he had understood that he wanted to “separate himself from his parents”. He also asked him why he had also taken it out on his 12-year-old brother, to the point of killing him, and the 17-year-old replied: “I wouldn’t have been able to abandon him”.

In the documents, the entire atrocious reconstruction of the massacre. “My parents – he said – certainly spoke to me asking me what had happened and why I had the gun in my hand. But I don’t remember if I also hit them in their room”. They were “woken up by my brother’s screams” and then in the end he “closed” their eyes “perhaps out of pity”. In the experts’ reports, the young man said that he thought “of wars and I was moved thinking about these situations”, while “I didn’t see this in friends and family”.

“I didn’t want to leave my traces on the knife”
“When they fell asleep I went downstairs, took a black t-shirt and split it in half to hold the knife, because I intended to clean the knife to blame others.” These are the words recorded by the 17-year-old who committed the Paderno Dugnano massacre, as shown in the documents of the precautionary custody order and which highlight the fact, as confirmed by the investigating judge Pietrasanta, that it would have been a premeditated triple homicide.
The boy also said that, after attacking his brother with dozens of stab wounds, he went “to my parents’ room.” They, he continued, “turned on the light, I was in front of them with the knife in my hand. They told me to stay calm, they came into the room with me and there I attacked them.”
In the reports, attached to the documents, of psychologists who are dealing with his case, it is highlighted that the boy speaks of a “competitive climate” that existed in the family, but also in sports and more generally in society. A “relational climate – they write – perceived as critical and competitive”. Of his last summer holidays, with family and friends, he says that they had been “serene”, or at least that’s how he described them.
In the family, he said again in the interviews, “if there was a pretext to argue I tried not to do it.” He said he did not remember any “episodes of conflict with his family members.” And he said that that summer he read books about the “Second World War” and thought, even when he heard his family members complain about “material things,” “that there were others who suffered more.”

Autopsies scheduled
Autopsies have been scheduled for the morning of Friday, September 6, on the bodies of the father, mother and 12-year-old brother stabbed to death by a 17-year-old in the villa in Paderno Dugnano. The Milan Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, headed by magistrate Sabrina Ditaranto, ordered the autopsies, appointing a medical examiner for the investigations.
The first tests by a coroner after the massacre revealed a total of 68 stab wounds. Today, investigating judge Laura Pietrasanta confirmed the 17-year-old’s juvenile detention, as requested by the prosecutors.

For the defense of the boy, a consultation and a psychiatric evaluation will be necessary to evaluate a possible mental defect. The lawyer Amedeo Rizza has asked that the young man not remain in pre-trial detention in prison but be transferred to a community. But the investigating judge has established that the perpetrator of the massacre remains in the juvenile prison.
The president of the Juvenile Court of Milan, Maria Carla Gatto, stressed that the magistrates will examine “the dramatic affair with all the attention that the complexity of the case requires.”