The escape of Luigi Morcaldi, 62 years old, lasted a morning and an afternoon. He fatally stabbed his ex-wife Luciana Ronchi in the morning in the morning, stabbing her in the face, abdomen and chest with a knife in via Grassini, in the Bruzzano district on the northern outskirts of Milan. Rescued, the 62-year-old later died in hospital in the afternoon.
Morcaldi had escaped but made a mistake during his escape: he turned the phone he had turned off back on for a few moments. Thus the local police officers, who were already on his trail, managed to identify him and stop him. In via Grassini they also found and seized the knife in a basket. In these hours the man is being questioned in the local police offices by prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia, who coordinates the investigation with his colleague Leonardo Lesti. An arrest warrant was served for aggravated murder.
The officers found him at North Park; first they had identified his scooter and then his car. Morcaldi had waited for his ex-wife outside the house; in recent times he often stood in front of the red building in Via Grassini. He had been keeping an eye on her in recent weeks, so much so that some neighbors had even criticized him for his insistence on asking what his ex-wife was doing.
Luciana, first cleaning lady, now employee of a canteen, after separating from her husband, her peer, had found another partner with whom, the neighbors say, she lived a quiet life. Morcaldi, from whom she had had a son and had been separated for three years, reached her riding his Beverly scooter and, without even removing his helmet, hit her, shouting phrases such as “the house is mine”, with a knife in the jugular and then in the abdomen and chest, so much so that she spent a long time in the operating room at the Niguarda hospital, where she died.
It was the local police officers, commanded by Gianluca Mirabelli, who intervened first and tried to rescue her, while the 118 rescuers arrived. The separation from her ex-husband, according to what has been reconstructed, would have had an economic consequence (it seems they had also managed a bar together).
In the past, in 2022 there had been an intervention at the house by the police due to a family dispute but no complaint had been filed. However, the investigators are having it checked whether there were other interventions even if a neighbor reports that Luciana had literally “kicked him out of the house” at that point; At least that’s what he told her.
The man, after arriving on his motorbike, hit her and chased her for about twenty meters while the neighbors heard cries for help: “You have to go!”. “I saw him arriving on his motorbike, he beat her up,” says a neighbour. He didn’t know that those were knife blows that Luciana had received before collapsing between two cars parked in via Grassini. “I saw her bleeding on the ground, she had blood all over her face and the police were helping her – another neighbor reconstructs -.
We were at the bar and we heard the sirens; we ran there and saw her on the ground. He couldn’t even speak.”
The local police forensic officers searched the street for a long time, after cordoning it off in search of finds.
Morcaldi was also there yesterday, says those who live in the area, and spoke badly of his ex-wife in front of other people. She also left a letter in the car to denigrate her to her son and explain her action.
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