Overview
- Police, firefighters and local officers entered the Conca Fiorita flat on 10 September and found 101-year-old Francesca Pettinato in bed under blankets, her body mummified.
- The 60-year-old daughter, a public employee, was taken to the psychiatric ward at Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital and spoke with investigators.
- The prosecutor’s office has placed the apartment and family garage under judicial seizure and is probing concealment of a corpse and possible benefit fraud linked to pension and Law 104 permits.
- A forensic autopsy is being arranged with specialists in mummified remains, with investigators also reviewing transactions from the mother’s account.
- The intervention followed the Genoa-based son’s alarm after failed contact with his sister, following months of neighbor complaints about a persistent stench and earlier unsuccessful checks.