Overview
- Investigators say the 64‑year‑old victim was found in the home pool on September 27 and that autopsy and medico‑legal reports later showed signs consistent with suffocation and lacerations to the mouth.
- Carabinieri and the Como public prosecutor used on‑site experiments, CCTV and phone analysis, medico‑legal perizie and witness statements to reconstruct events and to challenge the initial version given by the suspect.
- Prosecutors allege the former husband forcibly closed the woman's mouth, pushed her in a wheelchair to the pool edge and threw her into the water, and they have opened an investigation for aggravated voluntary homicide.
- Seventy‑six‑year‑old Carmine Civitillo was arrested in the province of Benevento and placed in pretrial detention after a judge (GIP) approved the custody order requested by the prosecutor.
- The victim had been severely disabled after an ischemic stroke and was living with family at the ex‑husband's home, a detail central to the inquiry and to public concern about violence against vulnerable people and care arrangements.