Crimes: The Mantis Assassin
The mantis assassin
The corpse of Caesar Brin presents striking evidence of hammering. In two years of investigations and trials, interwoven stories of love, jealousy and money.
Sentenced to 26 years for killing lover Caesar Brin, what was called the "praying mantis" Cairo Montenotte is currently in semi-freedom regime: wash and iron your laundry in a hotel run by nuns
the night between 12 and 13 June 1987 is found the lifeless body of Caesar Brin, 55, pharmacist Cairo Montenotte, the main town of the Val Bormida become known, in the eighties, for events related to environmental chemical plant Cengio acne.
Caesar Brin, notables of the town of Cairo, City Council of the Christian Democrats and chairman of the local football team, autopsy results, have been killed in the head with a blunt object before being finished with a hammer, the body was dumped in a ravine in Mount Ciuto on the heights of Savona.
The first to go to jail is the lover of the pharmacist (married and father of two children who live with their mother in Rapallo). It's called Gigliola Guerinoni, 44 years, two failed marriages, an endless series of suitors (more or less fortunate). Gigliola is a very attractive blonde with blue eyes, was a nurse but later became a dealer. A bit 'all define it as a female fatal to the whirling round of the men who wheel around. The papers describe the process as the "Cairo Montenotte of the mantis," named after the female insect that kills the male after mating. Some newspapers (not quite know whether to collect items in the country) calls it "pink lips" which is redundant for reasons explained in these notes.
Gigliola But is not the only one to sit on the dock. One after the other five men end up in the investigation: Ettore Geri, seventy-seven , a former lover of Guerinoni, accused of killing out of jealousy but the pharmacist at the instigation of the woman. But there is also a quartet made up of a former superintendent, Raffaele Sacco, a local councilor, Gabriele Di Nardo, Giuseppe dall'imbianchino Cardea and Mario Ciccarelli, co-worker of the victim. All of them are accused of hiding the corpse of the pharmacist Brin.
investigations are laborious and last almost four years before we can celebrate the process. In reality it will celebrate three cases. By judgments of unambiguous: Gigliola Guerinoni is always recognized as the murderer of Caesar Brin. Ettore Geri, acquitted at first instance and on appeal is doomed for complicity with the woman.
All in all a pretty straightforward criminal history, if not for the overflowing personality of Guerinoni and for his ruthlessness. That these two elements, then as now, they end up hitting the public, but disgusted at the same time attracted by Gigliola figure of a woman ruler of men, social climber, proud and used (there are words in the decision at first instance) "on you manage the relationship with men. "
The crime had started from jealousy and interest. Jealousy was to Ettore Geri, a former lover. The interest, to both: she wanted a lot of money to finance his art gallery, and he, Geri, he wanted a fair sum to step aside. Yet the victim at the time, not in good sailing waters and even wanted to return to his wife.
During the process Gigliola Guerinoni provides many roles: the passionate lover, the mother wound, cynical adventurer, the naive betrayed. Stuck in a white suit, pale under the light makeup, the hair stopped by a ribbon, is still beautiful despite her forty years past. Still provoke anxiety in men. Yeah, man. Gigliola, as has been said, has had several: a night watchman, an accountant, an interior decorator, a pharmacist (alas he finished the graveyard). In short, one for every need: economic, amatory, political and judicial.
Very discreetly, "the mantis" adds another: that of examining magistrate Maurizio Picozzi, former magistrate of Cairo Montenotte, who had the insensitivity of indictments and that he was not against him during the gallant ' inquiry. In a twisted memory delivered to the President of the Court of Assizes (Franco Undertaker is his name ...) Gigliola intends to challenge the judge and reveals the details of a sort of love story that was influenced in a negative way, throughout the investigation built for revenge.
Nobody believes her, of course: it is a last attempt to stop the process. A process in which the parade of witnesses including 114 well betrayed wives, one for all the widow of Caesar Brin.
Pending the appeal process, after being sentenced to 24 years in prison, gives an interview to a weekly. Your answers are the most puzzling you might think. Here's an example: "As I have made slaughter, have sunk the knife in my private life and threw everything into place and I have taken away even that which I possessed ... Here in my house, waiting for the court of appeal, I have nothing more ... They took furniture, radiators, lamps. They did it because, they say, things have Guerinoni the market and sell well ... Even the laundry I have stolen ... What I am wearing was given to me by the people ...". And again: "Some people close to me and offers me his support. Many do in secret for fear of having trouble by the Police, but no matter. I still feel them near me and this is a great help. I come from a very religious family and are accustomed to giving. In my life I have given much and now I get moved. "
Today Gigliola Guerinoni ago? He is 58, some of which, after the murder of Cairo Montenotte, were spent in various prisons Italian (Venice, Cuneo and Finally Rebibbia). E 'probation with a stake in external work. In prison there should be only at night to sleep. She works at a nunnery, San Giuliano, the Institute turned into a luxury hotel a stone's throw from Piazza Navona. Washes and irons the laundry rooms.
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