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“Everything must have been dictated by the crises I had that day and I decided to do it, sometimes I could stop my thoughts, both those who harm themselves and those who may be directed at others … not that day. Sometimes I was attacked by fits of anger. There were times when I wanted to hurt myself, I don’t know exactly why. These are some of the responses of Antonio De Marco, the 21-year-old from Casarano confessed to the murder of Daniele De Santis and Eleonora Manta, the two boyfriends murdered in Lecce, to the questions they asked him during the interrogation last Thursday during the hearing to validate the arrest. “I don’t even know what prompted me to do what I did,” added De Marco, speaking before court magistrate Michele Toriello, prosecutor Maria Consolata Moschettini and their defense attorneys Giovanni Bellisario and Andrea Starace.
De Marco: “I was having a crisis … Suddenly I started crying”
Already. Why this heinous crime? The killer cannot give a precise answer. “At certain times I have fragmented memories, I don’t remember everything in continuity … From time to time I had … I don’t know, like crises in which I suddenly burst into tears.” Of Marco said of having accumulated anger also towards other people, as well as towards Daniele De Santis and Eleonora Manta with whom he had shared a flat for a few months. But it did not specify who they were or identify them as possible targets. “I felt lonely, sometimes I couldn’t control my thoughts.”
De Marco’s anger fueled by rejection
The “Corriere del Mezzoggiorno” explains that the murderer’s anger “could have been fueled by the refusal of a classmate, whom he had declared a few months before the massacre but who had rejected him preferring ‘to remain friends. This is what emerged from the 71 pages of the validation interrogation of the 21-year-old from Casarano. De Marco – the newspaper writes – would have answered “yes” to the judge’s question about whether this disappointment could have contributed to increasing his resentment towards the world.
Boyfriends murdered in Lecce, De Marco’s self-injurious gestures
In the days leading up to the heinous double murder of Daniele de santis ed Eleonora Manta, De Marco would also have tried self-injurious gestures. The killer showed a scar on his right ankle. “I did it myself. I got burned.” Based on what he said, he used a shiny knife blade. He then reported that at some point he was tempted to “I don’t know, maybe to steal some medicine from the hospital, but I didn’t. I did take a box of Xanax to use myself, though,” he added. “Maybe to kill me, to hurt me.”
“I thought about giving myself up, I don’t know why I didn’t”
During questioning, De Marco revealed that he had also considered turning himself in. “But I don’t know why, so I never did.” After the first few days of not finding a carabinieri patrol in front of the house, at some point he probably really hoped that he could get away with it, forcing his own awareness that it was impossible.
The copy of the keys
The murderer allegedly awarded the double crime “already in August, when he was living with them.” The purchase of the knife with a blade of more than 15 centimeters and the copy of the house keys in via Montello, made in a hardware store, are proof of this. The killer had kept a duplicate key. The real why, it does not explain. Not for now. “I don’t know, he will say verbatim, perhaps to have control of something.” Then, Daniele’s announcement of having to carry out works on the house and, therefore, the need for Antonio to find a new accommodation. But at the end of the day, the 21-year-old explained, he had already decided to look for another room, in a place closer to the “Vito Fazzi” hospital, which he reached on foot every day.
Lecce murder: the relationship between de Marco and the two victims
However, between the murderer and the two victims there were no particular reasons for dissent. He writes indeed Lecce before:
“With Daniele and another roommate (whose last name Antonio does not even remember), also a tenant, in that period of coexistence in the house in via Montello, the relationships were minimal. At the limit of good morning and good night. At least , according to the Statements of the student of Nursing Sciences Each one in his room, each one with his life, ate at different times, the dialogue reduced to the bones.
There would never be any disagreement with the owner. I have no complaints about bills or anything, no late payments. And the relationships that existed, according to him, would not have gone much beyond a time when Daniele – known as a Serie C match manager – had asked him if he intended to enroll in a course for referees (answer: no). A singular circumstance, because it would have been one of the rare occasions in which something more like a dialogue between two people would have occurred. But is it true?
Antonio, then, but always according to him, would have had an even less profound knowledge of Eleonora, Daniele’s girlfriend. Just a presentation. And most of the time she would have noticed their presence in the house only from the voices coming from Daniele’s marriage room. Although on several occasions he denied a possible motive linked to any possible rudeness suffered, a lack of respect. In short, although the will to kill them matured at least since August, he did not really know or want to say why. ‘Maybe because I had made the keys, it was a bit easier to access, so to speak.’
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