Antonio de Marco: all the mistakes of Daniele and Eleonora’s killer

A series of mistakes made by the murderers of Daniele De Santis and Eleonora Manta on their escape route. What, after a week of frantic investigations carried out by the carabinieri, was decisive in closing the circle around the murderer of the bride and groom murdered in Lecce, in via Montello. Pierced with more than sixty stab wounds in an apartment building a short distance from the train station.

False steps by the alleged killer in concluding a premeditated plan, investigators explained. And the perfect crime has started to show some blemishes. Antonio De Marco, 21 years old from Casarano who confessed to the double crime, has made some mistakes.

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by our correspondent GABRIELLA DE MATTEIS

Tickets

Going back on your way before and after the double murder, scanning the crime scene and watching dozens and dozens of videos, the yellow of via Montello has taken on increasingly clear contours. In the range of clues collected by the carabinieri who shortly placed the young man from Casarano at the crime scene, there are the five notes lost after perpetrating the massacre. Pieces of paper on which the murderer had pointed out the ways to avoid so as not to be immortalized by the images from the video surveillance cameras. The calligraphy was compared with that of other documents acquired during the investigations by researchers in the Prefecture and in the Municipality. The lyrics were the same. An alien signature in its path.

The cameras

And in the escape Antonio De Marco has still taken a path where the cameras have resumed their step. In particular along the underpass of via Monteroni. Grainy and poor quality images. In fact, another clue in the investigative path that led the police to block the fugitive. In the events of this first phase of the investigation, some interceptions and stalking activities take place. The military monitored the dialogues, conversations, acquaintances and habits of the 21-year-old. That they would stay the same. De Marco continued to regularly attend nursing science lessons at “Vito Fazzi” hospital. Hand in hand with traditional research, technical and scientific research has also gained momentum. Victims’ mobile phones were analyzed, computers and media were scanned, and RIS specialists sent the first results of surveys conducted in the laboratory. Thus, the profile of the murderer has become increasingly clear, offering, after seven days, a first identikit until the stop.