Murder! Italian Style

Episode 06: The Killer Is Always The Butler


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The murder of the Olgiata was for two decades a black hole in the Italian black chronicles news.  As it always happens in the galaxy of conspiracies and unsolved crimes it was attributed to secret services, criminal gangs, the husband or an alleged serial killer. There were dozens of interrogations, two main suspects, DNA tests and telephone tappings. The prosecution and the Carabinieri dedicated huge amounts of money to the investigation, accounts were pursued in Switzerland, but no one was able to determine who the hell could have sneaked between 9.15 - when  daughter Domitilla called the room without receiving an answer - and 10.30, moment when she returned with one of the waitresses and found her mother lying on the floor with her head wrapped in a bloody sheet. It took twenty years to solve the murder, this is the story of Countess Alberica Filo Della Torre. 

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Murder! Italian StyleBy Nadia and Tiziano