Our thanks to Wendy for this. The Telegraph covers the story with the headline What drove an Italian mother to murder her son (£). Among the headlines you’ll never see:

“What drove a father to murder his daughter.”

An extract from the first article takes up the remainder of this blog piece, text in bold in the original:

“We knocked him out with a sleeping pill around 5:30 PM, but he didn’t die until around 11 PM because we couldn’t finish it.” This is one of the excerpts from the confession that Lorena Venier, a 61-year-old nurse, gave to explain to investigators what happened that tragic July 25th in the house in Gemona, in the province of Udine, where she raised her son Alessandro, 35. She killed him—a son—and then dismembered him, along with her daughter-in-law.

“We decided to kill him by putting him to sleep: I emptied an entire blister pack of medicine into the lemonade, but it wasn’t enough. At that point, I gave him two insulin injections, since he wouldn’t fall asleep completely. I’d had them at home for about five years. I’d gotten them from where I work, because at the time I’d decided to use them to kill myself,” Venier said during the hearing to validate his [J4MB: her] arrest before the investigating judge of the Udine Court. “Once the insulin had taken effect, we tried to suffocate him with a pillow, but Alessandro continued to fight back, even though he was weak .” [J4MB: The Telegraph reports that they finally strangled him with a pair of his own bootlaces.]

“The plan didn’t include cutting him up,” she continued. “I did it myself, when we realized the body wouldn’t fit in the bin where it was supposed to decompose, waiting to scatter the remains in the mountains. At that point, I used a hacksaw to cut him into three pieces, and Mailyn took him to the garage and covered him in lime.”

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