Prosy on Rai 3 the new cycle of episodes of One day in the Preturathe program conducted by Roberta Petrelluzzi who For over thirty years he has been telling the most debated processes of the Italian black news. Tonight the broadcast will reconstruct the terrible death of Agata Scuto, a young Sicilian girl 22 years old, with psychic problemsI, who disappeared in 2012. For years there was no track, until an anonymous letter sent in 2020 to “Who has seen it?” He did not lead to the reopening of the “Cold Case” by directing the investigations within the family context.
One day in Pretura 2025: tonight the episode on the crime of Agata Scuto
Acireale, Sicily. Agata Scuto is a disabled girl, with serious mental problems, with epilepsy And from a impairment to the arm and leg. The traces of 4 June 2012 are lost of her. To the investigators, his mother Mariella says she has left Agata at home alone to go and see her grandmother of the girl. Upon returning, the daughter was no longer at home.
The family begins immediately the research: one thinks of a hypothetical “Fuitina” with a certain Antonio, while Rosario Palermo, Mariella’s partner, claims to have moved away that in the morning for a snail collection trip.
The police, rummaging in the room of Agata, finds A diary where the girl noted her menstrual cycle: it turns out that Agata had not had menstruation for two months. Thus, the investigators begin to suspect the mother’s partner, Rosario Palermo Having said saro: perhaps they had had a relationship and the 22 -year -old had been pregnant.
Saro tells the police that he saw Agata about ten days After the disappearance in the company of a blond boy but It is not believed. For 8 years, the police do not find useful elements to frame it. The investigations are reopened in 2020 thanks to the Rai 3 program “Who saw it?”: A report comes according to which the body is hidden in the cellar of the house of the mother. The thesis is false but allows you to rekindle the attention on the case, bringing attention to the family and on the “particular” relationship between Palermo and the girl. Scored by the police, the stepfather does not confesses the crime But it is still brought to prison.
Roberta Petrelluzzi, presenter of “A day in the Pretura”. (Rai Press Office)
The trial against Rosario Palermo
Behind the bars, Rosario Palermo continues to profess innocent While the corpse of Agata is not yet found. In 2022, after 10 years from the disappearance, theThe trial in Catania: the Court of Assizes confirms that Agata has been strangled and her hidden body, almost certainly burnt In the countryside of Pachino, in Syracusan.
The sentence for Palermo is heavy: life imprisonment. According to the judges, he killed Agata to prevent it from finding out that he was pregnant with him. It is investigated for aiding and abetting too his mother Mariella, acquitted after the procedural process. In front of the cameras of Who saw it?declares: “He was a person who looked like a house and family, but you can no longer trust anyone in this world. I had trusted him and look at what happened to me ».
One day in Pretura 2025: the next episode
In the next and last season appointment of the program, Roberta Petrelluzzi will face The trial for voluntary murder against Giuseppe Difonzo. The 38 -year -old from Bari was sentenced to 29 years in prison for The three -month death of her daughter Emanuela: she suffocated her the night between 12 and 13 February 2016 in the Giovanni XXIII Pediatric Hospital of Bari.
According to the judges, the presence of the newborn in his life forced him to responsibility that he did not want to take on, so he killed him. The lawyers of DiFonzo they tried to argue that was suffering from a psychiatric disorder but i Psychiatric experts hired by the court have excluded this possibility.
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