‘Exorcism homicide’ father tortures and kills household to expel Satan
- Giovanni Barreca used a fire poker and electrical wires to beat and strangle his spouse and two younger sons to demise
- The killer confessed to murdering his spouse and two sons at their residence a day later
- Neighbours say he was obsessive about the satan and had deluded beliefs about animals
A Satan-obsessed bricklayer in Italy tortured and murdered his household with the intention to ‘rid them’ of the satan, it has emerged.
Giovanni Barreca killed his spouse, gagged his sons with rags, tied them in chains, beat them with a fire poker and strangled them to demise with electrical wires.
It is believed his 17-year-old daughter, who was discovered a number of days later hiding in her bed room in a state of shock might need been drugged and compelled to observe.
Barreca, satisfied there was a demon in the home that wanted to be expelled, started his sadistic spree by killing his spouse Antonella Salamone, 40, burning her physique and dumping her charred stays within the again backyard.
The killings, which occurred in Altavilla Milicia, close to Palermo, are thought to have lasted over a number of days, with Barreca shifting on to his two sons aged 5 and 16.
Using a fire poker and electrical wires, the deranged killer mercilessly pounded and strangled his kids after which buried them beneath a couple of inches of earth subsequent to their mom.
Giovanni Barreca confessed to killing his spouse and two sons a day after he murdered the final one
A day after the brothers are thought to have been killed, on Saturday, Barreca turned himself in to the Carabinieri (Italian police drive) reportedly saying: ‘I killed my household, I’m ready so that you can come and get me… there was a demon in the home.’
An post-mortem on the three victims has been organized for Saturday to find out the precise causes of demise.
Salamone’s physique was so badly charred and her killing so brutal that it’s thought her precise reason behind demise may be unable to be decided.
Neighbors of the household have come ahead to the police, telling them that Barreca had a whole obsession with Satan and would ship them texts about his deluded satanic beliefs.
One of those beliefs was that cats are animals of the satan.
A witness, Salvatore Turco, who runs a personal postal company within the village instructed reporters at Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera that he has motive to imagine Barreca did not act alone.
Turco described him as a ‘meek’ particular person.
He stated: ‘He should have been fomented.’
Turco instructed reporters that given Barreca’s slender construct, he couldn’t have accomplished what he’s accused of on his personal.
A pair, who’ve been dubbed ‘non secular fanatics’ by locals and are believed to be buddies of Barreca, has since been accused of performing as his accomplices within the killings.
The pair, Massimo Carandente and Sabrina Fina, which Barreca initially met at an Evangelist church have been arrested on suspicion of being accomplices.
The police had been in a position to observe them down utilizing Barreca’s cellphone.
Carandente’s Facebook profile is awash with non secular slogans corresponding to ‘Satan makes use of corrupt pastors’ and ‘When the individuals pray, the satan trembles’.
Fina is claimed to be a ‘self-styled psychological coach’.
The couple, each from Palermo, had been taken to the prosecutor’s workplace and are dealing with a number of homicide fees.
Pictures from the scene exhibits police tape throughout the street in entrance of the household residence, in addition to police gathered outdoors plenty of police automobiles
The killer is claimed to have believed the home was haunted by a demon and he wanted to banish it by murdering his household
Police are wanting into whether or not {the teenager} was drugged and compelled to observe the bloodbath, La Stampa studies, and have been talking to the woman.
She instructed La Stampa Italian newspaper La Stampa: ‘He wished to free us from the satan.’
‘My father was satisfied that the home was haunted by the satan.’
The 17-year-old is presently being taken care of in a protected group.