The mummified corpse of a 90-year-old woman was discovered by the carabinieri sealed in a chest in an apartment in Paderno Dugnano (Milan), during an inspection following the death at her daughter's home, which took place three days ago. According to what emerged, the woman, 64, would have kept her mother's body to continue collecting her pension.
The carabinieri returned today to Sabina Ghirello's house in search of documents. The woman had been found dead in an advanced state of decomposition three days earlier, after the alarm of the other residents of the neighborhood where the woman lived with her mother, Pasqualina Munerato, 90, all sick and resident for some time in a facility for the elderly, in the province of Verona. It was they who spoke to the carabinieri about the need to trace the center where the elderly woman should have been.
Back in the apartment in Paderno Dugnano, the military began to look for clues and documents that could help them identify the shelter, after finding no trace of the 90-year-old in numerous centers contacted. The searches continued for several hours, since the house was in precarious hygienic conditions, full of objects and furnishings, which made it difficult to identify cabinets and drawers. In a chest, they finally found what is almost certainly Pasqualina's body, wrapped in cellophane and mummified.
The bodies of the two women were transported to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Milan for forensic examinations necessary to decree the causes of death and confirm the identity of the ninety-year-old. From a check carried out on current accounts and at the Registry Office, it emerged that the death of the 90-year-old, which occurred seven months ago, was never communicated and how Sabrina Ghirello was regularly receiving her pension, her only source of livelihood, on the joint account with her mother.