Bitonto femicide, at 75, kills his wife and barricades himself in the house. Then call the police: 'Come on, I killed her'

Pensioner stabs wife to death near Bari, tries to kill self - General News

A 75-year-old pensioner stabbed his 75-year-old wife to death with a pair of scissors near Bari on Friday, the latest in a horrifying spate of femicides in Italy. (ANSA)

The victim's name is Lucia Chiapparino, 74, and she was killed, with a pair of scissors, by her husband Vincenzo Visaggio, a 75-year-old retired worker

A man of about 75 years old stabbed his wife a little younger than him to death and then called the police confessing: Come on, I killed my wife. The femicide...

He stabbed his wife to death and then confessed to the murder in a call to the police. Drama in Bari, where this morning a 75-year-old man, after a fight at their home in Mariotto, a hamlet of the town of Bitonto about 40 km from Bari, fatally hit his partner and called 112 shortly after to tell what happened. “Come, I killed my wife,” the man said to law enforcement. In the following moments, the old man would have tried to commit suicide but w…