An ax to behead the brother: the details of the horror murder in Benevento

The alarm was raised by neighbors who saw a man with a human head in his hands. The murderer had alcohol problems and was followed by social services

NAPLES – He was inside the bedroom of his house, in via Piano in Pannarano (Benevento). Next to the body an ax, which had probably been used by his brother to kill and behead him. Thus, the body of Annibale Miarelli, the 68-year-old pensioner killed last night by his live-in brother Benito, 57, was discovered by the Carabinieri of the Montesarchio company. The murderer was arrested in flagrante delicto by the military on the same evening yesterday. The murder would have come at the end of an argument, yet another. The 57-year-old was followed by social services and had alcohol problems. The case was known in the small town of Pannarano, but no one had hypothesized such a tragic epilogue. The murdered brother had lived in Rome for many years, then after the loss first of his son and then of his wife, he had decided to return to the small village where his brother lived, also to keep him under control.

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The police were alerted by some of the two’s neighbors. They had reported the presence of a man who had a human head in his hands. Then a phone call to the military from Benito Miarelli himself who, confessing, in a state of confusion, asked for help, explaining that he had killed his brother. When the police arrived on site they found the 57-year-old in the courtyard of the house. He was in shock and had his brother’s head in his hands. First the head had been thrown from the balcony, then the 68-year-old had come down, picked it up and placed it on a wall waiting for the arrival of the Carabinieri. The neighbors recounted this chilling scene because they had seen it.

Also on site were the public prosecutor on duty from the Benevento prosecutor’s office and the medical examiner who supervised the phase of the technical-scientific investigations inside the house, carried out by the personnel of the investigative unit of the provincial command of the Carabinieri of Benevento.< br>Benito Miarelli was accompanied to the offices of the Montesarchio company where, at the end of the ritual formalities and the toxicological tests to ascertain the possible intake of substances, he was declared under arrest and taken to the Benevento prison. The body of his brother Annibale was transported to the morgue of the San Pio hospital in the Samnite capital where, in the next few days, as ordered by the judicial authority, the autopsy examination will be carried out.
The remains under seizure home of the two brothers and the murder weapon. The investigations, coordinated by the Benevento prosecutor’s office, will clarify the reasons for the gesture.