Draft:Murder of Luigia Borrelli

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The murder of Luigia Borrelli, known in Italy as delitto del trapano^[1] (English: Drill Crime) is a notorious crime in Italy. The murder was carried out on the night of 5 September 1995, in Vico degli Indoratori 64R, in the historic centre of Genoa.^[2][3] The victim was Luigia Borrelli, a 42-year-old former nurse, also known by the name of "Antonella", who worked as a prostitute in the alley where she was murdered.

The murder is known as the Drill Crime, taking its name from the tool used to kill the victim. It is remembered in the news as one of the most brutal crimes committed in the capital of Liguria in recent times and remained unsolved for many years until the case was reopened in 2023.^[1]

Luigia Borrelli was born in the 1950s in Iglesias, Sardinia, but at the end of the 1970s she moved to Genoa, where she found a job as a nurse at the San Martino Hospital.^[4] In the city she also met the man she went to live with, Mario Arnaldo Andreini, a divorced warehouse worker, with whom she had two children. Towards the end of the 1980s, Andreini tried to open a bar in the same neighbourhood where Luigia worked. He did not have the money necessary for renovations, and went into debt with loan sharks owing 250 million lira. In February 1990, Andreini died of a heart attack.^[5] Luigia was left with the task of supporting her two children and repaying the large debt, of which she had been unaware until after her husbands death.^[6]

Threatened and pressured by loan sharks, in 1992 Luigia was forced to make a difficult choice. She quit her job as a nurse and began to prostitute herself under the fictitious name of "Antonella" to pay off her debts.^[7] She even resorted to renting a property in the alleyway of Vico degli Indoratori at number 64, a few steps from Genoa Cathedral, where she could ply her trade. In July 1993 she was evicted, and moved to live from Corso Gastaldi, in the Foce district, to via Monticelli in Marassi,^[8] but it was in the Molo district that she managed to generate a rather large clientele, so much so that she could pay her rent and her debt. This however also attracted the antipathy of other prostitutes under pimps. She told her children that she was a carer for an elderly lady, Adriana Fravega, who was a former prostitute and owner of the property where Luigia organised the appointments.^[9]

On the day of her murder, Tuesday 5 September 1995, "Antonella" was seen having breakfast at the bar, around 10.30 in the morning, on the corner between Piazza Carloforte and via Bonifacio, a few steps from her house, a regular stop, as the owner of the bar recalled. She was later seen at around 1PM in a pizzeria where she usually ate, near Vico Indoratori, and an hour later in a bar in Piazza San Matteo, in the company of another prostitute. This was the last sighting of her alive.^[8]

The morning of the following day, Wednesday 6 September, at the request of her 19-year-old daughter Francesca, who had not seen her mother return home, Adriana Fravega went to check the premises in vico Indoratori, which she was able to enter at 8:30 due to the intervention of the carabinieri. The body was found there.^[10] She was covered in blood, in a room turned upside down by what had been an apprent fight between the attacker and the victim. The woman had broken teeth, several bruises and a drill stuck in her throat, a tool that gave the crime its media name, although none of the ten wounds, including the one inflicted by the drill, were immediately fatal. From the autopsy examination by the coroner, Dr. Enzo Profumo, it emerged that Borrelli had been attacked between 9 and 11 pm the previous evening and had died from the serious injuries she had sustained.^[8] Investigators described the crime scene as "overkill".^[11]

• Andrea Casazza, Max Mauceri, Liguria criminale. Dieci casi insoluti di cronaca nera, Genova, Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2005.