DelGrande Elia

Italian homicide; age 22 when he killed his family. Elia was a problem from the time he was in his teens, noted by social services to be difficult and disturbed but judged to not be dangerous. Among his disruptions, he had made an attack on a taxi driver and his dad, Enea, had silenced the case by paying off the cabbie. He was not able to hold a job and his parents were supporting him. They gave him the money to open a business in Santa Domingo but after he had lived there a few months, he spent the money and returned home. He came back to Italy at Christmas with another request for money which parents turned down, provoking his fury. On 1/07/1998, 3:30 AM, Elia entered his home in Cadrezate and murdered his mother, father and brother by gunshot. He escaped in the direction of Switzerland but was arrested the same morning at 11:30 AM, Ponte Tresa. Read less