Life sentence for the murder of Giulia Tramontano

Alessandro Impagnatiello was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Giulia Tramontano. The former bartender had confessed to the crime which occurred in Senago on May 27, 2023. We reconstruct the stages of the case, from the motive to the confession, until the recent trial.

Senago’s murder, motive and crime scene

The murder took place in the house in Senago (Milan), where Giulia Tramontano, a 29-year-old Neapolitan, lived with her fiancé Alessandro Impagnatiello. First, the scientific police had noted an abundant presence of blood in the room of the apartment, which a careful cleaning did not succeed in erasing: therefore, on the evening of May 27, Giulia had been killed in the living room . This was confirmed in the courtroom by the head of the scientific police of the Milan Carabinieri who was heard as a witness at the trial.

Alessandro Impagnatiello, the former bartender, later confessed to the murder, claiming to have stabbed his partner in the seventh month of pregnancy. The mobile? The fiancée (and unborn child) were an obstacle to his relationship with his mistress.

The investigation

To help the Scientist in the reconstruction, luminol, a chemical compound used by the police to detect traces of blood, was used. Thanks to the samples taken from the car, in the home, in the garage and in the cellar, it was possible to confirm the sequence of events confessed by Giulia’s companion. A “very strong luminescence was noted in the trunk floor. It lasted more than two minutes.” Then, in the apartment, the floor of the room was free of traces of blood. This may be because at the time of the murder, everything had been “covered with a tarpaulin never found”. Also found were “bottles of ammonia and bleach, plastic bags and gloves”, materials to dispose of Giulia’s body.

The reconstruction, from murder to arrest

It was the afternoon of May 27, 2023 when Giulia Tramontano went to the Armani Hotel in Milan to meet the 23-year-old young woman with whom her companion, Alessandro Impagnatiello, had a relationship – according to the reconstruction of Il Giorno . At the end of the afternoon, after meeting the young woman, Giulia wrote to Alessandro to be found at home, probably to seek a confrontation.

But when she returns, Impagnatiello is waiting for her with a knife: in their house, he attacks her and kills her with several blows to the neck. Then, according to his statements during interrogation, he carried the body into the bathtub, trying to burn it. This attempt having failed, he transported Giulia’s body in the car box and, in the night, he left the house with his car from the garage to go visit his mistress and tell her that his companion “was no longer a problem “. However, the 23-year-old young woman sends him away.

At 3 a.m., Impagnatiello was filmed by cameras as he walked towards the car and, during interrogation, he claimed to have tried, at that time, to burn his partner’s body again.

Impagnatiello goes to work the next morning and, a few hours later, goes to the barracks with his mother to report Giulia missing. In the following days, he moved the body from the box to the cellar, then into the trunk of his own car. Finally, the corpse is left via Monte Rosa in Senago near his home. Before June 1, Impagnatiello confessed to the murder and, thanks to his instructions, the carabinieri found Giulia’s corpse.

The trial: the accusations and the defense

Milan deputy prosecutor Letizia Mannella and prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo requested a life sentence for Alessandro Impagnatiello, tried before the Assize Court. The former bartender is accused of willful murder aggravated by premeditation, cruelty, frivolous motives and for having killed his concubine. He must also answer for non-consensual termination of pregnancy and concealment of a corpse.

For the defense, Alessandro Impagnatiello committed “serious errors”, with “crude conduct implemented after the murder which is not compatible with this image of chess player, planner and strategist”. This is one of the passages in the plea of ​​lawyer Giulia Geradini during the trial of the former bartender for the murder of his fiancée Giulia Tramontano, seven months pregnant and killed with 37 stab wounds in their home in Senago in the Milanese.

Among the “errors” highlighted by the lawyer, there is also “totally disconnected post-murder conduct, with continuous movements of the corpse”. Lawyer Samanta Barbaglia, who defends Impagnatiello with her colleague, then spoke of a “predominant occasionality, as if – she said – destiny had set a trap for him”. The defense therefore excludes that there could be the aggravation of premeditation, as well as that of cruelty: “This manifests itself when there is a particular manifestation of aggressiveness, excessive conduct. But the behavior in this case is unitary because these blows follow one another with continuity. There are no signs of defense and she lost a lot of blood very quickly.”