Killer carer confirms the murders to GIP

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 26 - A 48-year-old Italian carer confirmed to a preliminary hearings judge (GIP) Monday that he had killed four elderly cancer patients and had done so as mercy killings.
    Mario Eutizia, who has been in prison in Santa Maria Capua Vetere since Thursday 22 August on charges of multiple murder, did not speak of any other deaths caused among the approximately thirty elderly people he cared for over the last ten years.
    He reiterated that he had killed out of compassion and pity.
    Eutizia, who is ill and physically exhausted, appeared before the GIP, Alessandra Grammatica, for a hearing to validate his detention.
    The alleged mercy killings took place in Latina south of Rome (two cases), at Casoria near Naples, and in the Campanian area of Cilento in recent years, Eutizia told Carabinieri in Caserta Thursday.
    He said his aim was to bring them "gently" towards death, "driven by a deep compassion and pity for them", as they were very old and seriously ill.
    Prosecutors said Saturday they were trying to identify the two cases in Latina after Eutizia said he could not remember their names because he allegedly killed them some 10 years ago.
    The other two alleged mercy killings took place a few months ago, police said: 89-year-old Luigi Di Marzo, who died at Casoria (Naples) last December; and 96-year-old Gerardo Chintemi, who died at Vibonati (Salerno) in Cilento last March.
    (ANSA).