A 48-year-old Naples man who
confessed to murdering four elderly cancer patients said he did
so out of "mercy and compassion".
Mario Eutizia, who told cops this week he had killed four
patients in their late 80s and mid 90s by upping their dose of
painkillers to lethal levels, said he had wanted to "bring them
to a sweet death".
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.
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