Simona Cuscunà, 47 years old, originally from Ferruzzano, wife of Franco Fava, the 55-year-old construction worker, father of two 14-year-old twin daughters, who died in his home in Stignano, a hilly town in Locride, on the evening of August 15th, was arrested. The death may have been caused by severe trauma to the back of the head, although the magistrates of the Locri Prosecutor’s Office and the Carabinieri of the Roccella Ionica Company are awaiting the outcome of the autopsy to be certain. At the moment there doesn’t seem to be any certain data on the dynamics either, even if according to a first hypothesis the two were arguing. Fava sustained the serious head injury by falling on the kitchen floor of the house during a prolonged and heated argument with his 47-year-old wife. Investigators are now trying to reconstruct the reason for the fall, whether it was accidental or caused by a push from the woman or for a different cause. The hypothesis of a blow received from a blunt object would be excluded.
The man, after hitting the floor, lost consciousness almost immediately, dying in a few minutes to the point that the rescue attempts by the medical and paramedical staff of 118 who were alerted by the neighbors alarmed by the particularly heated tones of the argument were in vain. According to what was learned, the wife did not make any statements to investigators and magistrates while her daughters, who were in the house, did not witness the fall. After the initial findings and findings, however, the prosecutors ordered the woman to be arrested for precautionary purposes while the couple’s home was seized. The two daughters, after receiving assistance from social services, were temporarily entrusted to some of the spouses’ relatives.