He wanted to have total control over his wife's life. This is one of the elements that emerged during the investigation into the murder of Annarita Morelli , the 72-year-old killed Tuesday in Rome by her husband with a gunshot.

The couple was separating.

The man confessed: shortly after the crime he entered a tobacconist's, "I killed my wife", he said. He is now in prison in Rebibbia for voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation.

During a search of the man's house in Norcia, a series of audio recordings stored on about ten media were found. The material was acquired and will be analyzed but, according to what has emerged, among the many audio files there would also be conversations with the victim. Elements that would confirm the desire for control that the man had towards the woman. Bullying behavior also confirmed by the family members heard as people informed on the facts.

Domenico Ossoli, who had gone so far as to install a GPS device on the woman's car, did not accept the idea that the relationship was over. "I would rather kill her but not give her separation", the phrase he repeated in recent times announcing, in fact, what then on Tuesday morning became a dramatic and tragic reality.

In the arrest warrant, the prosecutor highlights the "evident intent to kill" of the man who attracted the woman by "shooting her at point-blank range with a firearm, as well as the evident incompatibility of what the coroner found regarding the non-intent to kill". On Tuesday morning, the man went to the area of Fonte Nuova, a municipality in the eastern part of the capital, with the "specific intent to shoot his wife" and "the cause of the femicide was the woman's desire to escape his obsessive control".

The man was also found in possession of a purse containing a 7.65 caliber Beretta ready for use: there were 8 rounds in the magazine but one bullet had already been fired to kill Annarita.