"We didn't kill Serena, it wasn't us." Anna Maria Mottola reiterated this before the judges of the Court of Assizes of Cassino, accused with her husband Franco, former marshal of Arce, and her son Marco, of the murder of Serena Mollicone , killed on 1 June 2001 in the small town in province of Frosinone.

At the stand with the three there are also the marshal Vincenzo Quatrale accused of complicity in murder and the constable Francesco Suprano who is contested for aiding and abetting.

The woman substantially reiterated what her son had already declared on 11 May. Referring to the door of the Arce barracks where according to the accusation the victim was thrown and sent back unconscious , the defendant said she "did not notice that it had been removed that evening, I did not pay attention to the fact that it had been removed".

According to the prosecutors, Serena was shot while she was in the barracks. There she fell unconscious due to some skull fractures and was left in that condition for a period of four to six hours, before dying from the adhesive tape that was applied to her mouth and nose causing her to suffocate .

The case of the 19-year-old's murder, initially filed without guilty, was reopened in 2016 with the exhumation of the girl's body and with new surveys carried out in the Arce barracks. Tests that have sanctioned the turning point in the investigation giving the investigators the certainty that Serena was killed in the barracks .