Warning: This article contains details of violent crime which some readers may find distressing.
New details have surfaced following a teenager’s confession to stabbing his family to death in their Milan home.
The 17-year-old boy has admitted to killing his father, 51, his mother, 48, and his 12-year-old brother on September 1.
According to prosecutors, the boy first entered his brother’s room and stabbed him while he was asleep.
His mother rushed in upon hearing her younger son cry out, and the teen then attacked her with the 20cm knife.
The father, unaware that his son was the assailant, shouted for help.
But instead of helping, the boy stabbed his father before he could grasp what was happening.
The 17-year-old allegedly informed the police: “I stabbed dad while he was yelling at me to call for help.”
He further explained: “I thought one stab would be enough to kill, then I realized it wasn’t like that.”
The teenager stabbed his father multiple times in the neck, allegedly stating he didn’t want his family ‘to suffer’.
Reports state that he then called the police and confessed, saying: “I killed my dad, come.”
Upon their arrival, police found the teenager sitting on a wall outside, covered in his family’s blood.
Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that there were 68 stab wounds in total, primarily around the victims’ necks.
Before the murders, the teen had reportedly been repeatedly listening to The Beatles’ song ‘The Long and Winding Road’.
He allegedly told police that he felt like an outsider in his family, saying: “There is no real reason why I killed them. I felt like a foreign body in my family. Oppressed.
“I thought that by killing them all I would free myself from this discomfort.”
However, the teenager reportedly admitted that shortly after the act, he realized this was untrue.
He claimed: “I realized it a minute later. I understood that it was not by killing them that I would be freed.”
The murders have left Italy in shock, with sociologist Massimo Crepet telling Italian paper Il Messaggero that the family unit was ‘shattered’, adding: “On Saturday night half of Italy doesn’t know where their children are.”
The Times reported that Milan juvenile prosecutor Sabrina Ditaranto stated she could see ‘no real motive’.
During a news conference, she said: “The boy understood that he had done something irreversible, he expressed his own discomfort, not related to the family.
“From a judicial point of view we do not have a technically valid motive. From a sociological and psychological point of view obviously the investigations are open.”
Ditaranto added: “He does not give a logical and coherent explanation for what happened.”
The father of one of the 17-year-old’s classmates commented: “They were a fantastic, happy family. It’s impossible, I don’t know what could have happened.
“He went to school with my daughter, elementary and middle school, we vacationed together, I saw the father a month ago for the last time.
“We spent good days together in the past.”