The “murderous carer” is extradited from Malpensa

 Malpensa is a little like the door to Italy, through which some incredible stories also pass, like that of Miguel Angel Torres, one of the people most wanted by the US Police, who was discovered in Bologna, where he was working as a carer, looking after an elderly couple. The story ended up in many Italian newspapers and came to an end (at least on the Italian side) with Torres being sent back by the border Police at Malpensa, who handed him over to the US authorities.

Miguel Angel Torres was one of the men most wanted by US Marshalls, and was considered “armed and dangerous”; there was a reward of $25,000 on his head, as he was charged with killing, in September 2005, his wife Barbara, who had just obtained a restriction order against him. The woman’s body was discovered, with at least one gunshot to the back of the neck, in the car park of a supermarket in Pennsylvania, and her car was found a few kilometres away. The investigations led to concentrating on Torres, who, in the meantime, had completely disappeared. He was traced and arrested by Interpol, last March, in Bologna, where he had been hiding for at least two and a half years, under the false name Rondon Renè, a carer who was looking after a wealthy elderly couple in Bologna. In order to lose his tracks, he had even scraped his fingertips off, to prevent any fingerprint identification. It seems that, after the murder in the United States, he went to the Dominican Republic, where he bought a false identity and married a 75-year-old Italian woman, who he left before moving to Italy. Torres, who is awaiting trial for the murder of his wife, for which he risks two life sentences (one for the repeated acts of stalking and failing to respect the judges’ orders, and one for the murder itself), has already been sentenced to pay more than $40 million in compensation to the family of the murdered woman.