<p>Michele Misseri admitted to killing his niece Sarah Scazzi 41 days after she disappeared in the Puglia region.<br /><br />Misseri, 53, on Wednesday broke down during a 15-hour interrogation and confessed to killing his niece who went missing Aug 26. <br /><br />An autopsy on her “unrecognisable” decomposed body showed signs of rape after her death, according to investigators in the city of Taranto.<br /><br />“I strangled her with a cord while I was behind her and I raped her after she was dead,” he told investigators, according to unnamed sources close to the probe, who said the crime occurred in Misseri’s garage.<br /><br />“This person confessed to killing the girl and he told us where to find find her,” said Taranto investigator Franco Sebastio. <br /><br />The victim’s mother Concetta Serrano Spagnolo was on Wednesday appearing on a live national television show that aims to solve missing people and murder cases when she learned that police had located her daughter’s body.</p>
<p>Michele Misseri admitted to killing his niece Sarah Scazzi 41 days after she disappeared in the Puglia region.<br /><br />Misseri, 53, on Wednesday broke down during a 15-hour interrogation and confessed to killing his niece who went missing Aug 26. <br /><br />An autopsy on her “unrecognisable” decomposed body showed signs of rape after her death, according to investigators in the city of Taranto.<br /><br />“I strangled her with a cord while I was behind her and I raped her after she was dead,” he told investigators, according to unnamed sources close to the probe, who said the crime occurred in Misseri’s garage.<br /><br />“This person confessed to killing the girl and he told us where to find find her,” said Taranto investigator Franco Sebastio. <br /><br />The victim’s mother Concetta Serrano Spagnolo was on Wednesday appearing on a live national television show that aims to solve missing people and murder cases when she learned that police had located her daughter’s body.</p>