page_title: Andrea Matteucci
section_title: Murders
hierarchical_section_title: Andrea Matteucci / Murders
caption_attribution_description: Villeneuve - Aosta Valley - Italy - Photo take by Perrier Valter
context_page_description: Andrea Matteucci, known as the "Monster of Aosta", is an Italian criminal and serial killer who committed four murders in the 1980s and 1990s.
context_section_description: On the evening of 30 April 1980, when he left home, Matteucci met the merchant Domenico Raso at the Roman Theatre of Aosta. The man, secretly a homosexual, made sexual advances and to defend himself, Matteucci killed him with a boy scout's knife. Raso had a family, and this led Andrea to believe that he had done the right thing because "a man can not do certain things": his mental state was altered, believing that those who have family and engage in extramarital sexual acts do not deserve to live.
  Matteucci was not discovered by the investigators and a few months after the crime he left for military service, during which he asked to enter the Folgore in Livorno. He left in 1983, with the rank of major corporal. In the same year, he got married and settled in Villeneuve, where he found a job as a shop assistant in a grocery store. In 1987, he had his first child and started working as a stonemason, first under various firms and then in his own workshop in Arvier. Meanwhile, his relationship with his wife began to deteriorate.
  One evening in 1992, Matteucci met Turin prostitute Daniela Zago in Brissogne. The two had a quarrel while having sex, resulting in Andrea shooting her in the head. Zago did not die immediately and asked Matteucci to take her to the hospital; he pretended to accept her plea, before taking her to an isolated location where he shot her in the head again, killing her. He then buried the corpse not far from the crime scene, in Arvier. After a month, fearing that the remains can be discovered, he dug them up and burned them at a landfill.
  In 1994, he met the Nigerian prostitute Clara Omoregbee in Chambave, engaging in sexual intercourse with her near Arnad. Not satisfied with the performance, Matteucci argued with her, hit the woman with his fists and killed her by shooting her twice, once in the head. After this, he had sex with her corpse. Back home, he dissected the corpse with a kitchen knife, after having burnt the remains in Arvier, throwing them into the Dora Baltea river near Villeneuve.
  On 10 September 1994, while searching for victims in Nus, Matteucci met prostitute Lucy Omon and took her home. After having sex with her, he promised to take her back to Nus by car; instead he took her to Arvier, to his old stonemason's workshop, where he tried to suffocate her with a pillow and a rag. Omon managed to escape from the car.
  In 1995, he was convicted of car theft. Taking advantage of the benefit that he was not incarcerated, but it was imposed on him that he had an obligation to sign in Saint-Pierre and being forbidden to move outside of the perimeter between Arvier and Aosta. On 12 May 1995 he killed Albanian prostitute Albana Dakovi. After having sexual intercourse with her, Matteucci took her to Arnad, where he killed her by hitting her with a wrench and then stabbing her. He then hid the body in his van, with which he then went to Saint-Pierre to sign the register. Like the previous victims, Dakovi's remains were burned.
caption: Villeneuve and the bridge over the Dora Baltea from which the ashes of prostitute Clara Omoregbee were thrown
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