Alessandro Venier: Mum Lorena murders son with shoelaces with help of his girlfriend Mailyn Castro Monsalvo
They were the two people he most trusted — but his mum and girlfriend killed him with his own shoelaces before chopping his body up and throwing the pieces in the bin.
Lorena Venier told police that she drugged and choked her 35-year-old son Alessandro Venier because he was abusing her and his Colombian girlfriend.
Mailyn Castro Monsalvo, who is the mother of Alessandro’s six-month-old child, admitted to helping the 61-year-old commit the brutal murder.
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She said that her son never worked and refused to help out around the house.
The plot to kill Alessandro was conceived when he started talking about moving from their home in Udine in Italy to Colombia.
“Mailyn was being beaten up, insulted and threatened many times with death,” Lorena told a court in August.
“My son downplayed the post-natal depression she was suffering from. Alessandro was violent, Mailyn’s life was in danger.
“I could not have allowed them to go to Colombia. Mailyn and the baby would have run very serious risks there.”
Lorena said “the only way to stop him was to kill him”.
So on July 25, Lorena and Mailyn spiked a glass of lemonade with a tranquiliser.
Alessandro drank it and Lorean then injected him with two doses of insulin, which she had taken from the hospital where she worked.
However, the overdose play did not work and with Alessandro still alive, they turned to another method of finishing him off.
They strangled him with his own bootlaces and smothered him with a pillow.
Lorena then used a hacksaw to chop his body into three pieces, initially throwing them in the bin before the smell got too much and they encased him quicklime.
The pair kept Alessandro’s disappearance secret for a week, hoping family, friends and neighbours would believe he had moved to South America.
Lorena has been charged with murder and concealing a body.
Mailyn is suspected of instigation to murder. Her baby has been taken into care.
Originally published on PerthNow
