Vincenzo Aiutino

Vincenzo Aiutino (born March 10, 1970) is a French serial killer nicknamed "the man with the fifty affairs". Convicted of three murders which occurred in the Longwy commune, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 6, 1998, including 18 years of a security period, that did not allow him to apply for parole.

Vincenzo Aiutino
Born (1970-03-10) March 10, 1970
Zofingen, Switzerland
Other names"The man with the fifty affairs"
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment
Details
Victims3
Span of crimes
1991–1992
CountryFrance
State(s)Lorraine
Date apprehended
February 26, 1992
Imprisoned atMaison centrale d'Ensisheim

Biography

Vincenzo Aiutino was born in Switzerland on March 11, 1970. Aiutino was neglected by his father, a mason from Sicily, who was married to someone else and living in Italy at the time of Aiutino's birth.[1] Later, the family moved to Belgium.[2] In 1975, Aiutino witnessed his father raping his 7-year-old sister, which may have profoundly impacted his understanding of sexuality.

Aiutino was fired from his job and admitted to a psychiatric institution in 1985 after exposing himself to a woman while working at a construction site in Belgium. In 1986, he abandoned his studies and left school. As a teenager, Aiutino's criminal sexual impulses grew more pronounced. At the age of 18, he was charged with sexual assault of a minor, and at 19, imprisoned for robbery with violence.[3]

In July 1990,[4] he married Marie-Antoinette Calla, a divorcée with a young son.

Crimes and investigation

On August 6, 1991, a 20-year-old commercial attaché, Isabelle Le Nénan, left a colleague in Longwy-Haut to dine with a friend. Once she reached the parking lot of the Auchan hypermarket in Mont-Saint-Martin, she was approached by an unknown man, who lured her back to a construction site under the pretense of helping him carry a heavy object. There, Aiutino exposed himself and tried to rape her. A few months later, two hunters discovered a nude body in the woods of Turpange in an advanced state of decomposition. The autopsy of the Le Nénan, identified primarily by the jewelry on her corpse, revealed that she died of a skull fracture from a blow by an iron bar.

On September 13, 1991, Isabelle Christophe, a 21-year-old cashier at the Auchan hypermarket in Mont-Saint-Martin, was also approached by Aiutino. He led her to the cellar on his building site under the same pretense of helping him lift a heavy object, where he raped, strangled, and murdered her by beating her with an iron rod. While the murder was originally considered a possible suicide by a runaway, police soon began investigating the death as a sexual crime after reviewing the files of sex offenders in the region. This led them to investigating four men, one of whom was Aiutino, who at the time worked as a mason at a construction site near the hypermarket. On December 2, 1991, inspectors from the regional police in Nancy questioned him, but due to a lack of evidence, they released him after 10 hours in custody.

On February 25, 1992, Aiutino punctured the tire of Bernadette Bour, a medical sales representative of 40 years, and was helping her repair it. Aiutino then offered Bernadette a place to wash her hands, which allowed him to lead her to the basement on the premise. Aiutino followed her, attempted to rape Bour, and then beat her to death with an iron rod. He disposed of her body in Allondrelle-la-Malmaison near his home on Joseph Labbé street. Police did not immediately investigate the crime, enabling Aiutino to flee.

The Belgian police later arrested Aiutino at his father's house in Aubange. Aiutino initially confessed to the crimes, but then retracted his confession and accused his father, Domenico. This delayed Aiutino's extradition to France, where penalties were more severe. Aiutino was finally extradited to France in 1993, where he then accused his brother of the three murders.

List of victims
Murder Discovery Identity Age Activity / Profession
Date Place Date Place
August 6, 1991 Parking lot of the Auchan on Mont-Saint-Martin October 21, 1991 Turpange Forest Isabelle Le Nénan 20 Commercial attaché at Bis agency
September 13, 1991 Longwy February 28, 1992 Turpange Forest Isabelle Christophe 21 Refurbisher at the Auchan grocery
February 25, 1992 Longwy February 1992 Woods of Allondrelle-la-Malmaison Bernadette Bour 40 Medical Visiter

Trial and conviction

On March 2, 1998, Aiutino was tried before the cour d'assises of Meurthe-et-Moselle in Nancy. Psychiatric experts diagnosed him as an incurable psychopath and fully responsible for his actions. Aiutino confessed only to the murder of Bour and was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 6, 1998, with a minimum term of 18 years. By the end of the trial, he served five years of detention with a possible release in 2011. In 2011, it was rumored that he was released, which was proven incorrect.[5]

Aiutino assaulted several supervisors in Nancy Prison in November 1998. Consequently, he was sentenced to an additional five months for these crimes.[6]

References
  1. LIVRE-LITTERATURE, AU DETOUR D'UN. "Vincenzo Aiutino, le plus jeune tueur en série de France". Psycho-Criminologie (in French). Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  2. "Murder of three women: man accused" Article published on March 3, 1998, in Le Télégramme
  3. "Meurtre de trois femmes : un accusé déchiré". Le Telegramme (in French). 1998-03-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  4. "The elusive disappearances of Longwy" Article by Guy Feller, Henry Pieczak and Jean-Claude Hauck published February 29, 1992 in L'Est républicain.
  5. "No, Aiutino has not been released" Article by Patrick Jacquemot published February 18, 2011 in L'Essentiel
  6. "Vincenzo Aiutino, the killer of the country's top women" Article published on September 10, 2013, in L'Est républicain

Press articles

TV documentaries
  • "Vincenzo Aiutino, the man with 50 affairs" in February 2010 and May 2011 in Get the Accused presented by Christophe Hondelatte on France 2.
  • "Vincenzo Aiutino case: the missing of Longwy" (first report) on March 10, 2018, in Chroniques criminelles on TFX.

Radio show
  • "The case of Vincenzo Aiutino" February 20, 2018 in The Double Hour of Jacques Pradel on RTL.

See also
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