Vincenzo Aiutino


Vincenzo Aiutino 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, plus 18 years of security period.

Biography

Vincenzo Aiutino was born in Switzerland on March 11, 1970. Vincenzo was neglected by his father, a mason from Sicily, who was married to someone else and living in Italy when Vincenzo was born.
Later on, the family moved to Belgium, where, in 1975, Vincenzo witnessed his father raping his 7-year-old sister, which may have profoundly impacted his understanding of sexuality.
Vincenzo Aiutino was fired 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, Vicenzo 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.
In July 1990 while he was serving time, he married Marie-Antoinette Calla, a divorcee 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 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 Aiutino, 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 her 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

Trial and conviction

On March 2, 1998, Vincenzo 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 5 years of detention with a possible release in 2011. In 2011, it was rumored that he was released, which was proven incorrect..
Aiutino assaulted several supervisors in Nancy Prison in November 1998. Consequently, he was sentenced to an additional five-months for these crimes.

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