He was alive when he was thrown into the acid

The Rosa died for "the combined action of inhaling acid fumes and confinement inside the trash" where the body had been inserted to be melted. The note summarizing the investigations conducted by the Carabinieri of the homicide brigade of the investigative nucleus of the Milan Provincial Command, which today notified the two arrested Raffaele Rullo and his mother Antonietta Biancaniello

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From the expertise on the body, it appeared that the former footballer Brugherio is not dead for the wounds inflicted in the cellar of Via Cogne where he met his murderers, but choked by the acid fumes that should have made his corpse. Rullo lured him via Cogne with the excuse of presenting his mother, the two gave him two narcotics that completely stunned him allowing the mother and son to drag him into the cellars. Here they put it in the trash, they poured at least six bottles of acid and sealed everything with the duct tape. The neck injury that up to now was supposed to have determined the death of the 35-year-old man could have been inflicted on him while he was unconscious.

This body was later found by the carabinieri on December 14, 2017 in the car of the Biancaniello, who after keeping it in the garage of an acquaintance (also investigated for having aided not to report information about Rullo) was carrying it in his son's box to destroy it together using 24 vials of acid.