(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 15 - A 46-year-old Italian man on Friday confessed to murdering his 73-year-old mother in her home near Taranto on Thursday night.
    Silvana La Rocca, originally from Saraceno (Cosenza) found lifeless in the garden of her small villa in Marina di Leporano with a deep wound to the abdomen.
    Her son, Salvatore D'Ettori, tracked down by the Carabinieri and taken to the provincial command for questioning, has reportedly confessed to having stabbed the woman and then fled.
    It is the latest in a spate of femicides in Italy. (ANSA).