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Annamaria “Annarella” Bracci

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Annamaria “Annarella” Bracci

Birth
Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Death
18 Feb 1950 (aged 12)
Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Burial
Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy Add to Map
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Murder Victim. Daughter of Marta Fiocchi and Riziero Bracci. Her mother had separated from her husband and to support herself she prostituted herself, while little Annarella tried to make up for her mother's absence by cooking, ironing and trying to earn some money with some little jobs. Annarella lived with her mother, her partner and her brother Mariano, who was disabled following a road accident. After being beaten by her mother, she leaves the house on February 18, 1950 to buy oil and coal to prepare dinner but she never returns. Spends the night, the hours and then the days before reporting her disappearance. The searches began on February 23, 1950 in the countryside and in the city. In early March, the child's paternal grandfather claims to have had an omen, Annarella is at the bottom of a well. The carabinieri began to search all the wells in the area and on the evening of March 3 the body of little Annarella is extracted out from a well 13 m deep with her skull smashed and without panties. The autopsy reveals that the little girl was the victim of an attempted rape, from which she was able to resist and that her tormentor smashed her head and threw her into the well still dying. The investigations focused in particular on the Bracci and Fiocchi family. The first accused is none of them, but Lionelli Egidi, a poor fellow accused of molesting some girls. During the first degree trial Egidi is acquitted for lack of evidence and for having an alibi, the night of the crime he was at home with his wife. Seventy years after this tragedy, the questions remain the same, even if over time, journalists and criminologists have tried to find answers. Many are convinced that the police looked for the killer in the wrong place and that it was neither Egidi nor a stranger who tried to rape Annarella, but someone very close to her. A public park named after her in 2011 was created near her home in the Primavalle district of Rome.
Murder Victim. Daughter of Marta Fiocchi and Riziero Bracci. Her mother had separated from her husband and to support herself she prostituted herself, while little Annarella tried to make up for her mother's absence by cooking, ironing and trying to earn some money with some little jobs. Annarella lived with her mother, her partner and her brother Mariano, who was disabled following a road accident. After being beaten by her mother, she leaves the house on February 18, 1950 to buy oil and coal to prepare dinner but she never returns. Spends the night, the hours and then the days before reporting her disappearance. The searches began on February 23, 1950 in the countryside and in the city. In early March, the child's paternal grandfather claims to have had an omen, Annarella is at the bottom of a well. The carabinieri began to search all the wells in the area and on the evening of March 3 the body of little Annarella is extracted out from a well 13 m deep with her skull smashed and without panties. The autopsy reveals that the little girl was the victim of an attempted rape, from which she was able to resist and that her tormentor smashed her head and threw her into the well still dying. The investigations focused in particular on the Bracci and Fiocchi family. The first accused is none of them, but Lionelli Egidi, a poor fellow accused of molesting some girls. During the first degree trial Egidi is acquitted for lack of evidence and for having an alibi, the night of the crime he was at home with his wife. Seventy years after this tragedy, the questions remain the same, even if over time, journalists and criminologists have tried to find answers. Many are convinced that the police looked for the killer in the wrong place and that it was neither Egidi nor a stranger who tried to rape Annarella, but someone very close to her. A public park named after her in 2011 was created near her home in the Primavalle district of Rome.

Gravesite Details

Buried in the noble chapel of Raniero Marsili.


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  • Created by: Ruggero
  • Added: Jan 4, 2022
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235547041/annamaria-bracci: accessed ), memorial page for Annamaria “Annarella” Bracci (15 Dec 1937–18 Feb 1950), Find a Grave Memorial ID 235547041, citing Cimitero Comunale Monumentale Campo Verano, Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Ruggero (contributor 47230849).