He killed her on the evening of August 15th, suffocating her in her apartment. Then he went to his home and took his own life. Tania Terrin, 39, died on Saturday evening at the hands of Dino Keber, 43, on his sofa in Camponogara, in the province of Venice.
The investigators are still reconstructing the various passages, but they have no doubts. The police found her yesterday evening, after her mother had knocked on her door for a long time, also trying to call her on the phone without receiving an answer. Meanwhile, a short distance away, in Dolo, his murderer was found hanged in his home.
Keber was known to the police and also had a specific precedent, an assault against his partner dating back to April, on which the Prosecutor's Office had opened proceedings for mistreatment and injuries after she reported it. Regarding the extent of that attack, some sources speak of a real attempt at strangulation: the woman had lost consciousness, gone to hospital and reported it. Certainly the Venice Police Commissioner had issued a warning in June, a preventive measure used for various cases, including conduct symptomatic of domestic violence.
After that episode in April, she sent a message to the neighbors: "If this person comes, don't open the door", complete with photos to make it clear who she could be talking about. It was on that occasion that she opened up to some other co-owner. "He said 'I often find him at my house'", says a neighbour. But then no other episodes of violence were recorded and, recently, the victim had stated that they had seen each other and spoken calmly with her ex. Also for this reason, it was difficult for the investigators to imagine the epilogue they faced last night. Not for the victim's mother, Marinella Forner, who spent the night in front of the entrance to her daughter's house, while the investigators continued to come and go. The attack in April was at least the third. "Seven or eight times we went to the police. My daughter also reported him. He had to stay away from her but then after a month at the most he would come back to show up. I felt, as a mother I was afraid that sooner or later something would happen - she says -. I ask the police to tell the women who report to pack their bags, to leave everything, the house and the job and to disappear. Because there is no other way to protect a woman who reports her ex-partner who harasses her".
The mother speaks: 'He had built a noose for some time and was showing it to my daughter'
Dino Keber, Tania Terrin's femicide-suicide "had long ago built a noose for himself with a rope, and every time my daughter left him he showed it to her by manipulating her, saying that he would kill himself". The victim's mother, Marinella Forner, says it when interviewed by Corriere del Veneto.
"Twenty days ago - said the woman - Dino had asked me to meet. Maybe I had to talk to him, I had to listen to him. My daughter forbade me. She told me 'Mom, don't try to get close to him'. My daughter liked him because he was sweet. She couldn't get him out of her head. They had even tried to live together, but things hadn't gone well. Then the first attack. He had thrown a punch at her, scratching her and hurting her eardrum. They separated, but Dino stayed away from her for a month at most, then he came back. She forgave him and started harassing her again. Messages, phone calls, scenes of jealousy, checking the phone, stalking. 'Look, I don't like the Taliban', I told him once.
Forner then remembers having reported Keber "seven or eight times: three for me, three for her to the police and two or three also for her father. There was also a warning from the police commissioner. Tania had convinced herself to sue him after the events that happened in April. It was Easter. He had convinced her to try again, it seemed to be going better and instead when Tania went to her house, Dino had tightened his hands around her neck so tightly that she lost I ask the police to tell the women who report the violence to immediately pack their bags, leave everything, their home, their job and disappear.
