A58-year-old Italian woman with a criminal record for petty theft on Tuesday confessed to killing and 89-year-old Trieste resident after the latter caught her stealing money from her home.
Erika Podmenich, from Trieste, told police she had first strangled Isabella Tregnaghi with a scarf and then cut her throat in a fight after she was surprised stealing cash and valuables in Tregnaghi's house in the northeastern Italian port city.