He was found naked, lying on the floor, his head in the refrigerator. A 65-year-old German, Joachim Radtke Horst, was found like this on the morning of Monday, August 26, after a colleague went to his villa in Rome, in the Fidene district, and raised the alarm. In the house, as he writes The MessengerNo signs of forced entry were found: the door was closed. The police are investigating all the hypotheses while waiting for the autopsy. The 65-year-old man had been unavailable by phone since the previous Saturday.
The discovery
This is why the colleague, from a car rental company where Horst was employed, had gone to his home on Monday, in via di Santa Colomba, inside the Marcigliana reserve. But when he received no answer at the doorbell, worried, he decided to call 118 around 10am. The emergency services and the police who entered the house could only confirm the man's death. An autopsy will now be carried out on Horst's body to clarify the cause of death. In the meantime, investigators have carried out initial inspections of the house and have found that there were no signs of a break-in or injuries on the body that would suggest a fight. It is believed that what killed the 65-year-old could also have been an illness that struck him while he was looking for fresh food in the refrigerator.
The previous one
According to what was reported by the colleague, the man lived alone in the villa where he had lived for years. A similar case occurred in early February. Italo Gatti, a 76-year-old retired teacher, was found lying on the ground a few months after disappearing from his home in Alberone. The police and firefighters found the mummified man due to the time that had passed since his death. The mobilization was triggered after the appeal launched by the condominiums to “Who saw this?” because they had not heard from him since July 2023. What made a lady suspicious was the amount of papers found in the victim's box: “When I came back from the summer holidays, I realized that Gatti's box was full of bills,” she reported during the investigation. broadcast.
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