On May 12, 1995, Andrea Matteucci picked up Albana Dakovi, a twenty-year-old Albanian prostitute, took her to Arnad in the Aosta valley, and killed her with blows from a wrench and stab wounds. Then, with her body hidden in his van, he drove to the police station at Saint-Pierre to sign the register. He was under a court order at the time. Stopped that April at the wheel of a stolen car, he had been spared prison but required to report to the police and forbidden to leave the stretch of valley between Arvier and Aosta. He signed, and later burned her remains, as he had burned the others.
He was born in Turin on April 24, 1962. His father left within months, and his mother, Maria Pandiscia, sent him to her sister Lina in Foggia until he was five. He said in custody that his mother had worked as a prostitute and made him witness her encounters, and that he killed to punish her. He grew up to live in the Aosta valley, married, had a son and worked as a stonemason.
On April 30, 1980, at eighteen, he killed Domenico Raso, a shopkeeper in Aosta who had wanted a sexual relationship with him. No one was charged. Twelve years passed before he killed again. By 1992 his marriage had broken down and he had begun going to prostitutes, and one evening at Brissogne he argued with Daniela Zago, from Turin, over the price, and shot her in the head. She was still alive and begged him to take her to a hospital. He said he would, drove her to an isolated spot and finished her, buried her body near Arvier, and a month later, afraid it would be found, dug it up and burned it at a dump.
In 1994 he met Clara Omoregbee, a Nigerian woman, at Chambave and took her to Arnad. After sex they argued, and he punched her and shot her twice, once in the head. He then committed necrophilia with her body, dismembered it in his kitchen, burned the remains at Arvier and threw what was left into the Dora Baltea river. On September 10 that year he tried to smother another woman, Lucy Omon, with a pillow and a rag. She broke free, got out of his van and told police about a man trying to kill women in a van with Padua plates.
It was Albana Dakovi's pimp who caught him. He had watched her get into an Iveco Daily van, took down the plate, and sent the number in an anonymous letter to the carabinieri at Pont-Saint-Martin. Matteucci was arrested on June 26, 1995. He denied killing her at first. The next day he admitted it, and confessed the other three killings with it.
A psychiatric examination found him socially dangerous and only partly capable of understanding and willing what he had done. On April 16, 1996, the Corte d'assise of Aosta sentenced him to twenty-eight years' imprisonment followed by three years in a judicial psychiatric hospital. The prosecutor, Pasquale Longarini, had asked for life and a further eighteen years for the 1980 killing of Raso. A contemporary report of the verdict said the court found him guilty of Dakovi's murder and the attempt on Lucy Omon; later accounts treat him as responsible for all four deaths, and they differ on how the other confessed killings were dealt with at trial and on appeal.
He left prison on March 9, 2017, at fifty-five, after almost twenty-two years, and went into a secure psychiatric facility rather than free; he had spent the last part of his sentence in a psychiatric hospital at Reggio Emilia. In 2022, in a therapeutic community, he met his son for the first time in twenty-five years and apologized to him. He is the only known serial killer from the Valle d'Aosta.