The remains of the brothers,Francesco and Salvatore Pappalardi, have been discovered at the bottom of an 18 metre well in Gravina, Southern Italy. The bodies were discovered by accident after firefighters rescued a teenager who had fell down the disused well, breaking both legs. Filippo Pappalardi has been charged with their murders, whilst maintaining his innocence. He has been held in custody since NOvember. The boys have been missing since June 2006. Police found that the bodies were both in foetal positions, one boy with his thumb in his mouth. A police spokesman said that it ‘suggests that it is very likely that they were both alive for a while in the well before they died.’ The boys’ mother, Rosa Carlucci, said that she had had a dream that her boys were down a well, but she never dreamed that it ‘would be this close’.