Garlasco case, investigation restarts from ten DNAs: this is how prosecutors try to rewrite history

The hunt for DNA and any new fingerprints to strengthen the case against Andrea Sempio, investigated for the murder (in complicity) of Chiara Poggi , and to find Unknown 2. The Pavia Prosecutor's Office is relying on science for a breakthrough in the crime of 13 August 2007 in Garlasco which, according to justice, already has a culprit: Alberto Stasi, the victim's boyfriend, has almost finished serving his final sentence of 16 years in prison.

After the false start of April 9th ​​and the recusal of the geneticist Emiliano Giardina, the preliminary investigations judge of Pavia Daniela Garlaschelli has put the seven questions in black and white and indicated , in agreement with the parties, the people who will have to undergo - with the formula of the evidentiary incident - the genetic analyses.

The list

The list of non-investigated people is made up of people who frequented Poggi's house or those who, among the first, entered the villa on Via Pascoli for rescue or for the first surveys. About ten names in total, including some who have already ended up in the spotlight. A list to avoid that in some time the finger can be pointed at others for a crime that has dragged on for 18 years .

Among the recipients of the new tests are the twins Stefania and Paola Cappa (indicated by the Stasi defense) , cousins ​​of the victim and who became famous for the photomontage in front of the cameras a few hours after the crime; Marco Panzarasa, the friend with whom Stasi spent a study holiday in London (from some photos he uses Stasi's computer also used by the victim); three friends of Marco (the victim's brother) including Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi recently searched in the investigation on Sempio. And also three carabinieri and a couple of rescuers. Excluding the Poggi family whose genetic heritage has already been in the hands of investigators for years.

The date

The first appointment is set in the Milan laboratories of the Scientific Police for next June 17 , when the geneticist Denise Albani and the fingerprint expert Domenico Marchigiani will meet with the consultants of the parties to establish whether those two partial DNA (male) found on Chiara Poggi's nails are usable, that is, they can provide scientifically credible results. It is on this aspect that the real battle is being played: for the prosecution and the defense of Stasi, one of the two genetic patrimonies is attributable to Sempio, while the second, so far unreadable, remains of an unknown man. So far all the experts involved in the Stasi trials have considered the genetic material unusable.

The Cappa cousins, the twins Stefania and Paola , who already provided their DNA in the first investigation that led to Stasi's conviction, will be subjected to fingerprint analysis , traces that could be recovered from some evidence (fruit, packet of biscuits, tea cartons) never analysed after the crime, but decontextualised from the crime scene.

Objects, including a fragment of the bathroom mat where the killer left the bloody imprint of his shoe, on which it will be necessary to choose whether to search for fingerprints or DNA: the reagents are different depending on the search and the chemical substance ends up 'contaminating' the object, geneticists explain. An element that makes a double search on the object impossible but that could be circumvented (hypothesis to be verified) by cutting the evidence.

The fingerprint analysis will not concern the prints found in the villa: of the 60 traces found at the Poggi house, 57 have a known name and surname. Only three are not attributed and these are traces found on the boxes of the two pizzas eaten the evening before by the engaged couple.

The answers

The time for the answers requested by the preliminary investigations judge of Pavia is long : three months for the official conclusions, while the court will return on October 24 to discuss the results of the expert reports. "It is clear that we are for the truth that has already been ascertained, we do not oppose the investigations that must be done also because we could not do it. We only hope that everything is read together with what was done before otherwise it would be useless work", the words of Gian Luigi Tizzoni, lawyer of Chiara Poggi's family.

Andrea Sempio waits "always calmly . He always tells me 'I have a clear conscience, the truth about me has already come out more than once, why shouldn't it come out this time too?'" explains lawyer Angela Taccia who, together with her colleague Massimo Lovati, defends the only suspect (already archived eight years ago) in this new investigation. "Broadening the investigation is positive - is the comment of Alberto Stasi's lawyer, Antonio De Rensis -. This is an important step but there will be others. We expect that this investigation can rewrite this story, Stasi lives this moment with great hope and with a little fear" he concludes.

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