Adnkronos Milan, March 20 (Adnkronos) – The swabs stored in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pavia, the fingerprint strings taken in the villa on Via Pascoli in Garlasco and already analyzed by the RIS of Parma but which in light of the new kits for detecting DNA could provide new elements on the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed on August 13, 2007 and for whose crime her then boyfriend Alberto Stasi was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison.
These are the elements on which the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office is attempting new investigations - authorization is up to the investigating judge - in the investigation that sees Andrea Sempio, a friend of the victim's brother, under investigation for murder, already archived by the same prosecutor's office eight years ago. In particular, from what we learn and in light of the press release signed by the prosecutor Fabio Napoleone, the starting hypothesis is that the DNA found on Chiara Poggi's nails is compatible with that of the suspect and that it derives from direct contact between the two; both conclusions are however denied by the expert report that led to Stasi's conviction.
It is a DNA that indicates the Y chromosome, so it will not be possible to arrive at a certain identification, furthermore the genetic trace is obviously not datable. The aim of the Prosecutor's Office is to re-analyze - with the formula of the evidentiary incident, therefore in the presence of Sempio's consultants and the Poggi family - all the prints that have not been attributed to the carabinieri, rescuers or family members or that in any case do not find a logical explanation and to understand if Sempio is also on objects touched by the killer. The attention of the investigators is focused on the cellar door, certainly closed by the killer to hide Chiara Poggi's body. The door, as those who carried out the investigations recall, was dismantled and taken to the laboratories of the RIS in Parma but no usable prints were found.
Other traces that were decisive in the conviction of Alberto Stasi were those found on the soap dispenser in the bathroom where the murderer washed himself according to the conviction (or looked at himself in the mirror only for the Prosecutor's Office). The dispenser was destroyed (as happens in cases of final trials) but the adhesive tapes that certainly captured Stasi's fingerprints remain, as well as other overlapping traces that have never been given a name.
Stasi's footprints, along with the bloody shoes (size 42) on the bathroom mat (where new DNA will be searched), were among the elements that led to the conviction. Unless the number of the footprint is changed, as confirmed by an expert opinion, it becomes difficult to place Sempio on the scene since he is wearing a shoe size 44.
Once the material on Chiara Poggi's nails has run out, only the swabs and little else remain at the University of Pavia. And the destruction of the evidence or the return of valuables to the victim's family also works against the investigation. Even the bracelets (returned together with a necklace, earrings and cell phone) that the twenty-six-year-old was wearing when she was killed were analyzed by the RIS immediately after the murder and that attempt also proved to be a dead-end road.