Lucrezia Ciotti The body of the has been exhumed judge Francesca Ercolini, found dead in her home in Pesaro on December 26, 2022. The exhumation was ordered by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, which reopened the case file after new evidence emerged and the insistence of her family, who have always been convinced that suicide is not the only plausible explanation.
Death of Judge Francesca Ercolini, the body exhumed: six investigated, including her husband
Francesca Ercolini, 51 years old, judge of the Second Civil Section of the Court of Ancona, was found dead on December 26, 2022, hanged with a scarf in her home in Pesaro. The ///, initially filed as a suicide, was reopened following new elements that emerged during the investigation.
As part of the new investigation, conducted by the L'Aquila Prosecutor's Office, six people are under investigation, including the magistrate's husband, the lawyer Lorenzo Ruggeri, and the first coroner. The charges range from misdirection towards ideological falsehood, up to the violation of the secrecy of the investigation.
Already in the early stages of the investigation it was hypothesized that difficult family context, but the leads on mistreatment and instigation to suicide were shelved. The investigations, slowed down by internal disagreements within the Prosecutor's Office, have now restarted with searches, seizures and analyses on the family's electronic devices.
Judge Ercolini's suicide, body exhumed: new autopsy ordered
La Salma of Judge Francesca Ercolini has been transferred to Policlinico Umberto I of Rome, where a new autopsy will be performed on Saturday. The task was entrusted by the judge for preliminary investigations to Professor Vittorio Fineschi, coroner, who will operate with the support of two other specialists. At the same time, the Carabinieri of the RIS of Rome were delegated to reconstruction of the death scene, which took place in the magistrate's apartment located between Viale Zara and Viale Battisti, in Pesaro.