The new advice of the Ris of Cagliari redesigns the crime scene: one killer, new traces of blood analyzed, imprints never considered before. But the Poggi case, eighteen years later, remains suspended
The advice of the RIS of Cagliari, 300 pages filed in the Prosecutor’s Office in Pavia, excluded the presence of a second killer in the murder of Chiara Poggi. According to the analysis of the Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, it was only one person to hit. A conclusion that denies the most recent hypotheses of the Prosecutor’s Office, who had investigated Andrea Semplio, friend of the victim’s brother, as a possible accomplice.
A different reconstruction since 2007
The specialists worked for weeks in the house in via Pascoli, reconstructing the scene with drones and 3D models. Compared to the report signed in 2007 by the then commander of the Ris of Parma Luciano Garofano, today defense consultant, the new exams have led to “different” results. Not only a more complete map of the traces of blood, but also the identification of elements never highlighted before.
The imprint in the blood: clue or contamination?
Among the novelties, the imprint of a hand remained impressed in a patch of blood at the base of the stairs emerges, never enhanced in the original expert reports. Already reported by Professor Francesco Maria Avato, at the time of the Defense Stasi consultant, today remains an enigma: did it belong to the murderer, to the victim or who intervened first on the scene? In fact, one of the carabinieri slipped into Chiara’s blood, and this makes it impossible to attribute the trace with certainty. Furthermore, the RIS report is secreted and will not be made available to the parties until the closing of the investigations, a detail that explains why only rumors emerge.
The knot of responsibilities
The deposited document does not indicate direct responsibilities, nor clarifies the most thorny question: Alberto Stasi, sentenced to 16 years, remains the only culprit recognized by justice, but the new investigation had pointed his gaze also on Semve. On him weighing the hypothesis that the DNA found under the nails of the victim, considered unusable at the time, can be attributable to his person.
The work of consultants
In the coming months it will be up to Cristina Cattaneo, anatomopathologist of internationally renowned, re -establishing the crime weapon, number and type of injuries. His advice must be integrated with that of the Ris and with the other elements collected by the Milan investigative unit. In parallel, the geneticist Denise Alban is examining the raw data of the old analyzes conducted on the nails of Chiara, already reassembled in the appeal process by Professor Francesco De Stefano, who however considered them unusable.
Latent imprints and new questions
The checks on the eight imprints of partial digital discoveries recently on two bags of garbage found on the morning of the crime are also open. They had never been isolated before and now they become a new investigative front. Six footprints on a bag of cereals, two on a garbage bag. “Unpublished” elements that will require further months of investigations.
The next procedural stages
The calendar is already set: on 26 September the judge Daniela Garlaschelli will bring together the parties for an update, while October 24 will be the moment of the final discussion on the technical investigations. It will then be that consultations, footprints, DNAs and reconstructions will be put on the table in a unitary framework.
A case that never closes
Eighteen years later, the crime of Garlasco remains a labyrinth. New technologies seem to have strengthened the initial hypothesis – only one killer – but the voids remain. The footprints, the DNA, the uncertainties on the early hours of investigation continue to weigh. The story is not just a judicial history: it is a wound that divides public opinion and that, at every new expertise, the same question reopens. Not those who killed Chiara Poggi – for justice we know – but if the truth that has been delivered to us is really the definitive one.
