Daughters of the lawyer Ermanno Cappa and Mariarosa Poggi, sister of Chiara’s father, the twins Paola and Stefania Cappa are the first degree cousins of Chiara Poggi. At the time of the crime of Garlasco, they were just over 18 years old and, although they were never formally investigated, new elements and testimonies rekindled the media and investigative interest in them. At eighteen years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, which took place on August 13, 2007 in Garlasco, the case returns to be talked about. And the investigations, reopened in 2025, reported attention to previously marginal figures, including the “twins K”.
A bond of blood and shadows
Stefania and Paola Cappa are daughters of Mariarosa Poggi, sister of Giuseppe Poggi, Chiara’s father. The three girls were therefore first -grade cousin, grown within the same family fabric, in a bourgeois and reserved context of the Pavia province. At the time of the crime, in the summer of 2007, the twins were just over eighteen. They were at the beginning of their adulthood, just overlooking the world, and as Chiara – who had twenty -six years old – moved between universities, first professional projects and emotional dynamics still immature.
Despite the relationship of kinship, according to what was reconstructed by the testimonies collected in the months following the murder, the relationships between the cousins were not particularly close. There were no striking quarrels, but not even that solid complicity that sometimes unites the younger branches of a family. However, some sources indicated that, in the months preceding the tragedy, Chiara and Stefania had attempted a rapprochement. They had exchanged some message, they had seen themselves on family occasions with greater opening. An approach, this, which raised questions when the case exploded and the law enforcement officers began to slide the victim’s personal relationships.
During the early stages of the investigation, some rumors emerged – never confirmed – on episodes of tension, small disagreements, misunderstandings. Someone spoke of jealousies, latent rivalries, perhaps linked to the comparison between life choices or attentions within the family unit. But everything remained in the ground of the suggestions, of the elusive intuitions. No concrete tests, no solid clues led to involve the twins directly. Formally unrelated to the investigation, however, they were carefully observed by the investigators and scrutinized persistently by the press reflectors.
A subtle shadow seemed to follow them, fueled more by the unsaid than by the facts. A shadow that, after years, has never completely stopped re -emerging, every time the name of Garlasco returns to the center of the news.
Photomontage and media attention
A few days after the murder, the Cappa twins showed up in front of the house in via Pascoli with a bouquet of flowers and framed photography. In the image, Chiara smiled next to them, as in a pose of family affection and complicity. But soon it emerged that it was a photomontage. The lights and shadows on the faces did not match, the context was postponed. A technical detail that, however, had a huge symbolic weight: why simulate a closeness, why artificially create a memory?
The gesture, instead of generating empathy, raised a wave of perplexity. The press, already fallen en masse in Garlasco, took the opportunity. The twins ended up at the center of the public narrative: first as a cousin of the victim, then as ambiguous figures. It appeared on TV, photographed while putting in front of the closed gate of the crime house. The atmosphere was loaded with suspicions, hypotheses, insinuations.
In the following days, we tried to dampen the clamor. One of the two wrote a brief testimony that appeared in a magazine, trying to explain the origin of that photograph: a holiday, a family memory. But the contradictions soon emerged, even among the declarations made within the same nucleus. The father of the girls distances himself from the article, stating that he had not been authorized. Another version, still different, circulated for a few days. But now public opinion had formed its judgment.
Despite everything, the authorities did not recognize useful elements to proceed with formal investigations against them. Figures remained in the background, touched by the case, but never directly involved. Yet that image – a snapshot that was not real – remained impressed in the collective memory, as an emblematic fragment of a mystery never completely resolved.
The new investigations and rhepert tracksAnd
In 2025, the Pavia prosecutor’s office reopened the investigations on the murder of Chiara Poggi, focusing on new tracks and testimonies. One of the novelties concerns the discovery of a hammer in a tromel channel, near the house of the grandmother of the Cappa twins. This discovery has rekindled the interest on them, although no concrete evidence of their involvement emerged. In addition, about 200 messages from Stefania Cappa were deposited, dating back to the time of the crime. These messages could offer new investigative ideas, but at the moment it is not clear if they contain relevant information for the case.
Today’s lives
Stefania Cappa, today 41 years old, has embarked on a career in the legal sphere, following in the footsteps of the father. After graduating in Law from the University of Pavia in 2009, he obtained a Master in Criminal Criminal Law. Currently, he is a criminal lawyer and sport, collaborating with the family law firm in Milan. He is a member of the disciplinary commission of various Coni federations and has participated in events and conferences in the sports sector. In 2017, he married Emanuele Arioldi, riding and heir champion of Annina Rizzoli, in a ceremony in Cassano d’Adda.
Paola Cappa, on the other hand, followed a different path, dedicating herself to the world of food and lifestyle. He works as a content creator and food blogger. Through his social channels, he shares recipes, fashion advice and lifestyle, collaborating with different gastronomic magazines.
