Garlasco, the new Bpa report reverses the dynamics: the staircase would be the place of the attack. And the murderer remains only one
Chiara Poggi and her family are still far from finding peace, eighteen years after the crime. That tidy house on Via Pascoli, which became the scene of a domestic horror on 13 August 2007, continues to yield clues and mysteries. After convictions, acquittals and a final ruling by the Supreme Court which found Alberto Stasi guilty, today a new report from the RIS of Cagliari turns the crime scene on its head again. And he discovers, in fact, yet another Pandora’s box.
The staircase is the location of the crime
The Bpa (Bloodstain Pattern Analysis) report, filed on September 16, 2024 and based on 3D laser technology and advanced photogrammetry, denies previous reconstructions: the violence would not have occurred in the living room, but on the stairs leading to the basement, where Chiara was found pours into a pool of blood.
The explosive detail is the big one stain at the base of the scalephotographed by the Stasi defense a month after the crime and for years dismissed as a simple post-mortem drip. Now it becomes one of the queen tests: it was there that the fatal attack took place. Blood screenings indicate repeated hits, and Bpa introduces the possibility of a “third attack”with splashes between the third and fifth steps consistent with a further blow as the victim was dragged downwards.
A mysterious footprint
According to the Fourth Degree investigation, Inside the bloodstain appears what might appear to be a handprint. A detail that the RIS of 2007 discarded as an “optical illusion”, but which now returns to the center of the debate. It is therefore legitimate to ask: is it the murderer’s hand? When would she be left? And above all: whose is it?
But thereScience is holding back investigative enthusiasm for the moment: no digital line is recognisablethe proportion of the fingers would be anomalous and the presence of Chiara’s hair along the trace would suggest blood splashes and not a real footprint. The General Garofanoauthor of the 2007 Bpa, cuts it short: «That is a non-existent hand, is suggestive, but that is the diffusion of Chiara’s blood which it absolutely does not have the dimensions, the proportions of a bloody footprint”.
Only one killer
The new report confirms that the dynamics indicate a single attacker, excluding the hypothesis of accomplices or the fascinating but frightening one of an «Orient Express style murder» (all the suspects are guilty). But if there is only one killer, who is he? Alberto Stasi, already convicted, or Andrea Sempio, the main suspect? Or someone who has never been suspected until now? Questions that, at least for now, remain such, without any certainty. The Garlasco crime has – to date – a total of 107 traces analysed, 78 still to be classified, 28 potentially comparable fragments and 8 useful fingerprints. In short, there is still much, too much left to discover.
