A computer never found in the first searches, a ticket with suspicious notes and bank accounts that open unexpected scenarios. Eighteen years later, Chiara Poggi’s murder continues to produce partial shadows and truths
The crime of Garlasco has become, over time, much more than a Cold Case. It is an enigma that has already had a definitive sentence – the one that condemned Alberto Stasi – but who does not stop producing shocks. The Prosecutor of Pavia, with the new investigation involving Andrea Semplio, has chosen a clear road: not leaving areas of shadow, even at the cost of reopening wounds that seemed closed.
The calendar is clear: the hearing for the conclusion of the evidentiary accident is set for December, but the investigations continue to stratify themselves day after day. And the feeling is that each search adds a chapter, instead of closing one.
The return home and the “ghost pc”
Andrea Semplio, who returned to live from his parents after years later, ended up at the center of attention again. In May, investigators had already rummaged in that home, finding USB and hard-disk sticks. But in September more has sprung up: a “ghost” computer, does not emerge during the first search, and which now becomes the new object of the mystery.
According to what was declared, it would be a corporate PC, provided to him by the company for which he works. Nothing strange, on paper. But Garlasco’s investigation has accustomed us to be wary of linear explanations. That computer has been seized, and it will soon be analyzed: files, history, accesses, everything will be sifted. Because in a story where every detail overturns, even a laptop can become a detonator.
A ticket that opens disturbing scenarios
The computer is not the only element collected in the last round of searches. On a leaflet, at home, two words appeared: “storage” and “venditti”. Not a recent detail. Because it is from there that the bank investigations on the Semplio family started, culminating in the discovery of suspicious movements on the accounts.
And this is how, as in a domino, the Pavese investigation has intertwined with the Brescia one. The former prosecutor Mario Venditti ended up under investigation, accused of unclear relationships with the Semia family. And the searches have expanded to involve two judicial police officers of the time.
The defense of Spoto and the chain of suspicions
Among the names returned on stage there is that of Giuseppe Spoto, Marshal of the Carabinieri at the forefront of the 2007 investigations. He has strongly rejected any charge: “I never took money from the semium family, I would never have done it”. But the simple fact that his name has re -emerged a lot of the climate that hovers around this new vein: nobody seems sheltered, not even those who were on the other side of the investigation table.
Eighteen years of silences and new truths
The murder of Chiara Poggi, on August 13, 2007, marked Italy. And it continues to do it. Eighteen years later, time seems to have not canceled anything, on the contrary: every new discovery reopens old questions and adds new cracks. For the law, there is a culprit: Alberto Stasi, definitively sentenced. But for society, for newspapers, for those who still seek consistency between the facts, the feeling is that the story is incomplete.
That’s why the Pavia prosecutor wants to go all the way. To try to write the word “fine” on a case that has so far only had the ability to return to the surface.
The question that remains suspended
So, eighteen years later, the scene is this: a computer seized, a ticket that weighs more than one hundred pages of minutes, and an investigation that widens like a circle in the water.
But the center always remains the same: what really happened to Chiara Poggi that morning of August? A question that has not yet found an answer, and that continues to keep Italy with suspended breath.
