The Pavia Prosecutor's Office believes it has 21 pieces of evidence proving Andrea Sempio's guilt, enough to at least send the 38-year-old shop assistant, the only suspect in the new investigation into the Garlasco crime, to trial.
Many are clearly interrelated and address different aspects of the same research topics. Here they are grouped by key themes.
The phone calls to the Poggi house
Three calls to the Poggi home were made on August 7 and 8, 2007, a few days before the murder and when Sempio knew Chiara was home alone, as his friend Marco was in the mountains with his parents. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the 38-year-old lied when he said he didn't know Marco Poggi was on vacation; those calls were attempts to contact Chiara and approach the 26-year-old.
Intimate videos
In one of the soliloquies intercepted in the car, Sempio discusses the intimate videos Chiara had made with her boyfriend Alberto Stasi, which he allegedly obtained and which, watching, triggered his "unrequited attraction" to her. The clerk also mentions a USB stick containing the footage, and he mentions this before the existence of the flash drive surfaced in the media.
Money to pay the investigators of the first investigation
When he was investigated in the closed case, he "immediately took action," along with his father, to "raise money to pay the investigators." During the February 2017 interrogation, he lied "easily," having "become aware of the evidence against him."
DNA research and the 2014 Stasi trial
The evidence also includes web searches conducted by Sempio in 2014, during Alberto Stasi's second appeal trial. According to prosecutors, these searches revealed "particular interest and concern" regarding the DNA found on the victim's fingernails.
