After a year of investigations, consultations, and an expert report ordered through an evidentiary hearing, the Pavia Prosecutor's Office has concluded its investigation into Chiara Poggi's murder , suggesting a reconstruction far removed from the one set out in the sentence with which Alberto Stasi, the victim's ex-boyfriend, is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence.
Deputy Prosecutor Stefano Civardi, along with prosecutors Valentina De Stefano and Giuliana Rizza, served notice of the conclusion of the investigation against Andrea Sempio, a longtime friend of the victim's brother, who was described as "hostile" and engaged in " constant official defense " by the current clerk at a telephone exchange. On the morning of August 13, 2007, it was he, not Stasi, who killed Chiara with hatred and cruelty, as the two aggravating circumstances allege. He allegedly broke into the Garlasco house, taking advantage of the door being ajar or unlocked—he had turned off the alarm to let the cats out into the garden—to sneak in and attack the 26-year-old. He claimed he was guilty of only one crime: having rejected his sexual advances with a curt, "I don't want to talk to you." Based on the results of the BPA, the analysis of the blood traces, entrusted to Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Berti of the RIS in Cagliari, and the analysis by pathologist Cristina Cattaneo, the indictment retraces the escalation of violence , which began no earlier than 9:45 a.m. (half an hour after the time revealed in the initial investigation) and which led to Chiara's death. And her attempt to defend herself from those blows, first inflicted with bare hands and then, presumably, with a dovetail hammer, perhaps taken from the girl's father's toolbox, whose disappearance she had reported. At least 12 blows , as many as the wounds to her face and head, began in the living room, passed near the area where the telephone was located, and ended in front of the stairs leading to the basement. There, she was dragged and then slid down to the bottom, where the killer , "even though she was already unconscious, he struck her at least 4-5 times," especially to the head. Then, as he climbed back up, he leaned against the wall where the so-called PDA 33 was found, and finally, he cleaned himself and washed his hands in the kitchen sink.
Cell phone analysis also suggests that Sempio lied by saying he was in Vigevano to buy a book and that the receipt's alibi was false. Furthermore, wiretaps from mid-April last year would support his motive. A bug placed on his car picked up some monologues : investigators believe he admitted to having seen Chiara and Alberto's intimate video, to having approached her, and to having been rudely rejected. He imitates a female voice, "She hung up on me..." he says, "And she hung up the phone... Ah, there you are acting tough (laughs), but I never saw it that way, the interest wasn't mutual, damn it." Meanwhile, the defense is working to prove her innocence and dismantle those soliloquies: "She was working on a podcast," and the details of the pen drive to which the audio recordings were allegedly transferred were "already known since 2009." Furthermore, Chiara, also due to the age difference, only saw her fleetingly and never met her. "We are requesting access to the file in real time," Liborio Cataliotti stated, "which can also be obtained electronically," meaning "the evidence that supported this serious charge, the most serious there could be in our criminal justice system."
For the Poggis, however, the ordeal continues, an ordeal that has been going on for 19 years. They believe that those "wiretaps are not a confession," but, their lawyers say, "media hype" that doesn't change their conviction. Meanwhile, Stasi's request for a review of the trial is looming . The Milan Prosecutor's Office could also make this move, if it's convinced, while awaiting the documents from the Pavia Prosecutor's Office. "Alberto has ever-growing hope, but he also has a level head that keeps him grounded, aware of his current situation as a prisoner, and equally aware that this is a serious investigation, which will perhaps allow us to work intensely, and as quickly as possible, given the volume of documents, to prepare a request for review." This was stated by Antonio De Rensis, Alberto Stasi's lawyer, during a live broadcast on the program 'IgnotoX' on La7.
(Unioneonline)