A pink bag of kefir, a trash can, a water bottle, a bottle with liquid and sediment at the bottom, and a package of work gloves. These five items, stored in Berlin and recovered from the Pietracatella home on July 30th, are the focus of investigators working on the mystery surrounding the two women from Molise, a mother and daughter, who died of ricin poisoning in December last year.
Next Thursday, November 19th, in Germany, there will be a one-off investigation on some fingerprints and biological traces found on these very items. Men from the Flying Squad and the Scientific Police of Campobasso will go to the Robert Cock Institute to acquire, in collaboration with the German experts, "latent fingerprints and biological traces present" on the samples. The Larino Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered that the operations be video-recorded and that the related reports must be filed within 5 days. Since this is a one-off investigation, the parties, both the suspects and the injured parties, have been notified and will be able to intervene in the operations if necessary . The German experts have been working for several months not only on 131 items taken from the house where Sara Di Vita, 15, and her mother Antonella Di Ielsi (50), lived, but also on dozens of foods taken from the same house almost a year ago.
The work is taking longer than expected, so much so that the Roberto Cock Institute, after obtaining an extension in October, will almost certainly request another in a few days, at the end of November. Results on the presence of any traces of ricin will therefore not arrive from Germany before the end of the year. Meanwhile, the investigation continues with interrogations: this morning at the Campobasso police station, the Flying Squad interviewed for over an hour the husband of a teacher who is a longtime friend of Gianni Di Vita, the father and husband of the two poisoned women. The man interviewed today is a laboratory technician who works at the Agricultural Institute of Riccia, one of the schools raided by police in recent weeks. Further interviews with persons with knowledge of the facts are scheduled for next week. The investigation into the case of the two poisoned women continues against unknown persons in connection with the crime of premeditated double homicide, while five doctors remain under investigation for manslaughter.
(Unioneonline)