"I hope the police find the killer quickly: we can't help them much more. We've already said what we know. In any case, I don't think it's someone we know."
Returning home to Bottanuco together with Sharon Verzeni's father, in the home of the parents of his partner who was killed a month ago in Terno d'Isola, Sergio Ruocco, the thirty-three-year-old's partner, spoke briefly with reporters : always calm, the 37-year-old plumber explained that today he didn't go to work (in Seriate) as he had supposed last week, but that «I'll go tomorrow».
Ruocco is not under investigation and has not been summoned by the Carabinieri today: since the night of his partner's murder, exactly four weeks ago, he has already been questioned three times and three more times - the last two on Saturday - he has been summoned to the barracks for procedures connected to the investigation. No further visits to the barracks are currently planned.
His first defender is always Sharon's father, Bruno Verzeni, who has been hosting him in their house for a month : "We are sure that it wasn't Sergio - he reiterated to journalists - it was someone who didn't know her that well, even if I don't know who. Sergio is calm and so are we. There was no friction between him and Sharon". The bond between Sharon's parents and Sergio Ruocco is very close: in the past her father had already reiterated his trust in the 37-year-old plumber, claiming that for them "he is like a son".
In the meantime, the investigations of the Carabinieri of the Bergamo investigative unit, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Emanuele Marchisio, continue. According to some residents of the area of via Merelli in Terno d'Isola, where Sharon Verzeni lived, the thirty-three-year-old often left the house in the evening, even late at night, not necessarily in jogging gear and always alone : "She often went out late at night on foot and we saw her, she practically always took the same road", says a resident, already interviewed by investigators who are trying to shed light on the woman's murder. The murder occurred ten minutes before one in the morning between Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 July in via Castegnate in Terno d'Isola, less than 800 meters from the house where Sharon had lived for three years with her partner.
Sharon's relatives said that the walks - which also began in winter - were the result of advice from the dietician. Meanwhile, at the provincial command in Bergamo, the interrogations of people "informed about the facts" (therefore without being accompanied by a lawyer or being investigated) continued. In these hours the carabinieri are questioning several residents of via Castegnate, after having listened to her colleagues from the "Vanilla Food" bar in Brembate, obviously relatives and family members, and then the neighbors of via Merelli in Terno and some of the people who appear in the images from the video surveillance cameras on the night of the murder: in total, more than one hundred people were questioned. However, no one was able to provide useful elements to give a turning point to the investigation.
(Unioneonline/D)