«I may have caused that fracture to Mrs. Liliana Resinovich's vertebra.»
This was told to investigators by the anatomical preparator who participated in the autopsy on Resinovich's body on January 11, 2022, in the anatomy room of the morgue on Via Costalunga.
As reported by the newspaper Il Piccolo, the specialist spontaneously appeared before the investigators in recent days and should soon be heard by the public prosecutor Ilaria Iozzi, who is leading the investigation into the death of the 63-year-old woman from Trieste found lifeless on January 5, 2022.
The technician - an anatomical preparator, or sector room technician - is a young man from Trieste who, as Il Piccolo writes, does not exclude that some maneuvers he himself performed on the body may have caused the lesion to the upper left facet of the T2 thoracic vertebra, found during the second autopsy performed on the woman's remains, conducted by forensic anthropologist Cristina Cattaneo.
The fracture on the vertebra has recently been the subject of friction between the defense of Sebastiano Visintin - Liliana's husband investigated for the murder of his wife - who does not exclude that it was inflicted at the moment the body was found - and the family's consultants, who have a contrary opinion.
The specialist's statements, therefore, fuel doubts. Even if the fracture is not an element that can confirm or refute the "homicidal dynamics manifested by means of external suffocation". The fracture, the newspaper recalls, had not been detected by the CT scan performed on January 8, 2022, two days before the autopsy.
(Online Union)