Two parallel investigations with the same crime hypothesis: murder. And no suspects.
Two victims: the worker Mauro Pitzalis and the shepherd-shoemaker Cristian Farris, both with a past marked by trouble with the law for weapons and robberies (successful and attempted), two bodies disappeared into thin air without leaving any traces. And this in two towns that are practically attached: from the last houses in Nurri to the first in Orroli it's a few minutes' walk, and yet it doesn't officially appear that Mauro and Cristian were dating or that they had any business in common.
No comments, no indiscretions from the Isili carabinieri barracks, where the two files are always within reach on the desk of the commander, Captain Benedetto Paolucci. Is there any news? "We are working, the investigations are underway", are the polite but firm words of the Carabinieri investigators.
Their attention focuses on friendships and acquaintances with the disappeared.
In terms of rumors, several are going around: one - unconfirmed - tells of a third young man from the area who, after the disappearances of Cristian and Mauro, moved hastily away from the island.
The first to disappear, on October 21st four years ago, was Cristian Farris, from Orroli. He was 27 years old. His van was found destroyed by fire near the dam on the road to Escalaplano.
For Mauro Pitzalis from Nurri, an employee of a company in Orroli, there has been total silence since August 31st a year ago, the day on which the 31-year-old did not return home. Mobile phone unreachable, last cell hooked up just outside the town centre. Two days later the father found the young man's car parked in a street in the town, locked, and reported his disappearance to the Isili police.
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