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The Ris in Garlasco to reconstruct the crime scene in 3D by triangulating the traces

Specialists from the Ris in Cagliari use advanced technology to map the murder house in Garlasco in detail.

by Enrico Bronzo

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Casa Poggi, parte della scena del delitto (Ansa)

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Garlasco, triangulation of all 2007 tracks

Three-dimensional mapping of the cottage, repositioning of the photos of the time and reinterpretation of the dynamics of the crime based on the results obtained and the new technologies. These are the three aspects on which the carabinieri of the Ris of Cagliari have been working and will work over the next two months. Yesterday, from around 9am to 4pm, they made a new inspection in Garlasco to survey the interior and exterior of the cottage where Chiara Poggi was killed in 2007.

Using a drone, lasers and scanners, the Arma specialists mapped every corner of the house to carry out a detailed three-dimensional reconstruction.

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The specialists carried out the 'triangulation', i.e. they used a specific method provided for in the 'Bloodstain pattern analysis' (Bpa), of all the traces found and retrieved in 2007 at the time of Chiara Poggi's murder, in Garlasco, the carabinieri who carried out the inspection in the Poggi's cottage yesterday 9 June for 7 hours, using laser scanners, drones and photographic surveys.

In particular, from what we have heard, the so-called 'triangulation' was carried out on all the traces found at the time on the ground floor of the house, i.e. on the crime scene, which includes various parts of the house, including also the stairs leading to the cellar, where Chiara's body was found at the bottom, and the walls.

All traces, including footprints, had been analysed at the time, but, as far as was known, triangulation, a technique that allows the dynamics of the murder to be reconstructed through the study of blood drops and the resulting stains, had not been carried out.

The 'triangulation' method is reportedly used to delineate the specific 'positioning' of tracks, i.e. to measure the distance in centimetres between one track and another, and then create a 3D map of the crime scene.

And this is the work that was carried out today by the carabinieri, who 'mapped' with a laser scanner the entire ground floor and also the area of the staircase leading to the cellar, where on the right wall, for example, the now well-known fingerprint 33 attributed to Andrea Sempio was found, according to a recent dactyloscopic consultation ordered by the Pavia prosecutors.

60 days for Ris results

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The carabinieri of the Ris (Scientific Investigations Department is a military department of the Carabinieri Corps) in Cagliari, who work closely with their colleagues from the Nucleo Investigativo in Milan, have asked the Pavia public prosecutor's office, which appointed them, for 60 days to be able to provide answers to all three questions;

Who was present at the Ris inspection

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In the house, in addition to Chiara's parents living there, Giuseppe Poggi and Rita Preda, also present were Angela Taccia, lawyer together with Massimo Lovati of Andrea Sempio, the 37-year-old man under investigation again, and the Poggi family's consultant, Davide Radaelli.

In the new investigation, the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered a premises inspection order in the house. To carry out 'measurements at the property with the use of appropriate technical instruments' and 'photographic surveys', the act states. The order issued by prosecutors Napoleone-Civardi-De Stefano-Rizza was notified to Sempio's lawyers 24 hours in advance on Sunday.

Asked,' La Presse reports, 'if another way of killing was hypothesised, the lawyer Taccia said, 'no, you cannot say. We have to wait for the investigation.

The Poggi family had been informed of the inspection 'through the grapevine' a few days ago, say lawyers Gian Luigi Tizzoni and Francesco Compagna, who do not hide a certain annoyance at the way it was carried out. "The Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office had formally committed itself to guaranteeing the confidentiality of the investigative verification," they state. "Once again this morning, as always in the past, Chiara's parents opened the doors of their home to the investigators, as had been requested in the past,' add Tizzoni and Compagna. 'Once again they were bitterly surprised to find that the relevant inspection decree had been made immediately available to the press and not to them, as the offended persons.

The new 3D reconstruction of the dwelling, as well as a new hypothetical Bpa analysis, the discipline that studies bloodstains to reconstruct the manner and dynamics of a murder, will have to fit in, overlap with, or modify those already present in the sentences on the Garlasco murder.

The results of the 2014 expert's report on not stepping on blood

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In particular the expert report entrusted in 2014 to Milan Court of Appeal consultants Gabriele Bitelli, Roberto Testi and Luca Vittuari: 158 pages of analysis on shoe prints and bloodstains at the crime scene. They became crucial in Alberto Stasi's 16-year prison sentence for having established that the "chances of not stepping on" blood entering or leaving "the hallway" of the stairs where Chiara Poggi's body was found were "0.00038%" for those who had stopped at the first step and "0.00002%" for those who had stopped at the second, as the victim's ex-boyfriend recounted.

The reconstruction of the crime according to the final verdict

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According to the trials, Chiara Poggi was killed in 'two stages'. First she was shot at the entrance by a person with whom she was so familiar that she opened the door in her pyjamas, in the 'living room' and 'at the foot of the staircase leading to the upper floor, next to the railing' where the 'first conspicuous pool of blood' was found;

then she was dragged and finally shot again at the corridor door, leaving blood spatter on the door, telephone, doorframe, wall and floor.

From step number zero of the staircase leading to the basement, the body was 'thrown' downwards by someone who knew of the existence of the staircase to the basement. It slammed onto the fourth step and slipped slowly, leaving 'stains' from 'slipping' on the next steps (7th-8th). The 26-year-old's body was found with her head lying on the 9th step.

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