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Garlasco murder investigation: evidentiary accident on exhibits and DNA in Milan

New investigative phase in the Garlasco murder: scientific analysis of findings and DNA to rewrite the case.

by Enrico Bronzo

16 June 2025Aggiornato alle ore 12:40

La villetta di Garlasco dove nel 2007 è stata uccisa Chiara Poggi, 12 marzo 2025. Ansa/ Stefano Rottigni

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Defence Sempio appoints another expert for the evidentiary incident
Garlasco murder, what will be decided on 17 June

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On Tuesday 17 June, the crucial phase of the new investigation into the Garlasco murder begins in Milan.

Almost 18 years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, who was killed on 13 August 2007, the Prosecutor's Office of Pavia has opened an investigation for the second time, in the belief that the judicial affair that led to Alberto Stasi, the young woman's boyfriend at the time, being sentenced to 16 years in prison, must be rewritten.

The only suspect, this time, is Andrea Sempio, a friend of the victim's brother.

Genetic and dactyloscopic experts will meet on Tuesday in the offices of the Scientific Police of the Milan Police Headquarters for the evidentiary incident, during which DNA and fingerprints, which have largely been found and discarded in the past because they were useless or unusable, are to be analysed.

Coordinating the unrepeatable investigation will be Denise Albani and Domenico Marchigiani, the experts appointed by the gip Daniela Garlaschelli, the consultants of the public prosecutors, Carlo Previderè and Pierangela Grignani, and of the defence, Luciano Garofano, who was the commander of the Ris di Parma.

For Chiara's parents and brother there will be Marzio Capra, Dario Redaelli and Calogero Biondi; for Stasi, Ugo Ricci and Oscar Ghizzoni.

Defence Sempio appoints another expert for the evidentiary incident

Andrea Sempio's defence is bringing in another expert, a dactyloscopist, who will work alongside former Carabinieri Ris commander Luciano Garofano. He is Luigi Bisogno, a former senior inspector of the State Police who retired in 2010 and worked as an expert in fingerprints and crime scenes for almost 25 years at the Interregional Cabinet of the Scientific Police of the Naples Police Headquarters, dealing with various murder and cold cases. A nomination, decided by lawyers Massimo Lovati and Angela Taccia flanked by Garofano, which will be filed on the day - the news was known on the morning of 16 June - in view of the evidentiary accident, with wide-ranging genetic analysis, whose operations will begin tomorrow.

Garlasco murder, what will be decided on 17 June

The experts will work on the material collected last Thursday in the Milan Carabinieri barracks and the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Pavia.

Most likely, the work will start with the examination of the custody records of the exhibits, with which a series of data should have been put down on paper: who stored them and how they were stored, and even who ensured that for some hidden reason they were not altered.

After that, before the postponement to a new date, they will agree on the outline programme on how to proceed, i.e. whether to first analyse the parades strips with fingerprints, including number 10 found on the inside of the front door of the small villa in Via Pascoli, which the investigators and investigators consider very important and from which they hope to extrapolate genetic material; or, as seems more realistic, whether to focus immediately on the rubbish, in which case the team will move to the laboratories of the Fatebenefratelli hospital.

Or whether to focus on DNA, one of the nodal points of the case and on which, it is speculated, a clash of lawyers.

Having dispelled the hypothesis of taking to the laboratory the plaster (the wrapper has disappeared) with the hand that Sempio, a frequent visitor to the Poggi's house, left on the wall of the stairs at the bottom of which the victim was found lifeless, the game will be played largely on the material extracted from Chiara's nails: for the records of the trial that closed in 2015 is 'anonymous': we will have to see if there is any scientific progress in recent years that could, possibly, say something different,