Garlasco, final results on gauze: in 2 out of 3 samples same contamination

The charge against the 37-year-old is murder in conspiracy with unknown persons or with Alberto Stasi himself, who was previously convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi. In other words, this charge does not acquit Stasi, because the sentence against him has not been challenged by any review.

The LaPresse agency reports that there is DNA contamination on the gauze used to collect material from Chiara Poggi's mouth. This was learned on 14 July 205 LaPresse from sources informed about the evidentiary incident in progress ordered by the Pavia gip Daniela Garlaschelli and entrusted to the forensic expert, Denise Albani. The so-called 'Ignoto 3', the male DNA profile on the gauze used to collect material from Chiara Poggi's mouth, is compatible with that of the medical examiner's assistant Dario Ballardini who carried out the autopsy on the body of the 26-year-old woman killed on 13 August 2007.

According to what has been reconstructed in Poggi's mouth a real oral swab was not carried out as in other parts of the corpse but the gauze was used to collect material for comparison with the results of the analysis of blood traces at the Garlasco crime scene.

Of the two usable gauze samples in the repeat tests today, one had an 80% match with the assistant coroner.

On the second one we see both the professional's Y profile and another profile in what is described as an 'infinitesimal' quantity, nnot attributable to violent action in the victim's pharyngeal area and 'contamination'. The most likely reconstruction is that this occurred in the autopsy room by handling the gauze or touching it with objects that were themselves contaminated.

This is one of the reconstructions, other sites instead ride the trail of the truly unknown, therefore, present on the day of the crime on 13 August 2007. Obviously there are headlines on sites such as 'Crime of Garlasco, the shadow of the third man: now it's hunt for unknown 3': shadows, hunt, the reader is taken more or less consciously into a thriller film with a possible - welcome? - twist.

There should also be those who exhumed Chiara Poggi's body to take fingerprints, among those who could be swabbed to check whether the male DNA found in the oropharyngeal cavity was contaminated or not. Samples for comparison should be taken from all those who came into contact with the corpse. The comparison will therefore cover at least 30 people, including the profiles already taken.

At 3 p.m. on 15 July 2025, a new result was released by the agencies on the front of the evidentiary incident on the murder of Chiara Poggi. There are 3 - instead of 2 - out of 5 'useful' results on the front of the gauze that was used in the 26-year-old's mouth to collect her genetic material to be compared with the traces of the 13 August 2007 murder in Garlasco. And even the replication on the third trace returned an alleged pollution. Of this repetition gives an account of the e-mail of the geneticist Denise Albani - chosen by the judge for the preliminary investigations of Pavia Daniela Garlaschelli - sent in the late morning to the consultants of the new suspect Andrea Sempio, of the convicted Alberto Stasi and of the victim's family.

On the few centimetres of gauze used at the autopsy, and which touched all the walls of the young woman's mouth, five samples were taken.

1) one showed a Y haplotype (male line) 99% compatible with Ernesto Gabriele Ferrari the coroner's assistant;

2) a second is partly superimposable on Ferrari and partly not (so far the known elements);.

3) today's second replication also returned a mixed trace of Ferrari and the same unknown material in the third sample. This is an even more exegregated and degraded sample than the other two, which corroborates that the gauze was already contaminated before the sample was taken.

In all three cases, we are dealing with samples that are less than a single cell (between 2 and 4 picograms) compared to the amount of the victim (present with concentrations in the order of 40,000 picograms) and which logic and science links to 'pollution'.

And that this is the hypothesis the judge's expert believes in is also linked to her request for 'a few more specifications' from forensic scientist Marco Ballardini to understand how and by whom the gauze was handled during the autopsy.