Court of Pavia

Garlasco case, Stasi defence obtains DNA of 9 other people

New investigations into the murder of Chiara Poggi in Garlasco: undiscovered elements and possible new clues emerge, involving new subjects and deepening the crime scene.

16 May 2025Aggiornato il 16 maggio 2025), ore 14:50

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Findings on which genetic analysis is focused

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Stefania and Paola Cappa, the cousins of Chiara Poggi who was murdered in Garlasco on 13 August 2007, have already voluntarily provided their DNA in the initial investigation into the crime for which then-boyfriend Alberto Stasi was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The sisters therefore enter the new investigation as non-investigators.

The names indicated by the Pavia gip - on indications of the parties - are Marco Panzarasa (a friend of Stasi), three friends of Marco Poggi (brother of the victim) including Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi (not under investigation) recently searched in the investigation on Sempio, three carabinieri and a couple of rescuers who intervened immediately after the crime of 13 August 2007.

These are nine names (all not under investigation) who frequented the cottage and who would thus no longer be implicated in a case that has dragged on for 18 years.

The comparison of the material found on the victim will only take place with the male profiles - there are two mixed and male (Y chromosome) traces under her fingernails - while the Cappa cousins will be subjected to a fingerprint analysis to compare it with the traces that could be recovered from some finds in the rubbish of the cottage and never analysed after the crime.

We will return to the classroom in Pavia on 24 October

The analysis entrusted by the Pavia judge to the forensic police to search for a match between the DNA of Andrea Sempio, who is under investigation for the murder of Chiara Poggi, and the material found on the fingernails of the Garlasco victim, will begin on 17 June in Milan.

The analysis will also concern the new biological traces that will be searched for on the elements never analysed in the cottage and then compared with the biological traces of a number of people (not under investigation) who frequented the Poggi house.

For the murder of the 26-year-old girl killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007, the then boyfriend Alberto Stasi was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison, a sentence he has almost finished serving.

It will return to the courtroom in Pavia on 24 October.

The trace taken in Sempio on 13 March could return the match, but the Y chromosome (on the victim's nail fragments) is not identifying: it only indicates the paternal line and cannot be dated. Hardly enough on its own to bring charges against the young man who frequented the cottage in Via Pascoli.

In addition to the genetic profile under examination, which would only allow a paternal genetic line to be defined, not a person) they will proceed on a series of traces, some sixty in number, dug up from the evidence deposited at the court in Pavia and at the Ris in Parma.

These would include three prints on two pizza boxes eaten by Chiara and Alberto the night before the crime.

Findings on which genetic analyses are focused

Not only the biological material found on Chiara Poggi's fingernails, but also a fragment of the bath mat, the packages of tea, yoghurt, cereals, biscuits and other bags seized almost 18 years ago in the small villa in Garlasco, where the young woman was murdered, to which must be added the 'para-stickers' of all the prints, some sixty.

In essence, these are the findings, some of which have never been analysed, that will be the focus of the maxi genetic expert's report ordered by the Pavia Magistrate Daniela Garlaschelli, in the new investigation against Andrea Sempio on the murder of the young woman, for which her then-boyfriend Alberto Stasi is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence.

First of all, it will have to be verified whether or not the results of the genetic analysis carried out on the biological traces found on Chiara's fingernails can be used, and then possibly compared with Sempio's and other people's DNA, as there would be an alleged 'unknown 2'.

Genetic traces will also be extrapolated from all findings, which will then be compared with the DNA collected, including that of the Cappa twins, Marco Panzarasa and others, as decided by the judge. And this also to exclude

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