Overview
- The incident-probatory phase has closed and the judge returned the acts to the Pavia prosecutor, with investigators working into February and a possible indictment request expected in spring.
- Court-appointed geneticist Denise Albani reported a Y-aplotype under Chiara Poggi’s fingernails compatible with Andrea Sempio’s paternal line and excluding Alberto Stasi, while warning the profiles are incomplete, mixed and not consolidated.
- A newly recovered two-page handwritten note dated September 11, 2014 by consultant Francesco De Stefano was acquired into the record, noting two comparable Y-traces and a third different trace that was not previously filed.
- Investigators are contextualizing the genetics with other elements including the contested ‘impronta 33,’ a Vigevano parking receipt, phone calls to the Poggi home, a secret RIS bloodstain-pattern report reportedly indicating a lone assailant, and an awaited medico-legal opinion by Cristina Cattaneo on wounds and timing.
- Sempio’s defense argues the DNA is legally unusable and consistent with secondary transfer, while Stasi’s lawyers highlight his exclusion and see the finding as strengthening potential grounds for a revision bid.