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Pavia Investigators Focus on Sempio as He Recounts Morning of 2007 Garlasco Killing

Fresh expert reviews could shift the estimated time of death, sharpening scrutiny of phone records.

Overview

  • In a Quarto Grado interview, Andrea Sempio described going to a closed bookstore in Vigevano, then visiting his grandmother in Garlasco before a call from his mother to return for lunch.
  • He is currently the sole person under investigation in the new Pavia thread as a potential accomplice in Chiara Poggi’s 2007 murder.
  • Phone records show a 33-second call to Mattia Capra at 12:17 on 13 August 2007 followed by a text to Roberto Freddi, which Sempio characterized as routine ‘squilli’ between friends.
  • He said he later phoned the same friends after learning of Poggi’s death and added that he does not recall the morning’s unanswered rings.
  • Sempio denied cocaine use as a criminologist who mentioned chats about a drug-related hypothesis publicly distanced herself and filed a complaint, while his former lawyer instead floated an unproven hired-killer theory and argued Alberto Stasi is not the murderer.