Overview

• Carabinieri RIS used luminol in Silvana Damato’s apartment and detected blood traces that will undergo laboratory analysis.
• The investigation, coordinated by prosecutor Valentina Mondovì, continues as a possible homicide after a full-day forensic sweep by the RIS team from Parma.
• Initial autopsy noted facial bruises and a small neck cut deemed not necessarily fatal, with toxicology and lung histology still pending to assess drowning.
• The sixth-floor flat showed no signs of forced entry, the door was locked, firefighters entered from the roof, and the victim’s keys have not been found.
• Investigators seized the phone from under the body in the bathtub and were able to access it, while reviewing calls, chats and bank movements and planning further on-site searches.