Overview

• A second independent replication has verified a full 22-marker male profile, dubbed “Ignoto 3,” on one of five gauze samples from Chiara Poggi’s oral cavity.
• Ignoto 3 does not match convicted Alberto Stasi or new suspect Andrea Sempio, and a separate trace matching assistant Ernesto Gabriele Ferrari was classified as background contamination.
• Forensic experts and defense consultants remain split on whether the robust genetic signature reflects a genuine third party at the crime scene or contamination from non-sterile gauze and handling.
• The Prosecutor’s Office in Pavia has ordered DNA samples from roughly 30 people who touched or were near Poggi’s body in 2007 to determine the trace’s origin.
• The renewed DNA evidence has revived investigative momentum in the Garlasco murder case and prompted fresh scrutiny of theories involving an unknown assailant or accomplice.