Overview

• The incident probatorio opened June 17 in Milan with court-appointed periti and party consultants reviewing custody records and planning detailed evidence tests.
• Experts have 90 days to examine degraded DNA from Chiara Poggi’s fingernails and to verify the integrity of adhesive tapes and other biological traces.
• Investigators are now probing previously untouched items from Poggi’s household waste—including a yogurt pot, cereal box fragments and a bathroom mat—to seek new genetic profiles.
• A fingerprint labeled 97F recovered from a bloodstained stairwell has been rehabilitated as a possible killer print alongside the long-contested palm mark 33.
• Defense counsel Massimo Lovati has denounced the proceedings as insidious and is challenging the handling of evidence as experts prepare for a protracted legal battle.