Overview

• Four Colombian nationals were detained on June 22 on suspicion of killing Alessandro Coatti in a house in Santa Marta’s San José del Pando neighborhood.
• Investigators say the 38-year-old biologist was lured via a dating app, allegedly drugged with scopolamine and then killed and dismembered to hinder identification.
• Analysis of Coatti’s phone and computer uncovered his last movements and communications, yielding critical evidence that identified the suspects.
• The Procura di Roma led a rogatory commission with local prosecutors, Carabinieri del Ros and the Italian embassy in Bogotá to coordinate the investigation.
• Coatti’s family in Ferrara remains without his remains as legal proceedings continue in both Colombia and Italy.