Overview

• Court-appointed experts began an irrepeatable examination today at the Milan police forensics unit to hunt for latent fingerprints on 2007 kitchen-waste items, including an Estathé brick, a biscuit wrapper, a cereal bag and the trash sack.
• Earlier checks on the same trash detected DNA only from Chiara Poggi and her then boyfriend Alberto Stasi, and the perito Domenico Marchigiani is now testing for prints that could confirm or challenge that picture.
• The incidente probatorio faces an October 24 deadline, and a proroga is considered likely because geneticist Denise Albani still lacks the raw datasets from the 2014 analysis by Francesco De Stefano needed to reassess Y-chromosome fragments from Poggi’s fingernails.
• Andrea Sempio remains under investigation in the reopened case, with his lawyers saying new tests do not point to him, while Stasi’s defense downplays the fingerprint hunt and maintains its broader doubts about the original reconstruction.
• The Pavia prosecutor did not include the contested “traccia 33” in the current evidentiary tests, and separate 3D reconstruction work by RIS Cagliari and further calendarized reviews of the nail data are still pending.