Overview

• A Pavia tribunal has tasked latent-print expert Domenico Marchigiani with examining 18-year-old tea, cereal and yogurt packaging alongside acetate sheets from the original crime scene.
• The Prosecutor’s Office refused to admit the pivotal palm print known as ‘Traccia 33’ into the incidente probatorio after confirming it was destroyed during initial investigations.
• Defense attorney Angela Taccia challenged the validity of the trash seizure, arguing that any procedural flaws would invalidate both fingerprint and genetic examinations.
• Geneticist Denise Albani will resume DNA analyses in early August to identify an unknown male profile found on an oral swab and to compare two fingernail samples, one allegedly linked to Andrea Sempio.
• The renewed proceedings mark a departure from the original focus on convicted defendant Alberto Stasi toward comprehensive forensic reanalysis under modern methods.