Overview
- Experts Giampietro Lago and Elena Pili presented a roughly 300-page superperizia with over 10,000 attachments in a 20 October hearing before the Trieste court.
- The reanalysis identified five mixed genetic profiles from recovered items, with no correspondence to the 11 named suspects or 52 other tested individuals.
- Two pairs of hairs were deemed contaminations likely linked to police personnel, and the judge granted the defense request to disclose those individuals’ identities.
- The case file has been returned to the Trieste prosecutor to decide on releasing the names and whether to request archiving after the negative DNA matches.
- Elvo Zornitta was effectively removed from the current probe and urged to be left alone, as ANSA notes the last attack’s statute of limitations is about a year away.