Overview

• Prosecutors indicted Sebastiano Visintin in April 2025 on suspicion of murdering his wife and cite financial motives behind the case.
• A collegiate forensic consultation led by anatomopathologist Cristina Cattaneo concluded that Liliana was killed on the day she disappeared, ruling out an initial suicide theory.
• Claudio Sterpin, Liliana’s extramarital partner, testified in June that an email poem signed “Tua Lilly” appeared to foreshadow her disappearance.
• Investigators are scrutinizing the poem’s imagery of absence and remembrance as they piece together Liliana’s last days.
• Early inquiries leaned toward suicide but accumulating forensic evidence and Sterpin’s statements have shifted the investigation firmly toward homicide.