Overview
- Sempio is now the sole suspect as prosecutors cite a 2025 in-car recording in which he appears to mention an intimate video and a USB flash drive that investigators say only a viewer would know about.
- Investigators outline a new sequence that starts with a bare-handed assault near the living-room sofas and continues with blows on the cellar stairs using a tool they say fits a missing hammer from the home.
- Prosecutors say blood drops by the sofas, a left-hand print on floor tiles, and an imprint labeled “33” point to the attacker’s path and stance as the victim was dragged toward the stairwell.
- Forensic work includes shoe-sole marks with dot patterns in the bathroom and an anthropometric analysis that, according to consultant Cristina Cattaneo, makes Sempio’s foot size compatible with the prints previously tied to a smaller shoe.
- The defense argues Sempio was echoing a podcast or TV segment in the recording and says the transcript is riddled with “unintelligible” gaps, as prosecutors near the close of the inquiry and consider seeking his indictment before a judge.