Overview
- Investigators exhumed Roberta Bertacchi’s body on Tuesday, October 20, to remove the black boots she wore so Carabinieri RIS experts can compare the soles with prints found on the balcony canopy and the apartment door.
- RIS teams also used a laser scanner to build a 3D reconstruction of the Casarano apartment to test how Bertacchi could have moved before the hanging and collected a saliva sample from the boyfriend for DNA checks.
- The probe was reopened and an incidente probatorio ordered after the victim’s family successfully opposed a request to archive the case, a step taken to preserve non‑repeatable technical evidence.
- Roberta’s boyfriend, Davide Falcone, is under investigation for instigation to suicide, is on house arrest for an unrelated drug probe, and is due to face a separate trial for alleged domestic abuse on November 5.
- Family lawyers say they contest the suicide finding and point to witness reports of someone kicking the door before the body was found; the pending forensic results, including any tests on clothing or the scarf, could materially change the inquiry’s course.