Crime of Garlasco, the case of the murder of Chiara Poggi reopened 18 years later: this is who the new suspect is

Chiara Poggi He was killed in Garlasco on August 13, 2007. Since then 18 years have passed and the boyfriend of the time, Alberto Stasi, is the only sentenced for the murder, since 2015 in the Milanese prison in Bollate. Now the case could be reopened by an investigation by the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office with the Carabinieri of the Milan Investigation Unit.

The new investigation

Under the nails of the 26 year old Chiara Poggi was found organic material and this new investigation would have identified it. According to the Pavia prosecutor’s office, there would be around two fingers of the victim’s hands, genetic material that does not belong to Alberto Stasi, but it would be by Andrea Semplio.

Who is Andrea Semplio

Andrea Semplio today is 37 years old. At the time of the crime he was 19 years old and was a friend of Chiara’s brother. He attended the crime house and knew the victim. He would also have had telephone contacts with her in the previous days. Like all the people close to the family and present in Garlasco he was heard at the time of the first investigation: he said he was in Vigevano, but without being able to try his presence in the city. Semve has already entered the investigation in the past, but its position has been archived. In 2016 the defense of Stasi had presented a genetic expertise that starting from the DNA found on the girl’s nails had identified the profile of the semium. His number of shoes then coincides with the footprints left in the blood. A year later the storage in which it was said that the hypothesis of his involvement was unfounded.

DNA

Now he is investigated by the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office for competition in murder with Alberto Stasi or person who was unknown. Tomorrow, Wednesday 12 March 2025, he will have to present himself at the headquarters of the Scientific of the Carabinieri of Milan to be subjected to the salivary examination and buffer in a “compulsory” way. I have to obey the order of the judge since last week denied the consent to the DNA examination.

Nine years ago no genetic comparison test was done. The isolated material on Chiara Poggi’s body was indicated as “not usable”. Even the attempt to reopen the case made in 2020 by the defense of Stasi was not a result. Also in that case the question of DNA and the methods of the investigations made in 2006 were reported.

The material on which the magistrates work is the same, now defined that can be used for legal purposes. They are now the prosecutors of Pavia and not the defense of states to name the semium. The request for reopening the file previously archived comes from them. From here we start to investigate the same person for the second time for the same crime.

The hypothesis from which this investigation starts, parallel to the one that led to the condemnation of Stasi, born from an appeal to the Court of Cassation, is that the former Bocconi student did not act alone, but together with the person whose traces were found on the crime scene and on the body of the victim.

The crime

It was August 13, 2007 when Chiara Poggi’s body was found. It was Alberto at 3:30 pm to find out. He had called her for a long time that morning, she hadn’t placed and had gone to look for her. This is his story. The girl would have died between 9 and 12 and 9 and 35 attacked when she was still in pajamas In the house where he was alone, given that the parents and brother were on vacation, lying along the stairs of the basement of the house. Of the crime weapon has never been found a trace. A hammer according to the judges, however, disappeared from the house.

A witness was instead seen a black bicycle As a woman in front of the house at 9 and 10 and remained for at least twenty minutes according to another testimony. It is not seized except seven years later. There are two others that Alberto could use. After 10 the bike was gone and stasis at 9 and 35 was at his home on the computer. The strongest tests against Stasi, for which the Cassation confirmed the appeal-bis sentence and the sentence of 16 years that Stasi is serving in Bollate, are the stainless shoes Which would instead be dirty with blood, of which the crime scene was full.

Alberto Stasi’s position

The clues But they always remain weak: the crime weapon and the motive are missing. For this there is no conviction in the first two processesonly to the bis appeal, born from a sentence of the Cassation, renovating the whole investigation the details that lead to the sentence of 16 years, including the photo of an imprint of the hand of the murderer on Chiara’s pajamas. Chiara Poggi’s family has always believed in Stasi’s guilt and had not given credit to the accusations aimed at Andrea Semplio. According to the judges of the Court of Appeal of Milan, «Alberto Stasi He brutally killed his girlfriend who evidently had become, for an unknown reason, a dangerous and uncomfortable presence, as such as to eliminate forever from his life as a “respectable” boy and a “model” student, by all agreed by everyone ».