Milan, June 16 (LaPresse) – The evidentiary hearing in the Garlasco murder case will begin on Tuesday at 10:30 AM, aiming to isolate DNA from biological samples and evidence that were never analyzed or yielded uncertain results, preserved for 18 years since the murder of Chiara Poggi. The meeting is scheduled at the Milan police headquarters, with 11 experts including court-appointed experts from the Pavia Tribunal and consultants from the prosecution and defense. Forensic experts appointed by judge Daniela Garlaschelli, Denise Albani and Domenico Marchegiani, will open two boxes retrieved last week from the Forensic Medicine Unit of the University of Pavia and the provincial Carabinieri command in via Moscova, Milan.
The initial activities will verify the chain of custody of the evidence—such as fragments of a bathroom mat, packages of tea, cereals, biscuits, yogurt, garbage bags—and check consistency between the delivery records and the actual contents of the boxes and sealed bags. A roadmap for the expert assessments will be drafted, to be carried out with adversarial procedure within the 90-day timeframe granted by the judge, with the final report due by September 17, to be discussed in the hearing set for October 24.
The most likely scenario is that the laboratory tests at Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Milan will start with the garbage, which was collected at the time of the murder but never analyzed for biological traces that may have survived over time. Following that, there will be an analysis of any biological residues on the 35 adhesive strips used in 2007 by forensic police to collect fingerprints from the villa on Via Pascoli. Since this is a destructive process, the strips will first be photographed to allow for potential future fingerprint comparisons.
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