Garlasco, shocking hypothesis: doubts about the weapon and new theory

Doubts resurface about the weapon used in the murder of Chiara Poggi, which occurred on August 13, 2007 in Garlasco.

During the television program "Mattino 5", a new hypothesis was put forward regarding a piece of evidence found in the victim's home: a brass vase that would show a slight deformation.

According to reports, the documents from the Carabinieri's RIS include a description of the artifact as "a brass vase with a dent", highlighted in an image marked with a red circle.

On the same vase, brownish traces of uncertain nature were observed. Investigators subjected the evidence to the Combur test, a preliminary examination used to detect possible blood traces. The result was negative and no further samples or laboratory investigations were conducted.

On this point, geneticist Pasquale Linarello intervened, noting that the object could have been analyzed more extensively. "It could have been investigated further – he explained – but if Chiara Poggi had been struck with that instrument, we would probably have found much more significant dents".

The vase hypothesis fits into the long and unresolved debate about the murder weapon, which has never been definitively identified: over time, various reconstructions have been made, without any object being definitively recognized as the instrument used to strike the young woman.