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[Music] Brembo vadas opera is a small and picturesque town seven kilometers or four miles northwest of the city of
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Bergamo in northern Italy about an hour's drive from the line the province of Lombardy covers the cities of Milan
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and Bergamo including the small town of Brembo Tidus opera with its close proximity to Lake Como enter the Swiss
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and Austrian borders it is a popular stopover for tourists the area is dotted with ancient villas and Palacios
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it is a humble town not modernized to the extent of nearby Milan many homes still use wood-burning stoves raised
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chickens and grow their own vegetables postcards of the snow-capped of Bergamo Alps sitting shop displays and the views
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from the small town are a reminder that things don't change at a fast pace in rural leaderly the town has a
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traditional historic center classic church steeples and winding paths and Gardens it still feels like an Old Town
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with old traditions and values every year the small town hosts a street parade where towns folk and others from
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the area come together to dress in Harlequin fancy dress and make traditional wooden floats to parade the
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streets like many old areas of the country family values are deeply rooted and people are fiercely loyal with
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around 8,000 residents brembo Tidus Opera is a quiet close-knit rural community a safe environment for a young
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family a place where a thirteen year old girl walking to a nearby Sports Centre alone in the late afternoon was not
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given a second thought [Music] in November 2010 Winter was sitting in the days were cold averaging around
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seven degrees Celsius or 45 Fahrenheit and then the nearby ski resorts were gearing up for the season 13 year old
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Yarra gambit ratio was passionate about gymnastics enjoyed school and delivered with a happy family she always wore her
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dark curly hair out except while doing gymnastic training or competitions where it would be pulled straight back tightly
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off her face her father Fulvio an architect was a solid man with thick glasses his wife and Yara's mother mara
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was a teacher they were a grounded family who were active in the community their families had been in the area for
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generations Fulvio and Mara had four children the eldest was daughter Kiba aged 15 Yara who was 13 and then two
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younger sons gnihton and Jia Li on Friday the 26th of November 2010 yarrow was gearing up for a gymnastics
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competition the following weekend after spending the afternoon with her family at home she left about 5:15 p.m. she
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told her mother she was going to the local Sports Centre where she trained to return the stereo to her gymnastics
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instructor Sylvia Brenner Yara left the house in black leggings a Hello Kitty t-shirt and a black bomber style jacket
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the short type with knitted rib bands of the hem and slave cuffs the Sports Center was only 700 meters
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from her family home yarrow was at the Sports Centre often and usually got there by walking on her own there was a
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large sports building much like a school with a big gate many entrances sports courts a running track and a swimming
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pool Yara briefly greeted her instructor and saw some of her gymnastics friends before she did a little training she
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left the building just prior to 6:44 p.m. at 6:44 p.m. Yara sent a text message to her gymnastics friend Martina
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confirming they would meet the following Sunday at 8 a.m. it was the last contact
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Yara had with anyone her mother Maura didn't expect her to be gone long and she kept a close watch on
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the clock by 7:00 p.m. she was worried at 7:11 p.m. she found Yara's phone but the call went straight to voicemail
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20 minutes later Yara's father Fulvio called the police the call was put through to the Public Prosecutor's
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Office in Bergamo where the prosecutor on duty was Leticia Ruggeri Roux Gerry was 45 years old a tough former police
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woman who had earned respect within the force working against the Sicilian Mafia
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in Sicily southern Italy brew Gerry didn't waste time and within 5 minutes of receiving the call had dispatched
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both state police officers ended the Carabinieri military police to their village the family was fraught people
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came out of their houses to help search for Yara the fire department walked the banks of the river police and volunteers
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searched nearby fields abandoned buildings and asked passers-by if they had seen euro the entire Sports Centre
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was searched inside and out Walton Brambilla who is the manager of the Centre said that at midnight the night
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Yara disappeared they were still searching the centre in case she was trapped or hiding as snow started to
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fall that evening Yara's gym instructor Silvia Brenner confirmed the yarra had made it to the gym but she hadn't seen
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her since laticia Ruggeri was the chief investigator on the case she called in tracker dogs a breed of Italian
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bloodhounds to try to track the path where Yara had gone the tracker dogs didn't follow the path back to Yaris
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home instead they trailed off towards map hello a small hamlet three kilometers or 1.8
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miles in the opposite direction by then the team had been able to analyze the last signals from Yara's mobile phone
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her phone had shown a signaling map ello at 6:49 p.m. the evening of her disappearance only five minutes after
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Yara had sent the text message to her friend Martina as she left the Sports Center the police realized that it was
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very likely Yara or at least her phone had traveled by car to where it was last pinged in Marbella
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over the next few days rue Geri and her team questioned every member of the Gambino family looking for signs of
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problems arguments or secrets although sure from the enormous media presence that had descended on their quiet street
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they seemed like a happy close family with nothing to hide the family shared some photographs of Yara with the media
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in the days after her disappearance the outter queuing to take communion doing gymnastics a photo of her in an Italian
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football shirt and a few others but no one came forward with any useful information
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a few people told police they thought they may have seen Yara talking to a couple of people near a red car but it
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was a false lead with no sign of Yara investigators concentrated their efforts on tracking down people whose mobile
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phones have been used to near where she disappeared approximately 15,000 phones were found to have been in the area that
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day police commenced the enormous task of tracing each phone to its owner hundreds of phones were wiretap and what
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would be a record for any investigation in Italy's history tens of millions of phone calls were intercepted crime news
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dominates Italian TV often playing out on television like a soap opera reports can be dramatized and people involved
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hounded for their story not since the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007 had Italian TV Vince
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captivated by an investigation the gambia ratio family lowered their shutters and hid from the prying eyes at
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the national media they refused the torchlight vigil the town hoped to have to raise awareness for Yara's
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disappearance and instead accepted the offer from nuns who taught at yaris school to come and pray with the family
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a Mass was held instead of the vigil and the family pleaded with the public for privacy
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Yara's father Fulvio was criticized for not being out there with the volunteers constantly searching the similar thing
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can be said for many missing persons cases worldwide but people deal with disappearances in many different ways
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and the era's father couldn't face the thought of being the one to come across his daughter's body he occupied his mind
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with video poker games and taking care of his other three children as part of their investigation
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the policeman bugged at the house of fou vo and Maura to track their conversations while intercepting a phone
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call from one of the handsets known to have been in the area on the day an interpreter working for the police
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overheard an alarming call while in mid conversation a Moroccan man Mohammed Fikri was overheard saying forgive me
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God I didn't kill her at the time of Yara's disappearance Vickery had been working in a builder's yard in my pillow
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but by the time the call was intercepted three days later vicki was on board a boat beyond for ten GS three days later
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in early December Italian police intercepted the boat and Fikri was arrested while searching the van he had
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been using police found a blood-stained mattress the blood was tested but what looked
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like to be a promising inquiry quickly fizzled out the blood was found to have nothing to do with the case and shortly
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after news broke that the words overheard by the translator had been mistranslated Fikri was cleared of any
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involvement Rougerie later stated people liked him as the guilty party because it
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was foreign no one wanted to believe that someone from their quiet and peaceful part of the country could be
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responsible for Yara's disappearance surveillance video footage was released showing a vehicle driving past the
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sports center there was a small white utility vehicle with an open back tray this vehicle was captured driving past
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the sports center around the time of Yaris disappearance the same vehicle was also shown to pass several times on
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other days leading up to her disappearance no registration plate was able to be seen on the footage so police released
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images of the vehicle in the hope that either the owner would come forward or someone else who recognized the vehicle
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would come forward a few days after Christmas almost a month since their daughter had disappeared the gambit
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Accio family desperate made a public televised appeal they looked extremely awkward and uncomfortable in front of
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the media Morrow was so uncomfortable she was unintentionally rolling her eyes Fulvio nervously read a plea open the
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door that separates her from her freedom please give us our daughter back we are
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a simple family a household whose unity is based on love respect sincerity and the glow of our peaceful existence for
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the past month we've been asking ourselves endless questions about who what how when and why all this is
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happening to us we are not looking for answers we do not seek to know we are not tormenting ourselves trying to
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understand we're not pointing the finger at anyone we just want immensely fair our daughter to return to her world to
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her village to her home to the embrace of those who love her we begged the compassion of the people who have taken
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yara we ask them to find some spark of love in their conscience look her in the eyes and open the door or gate that
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separates her from her freedom we beseech you to give us our daughter back help us to peace our daily lives back
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together again help us to rebuild our normality people know us we have never done all we steal on anyone
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we have always shown we're an open transparent family ready to help others we do not deserve to continue our life
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without Yara's smile thank you rumors started the flyer that this may have been a retaliation abduction the
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media started to report that Yara's father had testified against a mafia member in Naples but it wasn't long
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before these rumors were confirmed to be completely false on the 25th of February
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2011 three months after Yara went missing a middle-aged man named Ilario Scotty found an open field in the small
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town of chignon de Sala to fly a remote-controlled aeroplane he had just bought the town is ten kilometres
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southwest over Brembo tied to sopra and is surrounded by industrial estates spare Lots fields and scrub as he flew
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the remote-controlled aircraft Ilario discovered it wasn't working properly so he landed it amongst some
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tall grass as he walked over to pick it up he saw what he thought was some rags and rubbish on the ground that was until
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he saw the pair of shoes it was Yara's body her body was frozen but showed some signs of decomposition as deep parts of
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her clothing this particular field had already been searched in the days after Yara's disappearance the police
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speculated that the killer had dumped her body after knowing they had already searched that she appeared to have been
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attacked with a very sharp cunning object and there were several cuts on her body
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some were deep Chief Inspector who Jerry had spent that day skiing with her daughter and was on the drive home when
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she got the call that a body had been found she dropped her daughter off at home and went straight to the crime
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scene in a way Rougerie felt relieved she told a journalist the era's disappearance had really disturbed me on
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the mother tube and the only thing worse than the death of a child is the disappearance of a child the scene was
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filled with state police officers Carabinieri military police members and crime scene investigators near the body
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they found Yara's iPod and house keys they found the SIM card and battery for her LJ phone but the phone itself was
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missing forensic evidence was found at the scene and swabs were taken there had been many
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days of snow in the three months since Yarra went missing and the freezing temperatures had helped to preserve some
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of the forensic evidence that may have ordinarily been destroyed the autopsy was conducted by Italy's most famous
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forensic pathologist professor Christina cataneo she discovered traces of line-in
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Yara's respiratory tract into the presence of a vegetable fiber used to make a rope on Yaris clothing she
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suffered a head injury possibly inflicted with a rock and several blows to the body she had also been stabbed in
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numerous times but it was determined that she didn't die from the lacerations or from loss of blood
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it appeared Yara had died from exposure to the cold weather after she lost consciousness it was noted in the report
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that the presence of lime and the rope fibers suggested that the killer might be in the building trade two months
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later in April the commander of the scientific investigations department in Parma foundry Gerry I've got good news
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he told her this murder has a signature we found male DNA on the underwear of Yara he reported it was likely that the
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murderer had himself been wounded in the struggle leaving his DNA on Yara's underwear this led them to the theory
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that it was likely the attacker had attempted to assault Yara but she had given a good fight and stopped him or
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maybe his intentions were interrupted in some other way there was no sign of sexual assault it was confirmed that
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Yara had likely been dumped unconscious and died of exposure on the 28th of May three months after the discovery Yara's
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body was handed back to the gamba dasya family for her funeral on that hot morning thousands lined the streets
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leading up to the sports center she had disappeared from as the hearse slowly drove by and on lookers saw the white
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coffin topped with a huge bouquet of white flowers there wailing cries turned into loud cheers as the community gave
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Yara an emotional send-off the funeral was held by the Bishop of Bergen a message was read out from the
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president of the Italian Republic and outside those who couldn't fit in the gymnasium lying to the carpark and
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straight to watch the memorial on a giant screen the RO was buried between her two grandparents in a cemetery just
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across the road from the Sports Centre there's no date on her headstone just a signature next to a photograph of her
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friends have left mementos like Tim's shoes metal flowers rag dolls plastic angels into little bracelets after the
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funeral police gave a statement and that was not just intended to put yaris family and the public at ease that they
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would find the killer but it was also intended to scare the person responsible scare them so that they knew the
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investigators had good forensic evidence they said despite exposure to the wind rain and snow
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those two DNA traces were excellent and we were able to exclude saliva and sperm
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so that leaves blood it was a message to the killer that they had a solid piece of DNA and they would spare no expense
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in both time and costs to hunt him down the killer was given a nickname unknown one into the investigation to find
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unknown one kicked into overdrive the search for unknown one included alongside Ruggeri a select team of eight
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special agents who despite huge media pressure maintained utter silence throughout the investigation the media
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were like vultures over this case and if they weren't prepared to risk any leads
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getting out the largest DNA dragnet in Italy's history was about to unfold they continued to tap the phones of thousands
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of people and called for the public's help the volunteered DNA samples to catch Jared's killer
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classmates families of classmates friends and members of the community came forward grew jere felt lucky she
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didn't have to get any court orders to obtain DNA from any person as everyone they contacted was willing it is
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believed that up to 22,000 people from the area volunteered their DNA this raised a few eyebrows across Italy
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with people believing the investigators were haphazard and had no focus in their
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investigation Ruggeri was publicly called incompetent and some even asked for her to be replaced as the head of
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the investigation she wasn't your expected lead investigator but she was tough and she was like a dog at a bone
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amongst all the backlash she kept it cool she reassured the community she knew what she was doing she divided up
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the responsibilities amongst the team the first person to give DNA samples were family members then H owner of the
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phone numbers who had made or received calls or messages to Yara were tracked down and DNA was requested from them the
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net then moved outward into the community the DNA matching was slow work it took different geneticists in Parma
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pavia and Rome a minimum of six hours to transform just a few samples of DNA into
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something which could be read and compared the costing materials and manpower made this investigation one of
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the most expensive manhunts in Italian history as the investigation continued police placed hidden cameras at Yara's
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grave site in case her killer visited they then turned their sights to a nightclub in the estate nearby to where
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Yara's body was found called La Ceiba mo Billy for quick sin luckily for the investigation managers of the nightclub
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had a policy of creating membership cards for anyone who entered complete with phone numbers
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investigators work through all of the people who had visited the nightclub around the time of the era's
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disappearance they request the DNA samples and we're in luck they found one of the people who volunteered had DNA
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closely resembling the prime suspect unknown one the owner of the sample that resembled unknown one was a twenty year
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old man named Damiano quarry Oni he was quickly excluded as the suspect as he'd been in South America when Yara
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disappeared and his DNA wasn't an exact match but what was clear was that he was
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a close blood relative of unknown one brew Gerry and her team were ecstatic they felt it would only be a matter of
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days before they would have the murderer behind bars it didn't take long for the
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team to track down dummy owners family Ruggieri was shot to find that damiano's mother Aurora had actually worked for
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Yaris family for ten years as a housemate Aurora lived nearby and had been at Yara's house twice a week since
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she was a baby Aurora Yara were very close to Yara always asked Aurora issued what to do
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gymnastics routines and Aurora who was very protective of Yara was forever telling her to be careful when
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investigators questioned Aurora she said that it was the worst thing that had ever happened to her she was distraught
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police didn't tell her that her son Damiano had been identified as being a close blood relative of the killer
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police had Aurora and Damiano followed they bugged their house and tapped their phones but after months of surveillance
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in the summer of 2011 the investigators realized they weren't connected to the murder
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this didn't alter the fact that damiano's DNA was so similar to unknown one dummy Ono's father joseph was one of
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eleven one by one the investigators spoke to each of damiano's uncles and aunts and retrieved two DNA samples one
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of dummy Arno's uncle's his father's brother Giuseppe had died in 1999 after clearing through the rest of the family
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police still needed to rule out the family of they contacted the widow of Giuseppe
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Laura she showed them a box of documents that had belonged to her husband in the
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hopes that they could find something to gain his DNA from considering he had died many years before Yara's murder
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Laura didn't feel too worried in the box they found an envelope with a stamp on it
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they also found a postcard he had sent to his family they knew there was a high chance he had licked the stamps meaning
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they would have his DNA they were able to confirm it was Giuseppe who had licked the stamps enter the DNA sequence
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was an even closer match to unknown one than his nephew dummy honours this meant
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Giuseppe was the father of the cure the team started to build the picture of Giuseppe and his family Laura and
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Giuseppe seemed to have had a conventional marriage Giuseppe had been a local bus driver who also enjoyed
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playing the accordion at local festivals together they had three children the daughter and two sons the investigators
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focused on the two sons as they knew the killer was male but DNA checks showed that neither man was unknown 1 and 2
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neither of them had children of their own the forensics team was convinced that Giuseppe was the father of unknown one
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so that left only one possibility somewhere out there was the illegitimate son of Giuseppe in order to make
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absolutely sure investigators had to have his body assumed from its vault in the local
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cemetery and another DNA test was performed that was confirmed again Giuseppe was the father of unknown one
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police were near making a complete u-turn in their investigation instead of searching for a man they were searching
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for a woman the killer's mother a woman possibly in her sixties who had had an affair with Giuseppe decades earlier got
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pregnant and went on to have Giuseppe son who then went on to kill Yara the team got to work investigating the bus
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routes Giuseppe used to drive a fellow bus driver remembered him and told the police yes he was a ladies man lots of
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young women on his bus to work one at least he got into trouble another bus driver said he was a man
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with a capital M News ended up getting out that police were searching for the mother of unknown one who had had an
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affair and the media lost it it turned into a soap opera in all the media excitement police reminded the public
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that amongst all the speculation finger-pointing and gossip a young girl had been murdered in the summer of 2013
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in the nearby city of Rove staff at the hospital chapel came across a confession
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in their visitors book usually reserved for the thoughts and prayers of sick loved ones or thanks for the help of
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doctors they were shocked to find handwritten inside told the police of Bergamo that the killer of yarrow
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ganbaatar Accio was here may God forgive me police stated whether the letter was
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written by a compulsive liar or not it is important that we do not stop investigating we have a duty to give
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answers to a family that has waited in silence to know the truth by mid of 2013 the life of a young Giuseppe began to
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unfold he had moved to villages in the mid-1960s and he drove a public bus for almost two decades where he would drive
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numerous women to their jobs in the local textile factories they searched orphanages and homes for single mothers
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testing everyone they could find but turned up nothing they realized that there was a high chance that the woman
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they were searching for was married to someone else and had the child in secret there were five hundred and thirty two
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women listed as possibly being the woman who was a mother of unknown one the team
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began the task of tracking down each one as police conducted their hunt for the mother of unknown one the villages
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surrounding Bergamo was searched conversations and whispers leading police from one house to the next
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one-by-one talking to each woman on their list of over 500 in the small villages older people still lived like
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long ago some with home phones some without most were reserved but some openly questioned the tactics police
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were using by now it was June 2014 three and a half years after Yara had disappeared the
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killer only had to drive three hours and he could be in France Switzerland Austria or Slovenia the chance of the
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killer still being in the hilltop villages of Lombardy seemed unlikely but police were persistent and one day they
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finally got a name it was apparently given reluctantly in a whisper esta azul fear in the late 1960s esta had been
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Giuseppe's neighbor she married a man named Giovanni bisetti from a nearby village Giovanni was the total opposite
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testa Esther was fun and outgoing Giovanni was an inward man who kept in tighly to himself he suffered from
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arthritis and depression Esther had a job in a textile factory and rode the bus to work every day Esther and
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Giovanni had brought up three children twins amend and a woman now in their early 40s and another son brew Jerry's
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team checked their records and found that two years earlier in 2012 Esther had actually given her DNA for testing
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voluntarily during the sweep of the area police had already done but an error had
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been made by geneticists in Rome the lab technician had tried to match esters and presumably others DNA to
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Yaris instead of the unknown one therefore the result came up no match they rushed to retest as this sample and
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confirmed that Esther now in her sixties was the woman they had been searching for she was the mother of unknown one
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she and Giovanni lived in Brembo Tate dis opera the investigation had done a full circle back to the small village
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Yara had lived it and disappeared from Esther denied ever having an affair with Giuseppe but the police knew her sons
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were born in the right time period one son was quickly ruled out the other who was the male of the twins
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Massimo ba city was a 42 year old married father of three he lived in my pillow where the last signal from Yara's
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phone pinged he was a bricklayer and had not given a DNA sample during the investigation a slim man who
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was once known for his love to party Massimo was nicknamed the animal by his friends he was short and very tenth with
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piercing blue eyes and a peroxide at pencil goatee Bru Gerry and her team moved quickly but they had to be careful
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they had already made one incorrect arrest and would not be making another they decided not to ask Massimo for his
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DNA sample in case he disappeared while waiting for the results they placed him under surveillance and observed these
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movements within a few days they decided the best approach would be to set up a roadblock near his house for Rendon
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breath testing this way they could collect his DNA without him suspecting anything
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Massimo was driving home with his wife and three children when he was stopped by police the officer knew exactly what
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he was doing he pretended the first breath test didn't work and so performed the second one the officers now had two
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sets of Massimo's DNA and a Massimo had no idea the random breath test was actually a test to confirm if he had
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murdered Yara the following day on the 16th of June 2014 rue jury received the call she had
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been waiting for massimo bisetti was unknown 1 the results showed 21 compatible markers 16 to 17 are normally
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considered enough meaning the forensic experts were completely sure that Massimo was the murderer Esther's
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husband Giovanni would learn that his wife had actually had more than one affair Massimo and his twin sister were
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not biologically his actual but neither was their third child who was also fathered by another man
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Giovanni learned this on the same day he found out Massimo was being arrested for
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the murder of euro whose case had captivated the country for nearly four years Laure Giuseppe's widow was shocked that
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her husband had fathered children while having an affair during their search for
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unknown one police actually unearthed a number of secret affairs and infidelities in the small villages of
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the area in two small villages alone five other illegitimate children were uncovered in different households people
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still criticize the hunt for unknown ones mother mainly the length of time it took in the leaks to the press
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throughout the search many thought the search should have been kept more closely guarded many felt Massimo would
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be unable to get a fair trial as he had already been found guilty by media Italy's privacy watchdog criticized the
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way the investigation into the parents of unknown one had been conducted they said in a statement
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not even the public interest legitimizes the media frenzy over intimate personal
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details such as to create irreparable damage to family life and the personal relations the afternoon after the match
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was confirmed the 16th of June 2014 Massimo was working on the second story of a local construction site when a
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group of the Carabinieri the military police pulled up they climbed the scaffolding and placed
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Massimo under arrest in front of a group of confused two co-workers he was then escorted down to the ground taken away
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and charged with the iris murder he had no prior criminal record he denied any involvement and claimed he
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was innocent the Italian Minister of Internal Affairs Angelino Alfano announced the arrests on
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Twitter saying the murderer of yarra has finally been apprehended misawa's wife made a statement that her
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and their young children were at home with Massimo the evening of the murder Massimo claimed that he suffered from
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nosebleeds and that someone had stolen his work tools including a knife and a towel possibly blood-stained because of
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his nosebleeds in October 2011 while the search for unknown one was still happening doubts had arisen over the
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forensic evidence produced in the first trial of Amanda Knox and her boyfriend for the murder of Meredith Kercher this
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doubt swayed the jury of two judges and six civilians to acquit them of the murder and they were freed Italy was
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reeling in the wake of questionable policing and poor investigation techniques into the entire country was
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watching every moment of the yarra investigation the lab who conducted the testing in Yara's case released the
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statement the important fact is that this man's DNA is the same as the DNA found on Yara the statement also noted
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that the odds of anyone else sharing the same genetic profile was one person out
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of two billion of billions of billions or practically non-existent the last piece of the puzzle fell into place when
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the investigators matched Massimo's vehicle to the small white utility vehicle that had been spotted on the
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security footage surrounding the Sports Centre on the days leading up to enter the afternoon of euros disappearance the
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last time the utility was seen in the footage was just a few minutes before Yara disappeared massimo argued that he
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just happened to drive by the sports center on his way home from work that they are a disappeared but police
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confirmed that he didn't go to work that day investigators used telephone records
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surveillance video and testimony from colleagues to rebut his alibi the crime lab took his utility and
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pulled it apart for forensic testing Messimer is defense team requests that he be released cryo to trial the court
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denied this request and confirmed that Massimo would remain in custody until his trial he remained in jail throughout
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his preliminary hearing and by the time his trial commenced on Friday the 3rd of
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July 2015 he had been in for over a year the trial was held at the Cordova sizess
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of Bergamo Massimo had not moved from his claim of innocence people were surprised that facing such clear DNA
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evidence against him he still swore he was innocent his wife testified he was home having
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dinner with her in their kids at the time of the murder the trial would include 60 thousand
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pages of records of inquiry 120 witnesses were called the testify for the prosecution Massimo's defense
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said they had seven hundred and eleven witnesses as well as about 50 experts and consultants the court made them cut
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this down to a total of 160 people Silvia Brenner who is Yara's gym instructor face scrutiny at the trial
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when she became a focus of Massimo defense team on the night of Yara's disappearance Sylvia's father confirmed
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that Silvia cried all night with no explanation she could also not explain why she and her brother had sent text
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messages to each other at the time of the era's disappearance which they almost immediately deleted but they
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didn't delete any other messages a bombshell was then dropped in the courtroom something that had never come
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out before the trial and the reason why Silvia became the defense team's hot ticket the forensic lab noticed what
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they called dark halos indicating the presence usually of blood on the slave car for the RS bomber jacket when
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testing the stain they discovered that the DNA belonged to Silvia it was confirmed that there was no way for this
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DNA to have been left this contact DNA and after three months in the elements it had to have been significant fluid
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such as blood Silvia was criticized for answering I don't know to at least ten questions on
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the witness stand including how her DNA got on Yara's sleeve cuff Massimo's defense lawyer
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also contested the DNA evidence matched to Massimo and the lack of mitochondrial
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DNA found in the sample on Yara the crucial piece of DNA evidence collected from Yara's underwear was a clear match
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for Massimo SH nuclear DNA but his mitochondrial DNA did not show up in the sample DNA can be divided into two types
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nuclear DNA which is the DNA contained in the cell's nucleus and the content is inherited half by the father and half by
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the mother of any individual and mitochondrial DNA contained in the mitochondria of the cell that is
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inherited only by one's own mother who in turn got it from her mother and so on mitochondrial DNA mutates very very
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slowly much slower than nuclear DNA this means that it is nearly identical to that of your straightline maternal
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ancestors who lived thousands of years ago and because of this it can match many others including sisters aunts and
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grandparents this type of DNA which can be extracted during DNA tests is not necessarily restricted to a single
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individual like a nuclear DNA years captain stains and Fabiano gentile who carried out the genetic analysis on
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unknown one spoke at length on the DNA in a report of almost 1300 pages they proved the validation of the nuclear DNA
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they defined at the sample as a perfect and complete profile with no margin of error they also showed that the lack of
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mitochondrial DNA present was not important and it wasn't just the DNA evidence the prosecution was relying on
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there was other circumstantial evidence which tied in Bru Gerry and her team examined Massimo's computer after his
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arrest what they found painted a picture of a man who was interested in young girls
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Massimo regularly hung out around Yara's house and the Sports Center where she trained he was seen on security footage
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circling the gym on different days parking nearby on some occasions he was also seen on footage eating at a
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pizzeria at the end of Yaris Road he visited a tanning salon nearby to the Sports Center twice a week and his phone
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was found to have been in the area many times in the lead-up to Yaris disappearance and also nearby on the
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afternoon she disappeared Massimo had switched his phone off at 5:45 p.m. the day yarra disappeared and he did not
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switch it back on again until 7:30 4:00 a.m. the next morning they also had the footage of him driving past the entrance
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of the Sports Center just minutes before Yara went missing and that the fibers found in Yara's wounds were compatible
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with the fibers on the seats found in Massimo's vehicle the argument from Massimo that his tools have been stolen
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along with the bloody towel was thrown out as it was discovered that he had actually reported his tool stolen two
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years after Yaris murder a local woman testified that around 7:00 p.m. on the day yara disappeared she was
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taking out the garbage at her home near boy she saw a vehicle matching Massimo's
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dropped by at high speed she saw a young person inside but she was unsure if it was a boy or girl she heard screaming
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coming from the vehicle and it was cut off mid scream as she looked up she had gone to police and given them this
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information as soon as she heard of Yaris disappearance three witnesses came forward who contradicted Massimo's claim
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that he only ever spent his evenings with his wife and children on the first of July 2016 the Assizes
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Court of Bergamo reached their verdict masa mobile city was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the
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murder of yara gamba Rocio the court also ordered compensation amounting to 1.3 million euros be paid 400,000 euros
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to each of Yara's parents 150,000 euros for each sibling not euros and 18,000 euros for lawyers the day after his
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verdict was read Massimo received a visit from his wife in prison she went alone without their children the gambia
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ratio family meanwhile remained as quiet and as private as they had always been they presented a gymnastics trophy in
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Yara's name shortly after Massimo immediately filed an appeal almost three months after he was sentenced the
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Bergamo Court of Appeals denied his appeal and published an explanation for the sentence they had originally placed
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the entire document is 158 pages part of it reads Yara's killing was a homicide of unprecedented gravity that took place
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in the context of a series of sexual advances which the girl likely rejected unleashing a violent and sadistic
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reaction the physical torments inflicted on the victim and the moral and subjective cruelty with which the
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defendant appeased is drive to cause pain in absence of feelings of compassion and pity are indicative of
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his evil spirit the presence of the defendants DNA is what proves his guilt that fact which is the void of any
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ambiguity and cannot be read in any alternative way has not been disproved or placed into doubt by any evidence
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gathered by the defense the murder of Yara Gambier Osseo turned on its head the lives of many families Giuseppe's
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widow and their children learned that he had been unfaithful and had fathered other children one of whom was a
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murderer not long after the reclusive Giovanni learned that his wife of over 40 years esta had numerous of his his
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three children were not his own one of those children had brought up was a convicted murderer he was diagnosed
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with terminal cancer Esther still denies she had an affair massimo beset e's marriage didn't just
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suffer the effects of a husband and father convicted of murder but two people came forward and claimed they had
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had affairs with his wife máximos twin sister was beaten up twice following the trial although sylvia
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Brenna's DNA being found on Yara's cuff was an explosive development and something the defense relied heavily
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upon to try and create reasonable death police played it down and stated silvia was never a suspect she was looked at
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thoroughly and cleared it's unclear if she ever gave an explanation to police about the DNA or how exactly she was
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cleared but she walks Yara's family were surprised to learn it was Aurora their housemaid and friend
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for over a decade who was one of the first links in the long and winding trail to locate unknown one and justice
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