Gianna Del GaudioDaniela Roveri, Yara Gambirasio, Sharon Verzeni: they are the names of the women – in the case of Yara of a girl – killed in a radius of less than 50 kilometers. This made the public opinion of the existence of a serial killer suspect in the Bergamo area, but of course things are very differently, and not only because for Yara there is a man sentenced in three degrees of judgment and for Sharon there He is a young man who has confessed and is waiting for trial.
There are many elements for which to doubt a serial killer, but it is undeniable that in addition to the geographical closeness, the end of Gianna del Gaudio and that Daniela Roveri have something in common. Starting from the fact that both are unsolved cases. “The only motive that comes to mind is a commissioned murder. I certainly wouldn’t talk about serial killer, who convinces very little very little, “he says in IlGiornale Chiara Cameraniexpert psychologist in criminology and sex psychopathology, director of Cepic (European Center Psychology Investigation Criminology) and university professor.
Gianna del Gaudio’s murder
It is August 26, 2016, the day of Sant’Alessandro. At Gianna Del Gaudio’s house, there is a family dinner because it is the name day of one of the daughters -in -law. Gianna is 63 years old, she has been a retired teacher married for decades with Antonio Tizzania former notch he also retired. After midnight, when children and daughter -in -law have just returned home, Gianna goes to the kitchen to reappear, while her husband starts to water the flowers in the garden.
Then a scream tears at night: as the court would have subsequently established, it is the voice of Tizzani, who finds a hooded man In the house intent on rummaging in the wife’s bag and subsequently sees Gianna pour to the ground, in a pool of blood. He calls 118 and his son excited and desperate, but for Gianna there is nothing to do: he died in the first remnants of August 27th.
“When a crime is committed – Camerani clarifies – a cost -benefit assessment is usually made. Her husband Antonio Tizzani spoke of a hypothetical attacker who would have tried to rob Mrs. Gianna Del Gaudio. The house was not completely isolated: at midnight the son and the daughter -in -law leave the house, and midnight and forty Tizzani contacts him to report that the mother suffered an attack. So we have an author who, within thirty minutes, would have waited for people to go out – then with the risk of finding other alarm clocks – to go to attack a retired former retired teacher. To steal what? Only one necklace. Leave a little perplexed at the level of motive, risk and mode. A small criminal is unlikely to take on such a responsibility to steal so little. The explanation that is learned from the press leaves many doubts. “
The investigators immediately put themselves at work, but they do not find the crime weapon on the crime scene. The weapon is found in the following days not far from home, inserted in an envelope, which previously contained mozzarella, together with a pair of latex gloves: it is a cuttera cutter. The killer hit Gianna in the throat, attacking her behind, with that: a single very powerful blow, so much so that the tip of the weapon broke when he met the cervical vertebra. From the house nothing is missing, with the exception of a necklace that Gianna always wore, but there are no signs of tearing on her neck. Everything would take place in a few minutes.
The hooded man
Who is the hooded man who described Antonio Tizzani? One of the daughter -in -law would have told at home that, at night, on several occasions, he would have seen a hooded man under his house. But in court Then he would explain that he had invented everything for fear of being at night alone in a new house, while the husband, who works by rail as his father had done, carried out the shifts at night.
So the investigators wonder: did the hooded man ever existed? They initially believe no, and they refer to Tizzani for murder, also because i Ris of Parma find one on the cutter trail of DNA of man on one of the very few parties not bloody. In addition, some witnesses speak of an alleged violent altercation.
The trial of her husband Antonio Tizzani
The hypothesis that is ventilated to the process is that Tizzani could have drunk a glass of too much and that, after one quarrel With his wife, he would have hit her. But at the end of the first degree trial in 2020 and the second degree in 2022, the conclusion to which the judges arrive is one: Tizzani is acquitted for not having committed the fact. “My version has always been the same and I will repeat it indefinitely because it is the truth. In all these years I have never stopped believing in justice, also because I am the son of a policeman. To my wife I address a thought: that you help to find her killer“, Said Tizzani, as the day reports.
For the judges the DNA on the cutter is a “mere clue“(So he did not even exclude the contamination), while the testimonies of a dispute are dismantled: why would the witnesses have heard the dispute but not the arrival of the ambulance after the call of Tizzani? Furthermore, according to the legal results, the killer should have been stronger and more impressive than the victim, while Gianna Del Gaudio and Antonio Tizzani would not have presented major differences in terms of physicality. In addition, Tizzani after the murder is completely clean and nobody washed in that house.
The crime remains without guilty. “There have been many searches in the house under seizure, many technical investigations and interceptions. The investigations had an accusatory approach: from the beginning they have always been one -way against Tizzani. I am not explaining why the investigations were not carried out at 360 degrees“, Commented to Fanpage Giovanna Agnelli, Tizzani’s lawyer.
The murder of Daniela Roveri
A few months after the murder of Gianna del Gaudio, however, another murder happens just 7 kilometers away. Is that of Daniela Roveri48 -year -old manager, who is killed a ColognolaBergamo district on December 20, 2016. The mode is similar to that used by Gianna’s killer: Daniela is attacked behind and the attacker’s cutting the carotid with so much strength that the woman seems almost beheaded to the rescuers. Daniela’s bag is missing on the crime scene, with her smartphone, but you think of a sidetracking.
“In the speech of seriality there is often also an analysis, a particular victimology – explains Camerani – here we have different people with different ages, in different conditions. The only thing in common are the attacks in the evening, quick, but if we were probably the same evaluation in any area of Italy, perhaps we would find several cases of similar murder. There must be common elements to be able to make a case linking and here there are no victimological point of view particular common elements: the only common element is stabbing, but since we are in a nation where, fortunately, weapons Fire are prohibited, the one with the knife is generally one of the most common murder modes, so we do not have such a discriminating element. Furthermore, there is no ritual element “.
There would therefore be no one serial killer: “The only element that could suggest a serial killer – but I repeat I have very serious doubts – it is that of the person who comes to commit such a serious act to get something so little precious, so he does not kill for a profit but It would seem more to satisfy personal pleasure. Statistically speaking, in that case the objects taken away are souvenirs. Not even a fetish, because the sexual elements are missing in these murders “, known Camerani.
However, there is an interesting parallelism between the two unsolved cases: on the cutter that killed Gianna and on the scene of Daniela’s crime, a male DNA is found which, compared, indicates the presence of the same aplotype y. It may mean everything and may not mean anything: it is a suggestion potentially to be explored, but not necessarily this trait in common indicates the same killer. In other words, there could be two killers, perhaps distant relatives with each other. “Regarding DNA, I would say that the best thing would be to confront a technician: sometimes public opinion starts with intuitive things that seem obvious, but it is not always the case”, adds Camerani.
The murders of the Gaudio and Roveri therefore remain unsolved, but in the light of the fact that more and more Cold Case They are reopened, the last word is not called.
“I do not see why in the future it is not possible to reach a solution of the case: we always and in any case make advances from a scientific point of view, so it is not said that we will not be able to be even more defined and clear on DNA or anything”, concludes Camerani .