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murderer of
Gambirasio). The first person who had a trace of DNA that had much in common with Ignoto 1 was a young man called Damiano Guerinoni, who was related in some way to Ignoto 1. On 16 June 2014, an Italian bricklayer living and working in the area, Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti, was arrested and accused of being the murderer, mainly by virtue of his DNA matching "Ignoto 1"'s. While the deceased father of "Ignoto 1", Giuseppe Guerinoni, who had died in 1999, was identified relatively quickly thanks to the DNA of Damiano Guerinoni (nephew of Giuseppe Guerinoni), the search for the actual suspect was much longer and complicated because he was an illegitimate son of Guerinoni - a circumstance apparently totally unknown to anyone else previously; the suspect only became the target of investigations after his mother Ester Arzuffi was tested for DNA and the tests showed it likely that the suspect was one of her sons. Because the investigators wanted to observe the suspect for several months before confronting him, the DNA match of Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti with that of "Ignoto 1" was confirmed during an apparently routine
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while that correspondence was found after a further analysis on the illegitimate child - after the suggestion of an acquaintance - of Ester
Arzuffi (the mother of the suspect). If Bossetti appears to be Guerinoni's son, there are still doubts even on the nuclear DNA and its correspondence with the profile of the suspect. The attorney refused, however, to question the evidence, as requested by the lawyers of Bossetti, who have repeated several times the request for release of their client, and asked to declare him not guilty in a future trial. Bossetti's lawyer said that "there is an obvious anomaly, the mitochondrial DNA does not match the nuclear DNA. This should at least make us raise a question: whether the whole process which led to the identification of DNA has been done with the most absolute correctness, or not."
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255:. The first suspect was a young Moroccan man, Mohamed Fikri. He was arrested on the basis of an overheard but mistranslated comment. The comment he made was "Allah, make her answer (the phone)" but it was translated as "Allah forgive me, I didn't kill her" but after other translators listened to what he said, Fikri was declared innocent.
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and the model fell near Yara's body. The man called the police who confirmed it was indeed Yara's corpse in a state of decomposition. The body showed multiple superficial cuts, possibly made by a pointed object such as a nail or a knife, and a large wound on the head. All those wounds were not found
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Forensic scientists analyzed 22,000 DNA profiles from a trace found on Yara's underwear and leggings, eventually leading to the arrest of
Massimo Bossetti, a local construction worker, in June 2014. His DNA matched that of "Ignoto 1," the nickname given to the suspect. Bossetti pleaded not guilty to
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of "Ignoto 1" might not match that of
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An instructor at the gym, Silvia Brena, has been the focus of attention of
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this. Under questioning she said that she remembered nothing and could not explain why she and her brother had sent text messages to each other at the time of Yara's disappearance which they had almost immediately deleted without deleting other messages sent before and after.
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to be lethal by themselves, and she actually died because she was left alone bleeding, during a cold winter, without food and water. There was no clear sign of sexual assault, but DNA traces were found over the upper part of her leggings and her intimate clothing as well.
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the abduction and killing, arguing his DNA was either contaminated or fabricated, but police maintained the sample was of excellent quality. Despite questions about the DNA evidence, Bossetti was sentenced to life imprisonment by the
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report had not been released, and the exact cause of death was undetermined, but leaked details suggested the death resulted from a head blow, non-lethal cuts, and hypothermia. Yara's funeral was held on 28 May 2011, led by Bishop
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