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Split Thread The Sarah Scazzi murder case

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Update on the Sarah Scazzi murder case, another Italian murder for which the prosecutors have proposed an unlikely motive, an unlikely scenario, and, apparently, a mountain of implausible evidence, too.

The murder trial for Sabrina and her mother, Cosima, will begin on January 10. There's a detailed summary of the case---the personalities, media coverage, and evidence--- HERE. By the way, one of those personalities also involved in the Kercher murder case---a consultant and frequent television expert, and co-author of Darkness Descending---Luciano Garofano, is under criminal investigation for fraud and embezzlement against the state.

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A strange and scary case

Update on the Sarah Scazzi murder case, another Italian murder for which the prosecutors have proposed an unlikely motive, an unlikely scenario, and, apparently, a mountain of implausible evidence, too.
Fine,

Thanks for the update. That the town itself would become a party to the legal proceedings is one of the stranger things I have heard in some time.
 
For those of us who don't speak Italian, could you post a link to an unbiased English summary or website? Google Translate leaves much to be desired. And is it your position that someone else has been railroaded by Italian justice, or that a case similar to Amanda Knox's was investigated differently (or similarly), or that there is some connection between the two cases, or something else?
 
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Fine,

Thanks for the update. I was just recently thinking of starting a thread on this fascinating case. I look fwd to learning more about it.

Question, is the whole town still suing for slander? I found that idea amazing and something that would only happen in Italy. :)
 
This is from the above link:

"... The case of Sarah Scazzi ... started with Sarah's mysterious disappearance, out of the blue in the middle of a normal afternoon in a small town in Avetrana, in Southern Italy. The media latched onto the case right away and soon the entire country was emotionally involved in the search for the teenager. Weeks went by and every member of the family, starting with Sarah's mother, as well as her uncle and aunt and cousin, paraded themselves on television. Sarah's family were soon welcomed as guests on the most important TV talk shows.... Italians sympathized with the family and the overall situation, but sadly no news came. It appeared as if Sarah Scazzi had simply disappeared.

Every possibility went through the mind of Sarah's mom, Concetta Serrano, who tried to stay strong, continuing to appear on television supported by her relatives. Just as things seemed to really stagnate .... Sarah's uncle--the husband of Sarah's mother's sister--found Sarah's cell phone in a field that he owned. This was the same uncle who could be found almost daily on television crying on the shoulder of Sarah's mother.

The finding of the cell phone marked a new round of questions from the police and sparked curiosity as to how it could have ended up in the field, so far from the town and in an area belonging to Sarah's uncle. Questions and hypotheses began to sprout up until Sarah's uncle broke down and confessed to not old homicide but raping the corpse afterwards. The story became even more sensational when the official news of Sarah's death was delivered to her mother on live television along with the uncle, Michele Misseri's confession.....

Following the arrest of Sarah's uncle the story took on more twists and turns that a Hollywood mystery. From behind bars Sarah's uncle began to change his story--more than once--until it started to become clear that the uncle's daughter and Sarah's cousin, Sabrina, was involved. Later, it was rumored that Sarah's aunt also may have had a part in the tragedy. Following months of investigation it was finally discovered that Sarah's cousin and aunt were the ones involved with the actual murder. The reason? Jealousy over a silly relationship Sarah may have had with a local boy that her cousin liked. It appears that Sarah's uncle was not involved in the actual murder and had lied to cover up for his wife and daughter. He did, however, help them hide the body. The disturbing tale of the rape of the corpse also turned out to be a lie to try to confuse the investigation.

As of today all the facts are still not known and the investigation continues...."​

So is this an accurate summary? Are the relatives being framed? What is in dispute?
 
a consultant and frequent television expert, and co-author of Darkness Descending---Luciano Garofano, is under criminal investigation for fraud and embezzlement against the state.


Has Andrea Vogt written about the investigation yet? :p
 
Update on the Sarah Scazzi murder case, another Italian murder for which the prosecutors have proposed an unlikely motive, an unlikely scenario, and, apparently, a mountain of implausible evidence, too.

The murder trial for Sabrina and her mother, Cosima, will begin on January 10. There's a detailed summary of the case---the personalities, media coverage, and evidence--- HERE.

Here's a version that might be easier for English-speakers to read. Or maybe not, but at least some of the words are in English. Then it stops, and goes back into Italian, I cannot figure out why and tried a couple different links. Maybe it's too long? Maybe Google has decided too much google-translated Italian may be hazardous to your health?

By the way, one of those personalities also involved in the Kercher murder case---a consultant and frequent television expert, and co-author of Darkness Descending---Luciano Garofano, is under criminal investigation for fraud and embezzlement against the state.

I didn't see his name mentioned in the part that translated to English. What is he under investigation for? Last I recall of his participation in the Scazzi case he'd gone through thousands of Sabrina's text messages and determined because he found some that jokingly referred to the boyfriend as 'God' that she must be under his spell or something.
 
So is this an accurate summary? Are the relatives being framed? What is in dispute?

Basically after the 'mystery' was solved, they police took the gravedigger into the backroom and got not only his confession, but they then kept going until they got him to admit his daughter was involved, he'd just covered it up. That had been a 'theory' which arose from the ones who didn't like how Sabrina had handled the media attention. There's a minute gap in her constant texting and the assumption that the gravedigger could not have moved something by himself. The evidence all points to Michele, the gravedigger, who'd been molesting the girl and then killed her, but they got him to blame someone else his daughter Sabrina, which in turn led to the mother (his wife) also being 'implicated' when she complained. Frank Sfarzo wrote this summation a year or so ago:

Frank Sfarzo Perugia Shock 11/6/11 said:
These things were reported in the ordinance of the judge or were added later, so the reconstruction is that Sabrina, being obsessed with her love for Ivano, was jealous of Sarah, since Ivano had been kind to her. That’s why Sabrina and Sarah had the big fight in the presence of Mariangela on the 25th.

Next day Sabrina’s rage, instead of cooling down, had increased. And exploded as soon as Sarah arrived at 14:28. Sabrina, indeed, didn’t manage to write the text of 14:28:40 correctly. Maybe while texting she was trying to drag Sarah in the garage, where she immediately strangled her with her hands, or with a rope (or, now, with Michele’s belt).

As soon as she finished, she was finally able to respond to Angela at 15:35; to write to Mariangela at 14:39:26, Pronta!; and to go wait for her, who arrived certainly at 14:42.

Mariangela found Sabrina in the street, because she was coming out of the garage, where she had just killed Sarah. Sabrina, indeed, denies the occurrence, and says she was in the house.

It has been added today that Sabrina, after having killed Sarah, was not only able to write to Angela and Mariangela, but she also went inside to tell Michele, who was sleeping, of the incident that had just occurred.

She told him something like: Papà, I had an argument with Sarah and I killed her. Can you go hide her body because Mariangela is about to come over and we have to go to the beach? At that point they may have gone to the garage where Sabrina had told Michele to look for the body. She then stood on the street waiting for Mariangela to take her away, so to allow Michele’s clean-up.

Mariangela arrived and found Sabrina in the street, ready for the beach, but very upset. Sabrina told her that Sarah was stolen. Indeed she telephoned Sarah but there was no answer, so Sabrina proposed to drive and go look for her. In the car she made a second call which found Sarah’s phone switched off.

While Sabrina and Mariangela were driving around, Cosima and Sabrina were continuously calling each other. Cosima must have told Sabrina to go to the well spot to help Michele, because he couldn’t manage by himself to bury Sarah. So Mariangela dropped Sabrina and Sabrina went to the well spot. How? We don’t know, probably Cosima, Ivano or another friend drove her there (even if we don’t know how they could know where the well was). Sabrina helped Michele with placing the rock on the well, then she ran back to the town, while the very religious man remained to say another Hail Mary.

During the weeks of the search Sabrina sent the anonymous sms to herself, then she showed it to the Carabinieri, so to mislead the investigation. Indeed she, without being asked, revealed what her feelings were about Sarah’s fate: that she was faraway.

Sabrina forgot to consider that Michele was a saint (just a bit corpse-raping) and the sense of guilt for having left Sarah in a well was too strong. That’s why he presented Sarah’s cellphone, so they could look around the area and find the body.

But they didn’t really look. They were suspecting Sabrina and only Sabrina. So they put Michele under duress, in hopes that he would confess Sabrina gave him Sarah’s cellphone.

But he confessed the wrong thing– that Sarah was dead, he had killed her, and Sabrina had nothing to do with it; she didn’t know anything.

Not a problem for the investigators, who, little by little, with the help of Michele’s lawyer and, finally, of the beautiful consultant, brought Michele to accuse Sarah instead of himself.

And the sainthood is gone.

Definitely, if we consider that he raped the body.

After this it starts to get weird. The mother Sabrina, the wife of the gravedigger Michele and the aunt of Sara, also got arrested. At some point a florist claims they saw them stuffing Sara into a car, later that florist decides that was a 'dream' and recants, begging the question of which 'interview' techniques were employed, as that florist ends up being charged like the many others. Like the Knox case a simple murder has led to the 'uncovering' of a sordid conspiracy, the only evidence of which comes from the imaginations of the investigators and what sorts of odd statements they can get out of those they take into those little backrooms.

Eventually this led to the arrest of the mother Cosima, the perp walk led to her being spit upon by the crowd, the townspeople who've decided to take up the civil part against the family in court to ensure they get the maximum punishment. In the meantime the gravedigger recanted and confessed (again) to doing it all himself to no avail, he served six months in prison (for disturbing a crime scene) and still insists he was the one who raped and killed Sara Scazzi but no one will listen to him as they're all entranced by the incredible 'conspiracy' the prosecutor uncovered.

That's just off the top of my head and some of the details might have gotten jumbled.
 
Here's a version that might be easier for English-speakers to read. Or maybe not, but at least some of the words are in English. Then it stops, and goes back into Italian, I cannot figure out why and tried a couple different links. Maybe it's too long? Maybe Google has decided too much google-translated Italian may be hazardous to your health?



I didn't see his name mentioned in the part that translated to English. What is he under investigation for? Last I recall of his participation in the Scazzi case he'd gone through thousands of Sabrina's text messages and determined because he found some that jokingly referred to the boyfriend as 'God' that she must be under his spell or something.
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Kaosium,

The Google translate machine is a bit stupid, and lazy too. Here's the trick to overcome its laziness: Read the initial block of translated text, as seen in your link. (LINK.) Then click the TRANSLATE button again. (The button is on the top of the page.) Additional text will be translated. Read that additional translated text till the end. Then click the TRANSLATE button again. And so forth till the full text has been translated.

Garofano's involvement in the Sarah Scazzi case is discussed, plus his alleged criminal actions are mentioned deep in the article. You'll see.

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Kaosium,

The Google translate machine is a bit stupid, and lazy too. Here's the trick to overcome its laziness: Read the initial block of translated text, as seen in your link. (LINK.) Then click the TRANSLATE button again. (The button is on the top of the page.) Additional text will be translated. Read that additional translated text till the end. Then click the TRANSLATE button again. And so forth till the full text has been translated.

Garofano's involvement in the Sarah Scazzi case is discussed, plus his alleged criminal actions are mentioned deep in the article. You'll see.

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I ran the thing through the toolkit and here is the result:

http://www.injusticeinperugiaforum.org/download/file.php?id=279
 
I have posted links to some of transcripts and documents as well as the audio interrogations of several parties at IIP if any are interested (on the Sarah Scazzi sub forum). The trial has already started with the prosecution trying to establish a jealousy motive with their first few witnesses.

Fine,
Thanks for your interest in this case, I missed this thread for some reason.
 

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