Charles Francis Kaufmann’s trolley, what the divers are looking for in the Tiber

He brought him with him at least until June 4thwhen he was photographed with suspicion in the Largo Arenula area. Then Charles Francis Kaufmann got rid of that black trolleywhat the cameras had filmed in the previous days, and which today is at the center of the investigation.

For days the divers of the firefighters, on the mandate of the prosecutor, have been patrolling the Tiber at the height of Ponte Garibaldi. It is there that, according to the public prosecutor Antonio Verdi and the assistant prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini, the Californian 46, arrested in Volos on charges of the double murder of his partner Anastasia Trofimova and his daughter Andromeda, may have thrown his suitcase. The images collected in the previous days show the man wandering several times in that area.

The investigators are convinced that The suitcase can contain key elements to reconstruct what happened between 3 and 7 Junethe week in which the 28 -year -old Russian and his daughter died.

On June 7, their bodies are found between the dry grass of Villa Pamphili, a short distance from each other. Next, just some objects: a blanket, a sleeping bag, diapers. Dresses, personal effects are missing, and the trolley is missingwhich until a few days before was part of the daily life of the three.

When June 11th Charles Francis Kaufmann He takes the plane to Greece, heading to Skiathos under the false name of Rexal Ford, there is no trace of the luggage. The suspicion, now central in the investigation, is that there were inside objects that belonged to Anastasia, perhaps also her cell phone, who disappeared with her. The same mobile phone that, according to the victim’s mother, would have been required by Kaufmann in the previous weeks, as part of a growing control over the young woman, who had a expired EU tourist visa and who had already been isolated by friends and family.

The suitcase could also contain physical traces useful to clarify the dynamics of the facts. For this reason, research in the river does not focus only in the seabed, but also along the docks, in particular in the area between Largo Argentina and Ponte Garibaldi. It is there that the man has been seen often and where, according to some testimonies, he may have slept in the last few days, confusing himself among the homeless.

In the meantime, the Prosecutor’s Office awaits the results of the histological examination on the bodies. The autopsy has already established that the girl has been suffocatedprobably on the night of June 6, perhaps to make it stop crying. His stomach was empty. For the mother, however, the causes of death are still to be clarifiedbut the temporal window is narrowed in which it would have been killed: between 3 and 4 June.