Villa Pamphili, the dead girl would have been strangled

A black bag, the brushwood, The lifeless body of a woman, not far from that of a child. No name, no document. Inside Villa Pamphili in Rome, the face of invisibility has thrown the entire city into a tragic and still unsolved yellow.

The autopsy on the two bodies, anticipated on Sunday evening by the will of the Prosecutor’s Officeclarified that the little girl it would have been strangled. He also had the sign of a blow in the head, but would not have been so violent as to determine his death. The woman, probably her mother, died at least four hours before the girl. On her, no evident sign of violence.

A disturbing detail emerges from the first investigations: several testimonies agree in remembering the two together with a man near the area where the bodies were found. He is now at the center of the investigation, and the police are actively looking for him. An imprint, perhaps his, was isolated on the bag that covered the woman’s corpse. But at the moment there are no feedback in the police databases, where the data of the subjects prejudiced are archived.

The girl was found without clothes, wrapped in a blanket, about two hundred meters from the woman’s body. According to a first reconstruction, The man may have kept the girl with him for a few hours before abandoning herperhaps in the hope that someone will notice it and save her. But this too is just a hypothesis.

The woman’s death would go up at least on Friday evening. Throughout the day on Saturday, until about 19.30, he would remain there, exposed to the sun. Despite the findings made by the scientific police and the comparison with the databases, there are no “traces” of the woman: there are no findings in the personal registers, nor among the missing persons. To help research, images of his will be widespread tattoosa skull on a surf and another floral.

According to the investigations, it would be A mother and daughter of Romanian origin, homelessperhaps two of the people who had attended that part of Villa Pamphili for about three weeks to spend the night. To allow it, an open breach in the fence, never arranged after a road accident in March. A fountain to drink and wash and a discreet amount of clothes in the surroundings, even if some not directly attributable to them seem to confirm this prolonged presence.

Sunday, twice, the scientific police returned to the park. Extended the perimeter of the isolated area, Roomed in the baskets (where documents seem to have been foundnow under consideration by the investigators), sifted the vegetation. Each branch, every brushwood, each path has been examined.

The woman was found next to the fence overlooking Via Leone XIII, a few meters beyond the illegal opening. The girl, however, was more inside. To separate them, a avenue often traveled by runners, families, cyclists. A witness reports that The little girl, wrapped in a blanket, “seemed to sleep.” The scratches and bruises on his body would be compatible with branches and thorns.

The autopsy, performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Catholic University under the supervision of Professor Antonio Oliva, lasted hours. “There are no signs of dragging around the bag,” confirmed an investigative source, confirming that the woman could have died there, where she was found. It may have been caught by an illness, perhaps following an intoxication (it is one of the hypotheses Living in the exam), but even a “sweet” suffocation is not excluded, that is, without visible signs of strangulation.

A toxicological exam has been ordered, whose results will be available in about a month. Meanwhile, the DNA can provide further elements. Investigators are crossing the data with those of the disappeared and homeless people already registered in the neighboring neighborhoods.