Rimini, October 27, 2021 – It is March 8, 2011. Vanessa De Gasperi, a 27-year-old girl from Santarcangelo, suffering from mental problems that had led to her interdiction, escapes from a clinic in San Marino. Of her, from that moment on, no trace anymore. Nothing swallows it. Ten years pass, during which the family members – the brothers Silvio, Marco and sister Evelyn – do not stop looking for her. Last September 15, in Torraccia, on the Titano, a passer-by notice a skull at the edge of the road. No doubt: it is a human skull. The Gendarmerie proceeds with the kidnapping. That macabre discovery has now rekindled the hopes of Vanessa’s parents and the lawyers of the Penelope association, Emanuela Guerra and Elena Guidi.

“Currently, checks are underway – explains the lawyer Guerra – We await the outcome of carbon dating, which should allow us to locate the death of the person to whom the skull belonged. in a very specific time frame. At that point, based on the results, we will evaluate whether to submit a request for genetic comparison “. For the lawyers it is a dutiful act:” Vanessa’s relatives – continues the War – have never surrendered to the official explanation that had been was provided at the time, meaning that it was a simple voluntary removal. They want the truth. Even in our view, the story was liquidated too quickly, without the necessary in-depth analysis. There are many, too many things that don’t add up. For example, the last person who claims to have seen the girl it has never been heard by the investigators“.

Vanessa, remember the lawyers, she had been transferred from a Marche facility to San Marino on 1 March 2011. Yet “neither her family members nor the guardian appointed by the court were aware of it. For what reason?”. According to the reconstruction made at the time, “the girl would have run away of her own free will, after breaking down the panic door. “Here is the other big question:” That day, March 8, it was snowing. So why did Vanessa, if it is a voluntary escape, bring nothing with her, bag, coat and cell phone? “And then there is the mystery of the 27-year-old’s computer: the expert, appointed by the Rimini public prosecutor, in 2017 discovers The revelation, however, is not enough to turn the investigation round. Once again, as happened in the past, they end up running aground. They wait, and hope that the long-pursued answer will come from the exams.