The hunt for the perfect guilty and the investigation ended in a quagmire - news - Repubblica.it The hunt for the perfect guilty and the investigation ended in a quagmire - news - Repubblica.it The investigation has many holes as there are in the belly of Gravina in Puglia. His father was the culprit and it looks like a perfect bad legal mess that you are going to reveal about the death of Francesco and Salvatore, the siblings found in a deep cave. Errors, mistakes, uncertainties investigation.
The "case" is told mainly from a sentence of two lines written by those judges who have decided to Bari's arrest for killing father of his children. It is on page 165 of the order of arrest against Filippo Pappalardi: "It will be his care, if you will, explain to this court where he took them, and especially, where they are now." Prosecutors have virtually asked the accused to provide evidence that they had not found. It is the synthesis of an investigation, the summary of seventeen months of research.
is the end of November 2007, the violent father has just been in prison for having killed the two children, the investigation is closed and surprisingly quickly - 15 minutes ago is the fact that Angela Aliani, the lawyer Pappalardi - The Court of Review confirmed the plant accusatory indicating the truck driver in the violent murderess of Salvatore and Francesco.
"Filippo Pappalardi can not confess what he has done is incredible, prosecutors say he was the one to kill her children but does not prove it with deeds," the lawyer accuses always Aliani after reading the papers on ' arrest of her father master. And the complaint, after the Court of Review: "These judges have no shame, just over a quarter of an hour to decide on such a complex situation, it means that they already knew how it would end before going into closed session: scandalous ".
must begin to rebuild from the end of this investigation that always staggers more after the discovery of little bodies, their position at the bottom of the well (they were distant from each other, an unmistakable sign that they were still alive, one of them moved at least fifty feet), place inaccessible without being seen by someone, a fracture of the femur of the older child. We need to start from that order of custody when the judges come to the murderer. Interpreting intercepted words badly. Believing in a hurry late testimony. Get carried away by suggestions that now seem to hazard hypothesis contradicted by the facts. For example
. In the indictment the judges wrote again: "Only the perfect knowledge of the area, the suspect did the pastor, could facilitate the concealment of the bodies making futile searches made so far in an inaccessible place such as the Murgia full of ravines and pits.
The Well of death was not that far, just five hundred meters from the Four Square Fontane, the center of Gravina in Puglia, the last place - allegedly - had seen Francesco and Salvatore. It was controlled that well but casually, someone had ventured on the precipice of the "mouth" on the balcony of the building abandoned , he glanced down and then he was gone. She had not seen anything. It was a sloppy control, and how you do a thorough check into a well when searching for corpses two children? With a torch? With the fire department? Coming down with ropes in the basement?
What we know for sure is that the "relief" to have gone there, have left an arrow of red paint and they are gone. Francesco and Salvatore were not found them. The relief? What relief? "The research has taken only the day after the disappearance of children," says the lawyer Aliani.
In truth the police claim is a bit 'different. At 23.50 on 5 June 2006, Filippo Pappalardi and his companion Rose Collection came to the police station. They speak with a police officer, say that Francesco and Salvatore have fallen away "and not to lodge a formal complaint of disappearance. "A few hours later," exactly 1, 40 am on 6 June, Pappalardi is then again at the police station without entering it, buzz, informed that it had received more news of her children. "
At 7 am the father is contacted by telephone by the police commissioner of Gravina, ask him if he found Francis and Savior, he says no. Invited to return to the police station, says he can not, is working. It is then that, Rightly or wrongly, was born on his father the prime suspect "murderess".
The rest of the survey is almost two years in pursuit of a clue. The track "Romania", the seven satanic pedophiles. And items picked up by phones or bugs. That of his father most. A morning with his brother Joseph, are in the country to feed the dogs. Philip says to the brother: "This was a Saturday or Sunday that I do not come here, were also dying dogs here." It is a typical dialect but those are words that nail, that "pure" leads Filippo Pappalardi in jail. Although the bulldozers dig and dig in that soil but can not find anything.
Another phone call intercepted, another clue against the father: "Never happened to the deaths of two brothers, eh." Filippo Pappalardi "was assumed" that his children were not there anymore. So he knew, he knew him only because he had killed them. The profile of the suspect fits the suspects: a bully and abusive. Even his miserable life was the best option for a murderess.
Her tragic family history, his social background, his wild ways, his arrogance towards the judges who had interrogated twice. The identikit of a perfect murder. A guilty "at all costs." Justice, you know, is the same for everyone.
(February 28, 2008)
