Post by hi224 on Jan 8, 2020 23:34:54 GMT
*** obvious disclaimer, italian Is my native language, so forgive any mistake
The murder of Elisa Claps is a crime story in which an Italian student born in Potenza on January 21, 1977 was killed at sixteen and kept hidden for years.
Disappeared in her hometown on 12 September 1993, her traces are lost for over sixteen years until the girl's body was found in the attic of the church of the Holy Trinity of Potenza on 17 March 2010. Subsequent investigations show that the death of the young woman occurred on the same day of her disappearance by the work of her friend Danilo Restivo who, in the period in which the fate of Elisa Claps is still unknown, will also be found guilty the killing, carried out in 2002 in British territory, of a neighbor named Heather Barnett.
Elisa Claps, sixteen at the time of her death in 1993, was a third year student in the classical high school of Potenza. On the morning of September,1993, Elisa left the house to go to a religious service in the nearby church together with a friend, promising her older brother, Gildo, to return by 1 pm to join the family in the country house of the Claps, in Tito, and having lunch together; instead of her every trace will be lost.
According to the testimonies, the young woman had actually agreed with the friend in question to go to the church of the Holy Trinity, located in the center of Potenza, to meet a friend who had to give her a gift to celebrate the promotion to the repair exams. It was later discovered that the person met by Elisa is Danilo Restivo, who will also be the last to have seen the girl: the young man is suspected by investigators of having an important role in the disappearance of the girl for the inability to rebuild her transfers after the meeting.
In fact, a few hours after Elisa's disappearance, Restivo shows up with bloody clothes at the emergency room of the city hospital to get a hand cut medicated, telling the doctors that he injured himself after a fall in the construction site of the escalators nearby to the church of the Holy Trinity.
The injury, however, appears to have been caused by a blade. The clothes that the young man wore that Sunday appear conspicuously bloody, but are not immediately seized, and the same becomes unavailable for the next two days with the excuse of having to take a university exam in Naples.
Restivo claims to have talked to Elisa for a few minutes, asking her for advice on how to behave with a mutual friend with whom he had fallen in love, and that, moreover, Elisa would have confided to him that she was afraid because of an individual who had bothered her while he was entering the church; after which, according to Restivo's account, the girl would have gone away while he had stopped to pray.
The young Restivo is known for his habit of harassing the girls with whom he falls in love and to whom he often makes silent calls followed by the soundtrack of the movie Deep Red or by the well-known melody For Elisa by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Another decidedly unusual habit of Restivo is to secretly cut strands of hair for young women with a pair of scissors that he always carries with him. Some of Elisa's friends declared that Restivo had attempted to woo her unsuccessfully and that it was the young man's habit to try to get dating from the girls he was attracted to with the excuse of offering small gifts, then becoming aggressive and violent when the girls he cared about refused the its approaches.
When she learns that the young woman had had an appointment with Restivo, Elisa's mother focuses her attention on the boy, declaring that, in all likelihood, Danilo killed Elisa and hid her body. The woman therefore repeatedly asks the investigators to investigate thoroughly on Restivo, but without success, until, almost seventeen years later, the remains of the young woman are found in the attic of the church where Elisa had met with Restivo and inside which Elisa's family members had asked for a thorough search from the beginning.
Investigations
Of the case, even in the years when the investigators did not make progress. Felicia Genovese, PM of Potenza and owner of the investigation, was initially investigated by the Prosecutor of Salerno - competent for the magistrates of Potenza - as suspected of having covered up the case , being subsequently acquitted;
Remains found
On March 17, 2010, the remains of Elisa Claps are found hidden at the bottom of the attic of the Potentina church of the Holy Trinity (the same one where Elisa had gone on the day of the disappearance), it would seem discovered by chance by some workers during renovation works for infiltrations of water; in addition to human remains, a watch, glasses, earrings, sandals and what remains of the young woman's clothes are also found. The bra appears cut and the jeans are open, suggesting that the girl suffered sexual assault before being killed.
The finding will be judged by the family to be staged, believing that it had happened previously and that it had been kept hidden by the parish priest of the church, Don Mimì Sabia: Elisa's mother said she suspected the religious, then died, because she did not he would never have allowed "to see the interior of the church" , and the brother of the disappearance asked the bishop of Potenza to "finally tell the truth about what happened"
New findings
25 October 2010 some additional findings are disclosed: the clasts (pebbles) coming from the attic and present in the furrow of Elisa Claps's heel show that Elisa arrived alive, walking, in the attic and was then killed there;
Elisa would have been hit with a medium-sized scissor and a sharp blade; the attacker continued to cut, probably turning his body over, for a relatively long time after the attack, with Elisa dying or already dead; the red button found near his body may have probably belonged to a cardinal's habit; the holes present in the planking placed under the tiles, in correspondence with the place where the corpse was found, are made with a small, split screwdriver, and make one think of operations carried out without method to hastily create a slit in the attic in order to disperse the miasmas.
The filing of the dactyloscopic expertise carried out on the twelve finds taken in the attic of the church of the Holy Trinity is expected in days to compare the fingerprints found on the objects found with those of Danilo Restivo.
Solved (?)
On June 30, 2011 Danilo Restivo is sentenced to life imprisonment by the Crown Court of Winchester for the murder of Heather Barnett, who was killed on November 12, 2002 in Charminster, a Dorset village near Bournemouth. In pronouncing the sentence - which states that Restivo also killed Elisa Claps beyond doubt - Judge Michael Bowes also said to Restivo:
"You will never go out of prison [...]. You are a repeat offender. He is a cold, depraved and calculating killer who killed Heather as he did Elisa [Claps, ed] [...] He arranged Heather's body as he did Elisa's. He cut her hair, just like Elisa [...]. She deserves to be in prison for life "
While Restivo's guilt in certain, how big was the church cover up? How many people saw and didn't tell? Will we ever now?
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Restivo
The murder of Elisa Claps is a crime story in which an Italian student born in Potenza on January 21, 1977 was killed at sixteen and kept hidden for years.
Disappeared in her hometown on 12 September 1993, her traces are lost for over sixteen years until the girl's body was found in the attic of the church of the Holy Trinity of Potenza on 17 March 2010. Subsequent investigations show that the death of the young woman occurred on the same day of her disappearance by the work of her friend Danilo Restivo who, in the period in which the fate of Elisa Claps is still unknown, will also be found guilty the killing, carried out in 2002 in British territory, of a neighbor named Heather Barnett.
Elisa Claps, sixteen at the time of her death in 1993, was a third year student in the classical high school of Potenza. On the morning of September,1993, Elisa left the house to go to a religious service in the nearby church together with a friend, promising her older brother, Gildo, to return by 1 pm to join the family in the country house of the Claps, in Tito, and having lunch together; instead of her every trace will be lost.
According to the testimonies, the young woman had actually agreed with the friend in question to go to the church of the Holy Trinity, located in the center of Potenza, to meet a friend who had to give her a gift to celebrate the promotion to the repair exams. It was later discovered that the person met by Elisa is Danilo Restivo, who will also be the last to have seen the girl: the young man is suspected by investigators of having an important role in the disappearance of the girl for the inability to rebuild her transfers after the meeting.
In fact, a few hours after Elisa's disappearance, Restivo shows up with bloody clothes at the emergency room of the city hospital to get a hand cut medicated, telling the doctors that he injured himself after a fall in the construction site of the escalators nearby to the church of the Holy Trinity.
The injury, however, appears to have been caused by a blade. The clothes that the young man wore that Sunday appear conspicuously bloody, but are not immediately seized, and the same becomes unavailable for the next two days with the excuse of having to take a university exam in Naples.
Restivo claims to have talked to Elisa for a few minutes, asking her for advice on how to behave with a mutual friend with whom he had fallen in love, and that, moreover, Elisa would have confided to him that she was afraid because of an individual who had bothered her while he was entering the church; after which, according to Restivo's account, the girl would have gone away while he had stopped to pray.
The young Restivo is known for his habit of harassing the girls with whom he falls in love and to whom he often makes silent calls followed by the soundtrack of the movie Deep Red or by the well-known melody For Elisa by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Another decidedly unusual habit of Restivo is to secretly cut strands of hair for young women with a pair of scissors that he always carries with him. Some of Elisa's friends declared that Restivo had attempted to woo her unsuccessfully and that it was the young man's habit to try to get dating from the girls he was attracted to with the excuse of offering small gifts, then becoming aggressive and violent when the girls he cared about refused the its approaches.
When she learns that the young woman had had an appointment with Restivo, Elisa's mother focuses her attention on the boy, declaring that, in all likelihood, Danilo killed Elisa and hid her body. The woman therefore repeatedly asks the investigators to investigate thoroughly on Restivo, but without success, until, almost seventeen years later, the remains of the young woman are found in the attic of the church where Elisa had met with Restivo and inside which Elisa's family members had asked for a thorough search from the beginning.
Investigations
Of the case, even in the years when the investigators did not make progress. Felicia Genovese, PM of Potenza and owner of the investigation, was initially investigated by the Prosecutor of Salerno - competent for the magistrates of Potenza - as suspected of having covered up the case , being subsequently acquitted;
Remains found
On March 17, 2010, the remains of Elisa Claps are found hidden at the bottom of the attic of the Potentina church of the Holy Trinity (the same one where Elisa had gone on the day of the disappearance), it would seem discovered by chance by some workers during renovation works for infiltrations of water; in addition to human remains, a watch, glasses, earrings, sandals and what remains of the young woman's clothes are also found. The bra appears cut and the jeans are open, suggesting that the girl suffered sexual assault before being killed.
The finding will be judged by the family to be staged, believing that it had happened previously and that it had been kept hidden by the parish priest of the church, Don Mimì Sabia: Elisa's mother said she suspected the religious, then died, because she did not he would never have allowed "to see the interior of the church" , and the brother of the disappearance asked the bishop of Potenza to "finally tell the truth about what happened"
New findings
25 October 2010 some additional findings are disclosed: the clasts (pebbles) coming from the attic and present in the furrow of Elisa Claps's heel show that Elisa arrived alive, walking, in the attic and was then killed there;
Elisa would have been hit with a medium-sized scissor and a sharp blade; the attacker continued to cut, probably turning his body over, for a relatively long time after the attack, with Elisa dying or already dead; the red button found near his body may have probably belonged to a cardinal's habit; the holes present in the planking placed under the tiles, in correspondence with the place where the corpse was found, are made with a small, split screwdriver, and make one think of operations carried out without method to hastily create a slit in the attic in order to disperse the miasmas.
The filing of the dactyloscopic expertise carried out on the twelve finds taken in the attic of the church of the Holy Trinity is expected in days to compare the fingerprints found on the objects found with those of Danilo Restivo.
Solved (?)
On June 30, 2011 Danilo Restivo is sentenced to life imprisonment by the Crown Court of Winchester for the murder of Heather Barnett, who was killed on November 12, 2002 in Charminster, a Dorset village near Bournemouth. In pronouncing the sentence - which states that Restivo also killed Elisa Claps beyond doubt - Judge Michael Bowes also said to Restivo:
"You will never go out of prison [...]. You are a repeat offender. He is a cold, depraved and calculating killer who killed Heather as he did Elisa [Claps, ed] [...] He arranged Heather's body as he did Elisa's. He cut her hair, just like Elisa [...]. She deserves to be in prison for life "
While Restivo's guilt in certain, how big was the church cover up? How many people saw and didn't tell? Will we ever now?
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Restivo