" We have reasons to be moderately optimistic that we will soon reach a solution to the case, but at this time, please, let us work in peace."
This was stated by Maria Cristina Rota, acting prosecutor in Bergamo, a month after the murder of Sharon Verzeni, who was stabbed to death on the night between July 29 and 30 in Terno d'Isola around 1 a.m. while she was walking around town. The magistrate, speaking to Corriere della Sera and L'Eco di Bergamo, explains that "we are moving on all fronts", a sign that there is not a single lead. "The partner - she states - was heard as a person informed of the facts and he is so today. The numerous summonses were dictated by the need to participate in activities that required access to his home. At present there are no elements that could change his situation". The magistrate also sends a message to the residents of Terno d'Isola: "The population must not be so alarmed as to change their lifestyle. The territory is sufficiently controlled by the police force".
Meanwhile, the Verzeni family does not give up and, through its lawyer Luigi Scudieri, assures that "Sharon's vile murderer must know that no obstacle will ever stop his identification ". They thank "the citizens, the mayor of Terno d'Isola and the volunteers of Mu.Re. for the collaboration provided in these hours aimed at allowing investigators to carry out appropriate investigations at the crime scene", the relatives add hopefully even if the two days of searching for the murder weapon, a knife of no small size, do not seem to have yielded the desired results.
"It seems a little late now. Should it have been done before? In my opinion, yes. It seems that they probably had more urgent things to check before, but it's not my job, I can't judge," commented Sergio Ruocco regarding the searches that began yesterday and that today involved the area closest to via Merelli, where Sharon lived with him. Since the night of the crime, between July 29 and 30, Ruocco has been a guest of the parents of the murdered woman, since their house is under seizure. "A month has passed and I'm having a hard time, as usual, unfortunately," he said after returning to his in-laws' house after work: "Going back to work in this situation is not the best, I obviously felt the affection of the colleagues who are close to me."
In Terno, meanwhile, the manholes of numerous streets were searched and the local police closed them for the necessary time, while the carabinieri and the experts of Mu.Re. the Museo recuperanti 1915-1918 located in Toscolano Maderno, specialized in the recovery of war devices with metal detectors, walked through them without even neglecting the gas supply cabins. The turning point, however, which would already be approaching with the discovery of the murder weapon does not seem imminent.
In parallel, the military is investigating Sharon's circle of acquaintances, but also the hypothesis of a man the victim did not know, as Ruocco has also stated several times . In this sense, there is at least one testimony evaluated by the investigators from a pizza takeaway in Terno who says that a regular visitor to the main square with others who "made a racket by breaking bottles" and other things "hasn't been seen for a month", essentially since Sharon was killed. "He made a racket" in the square even late at night and with his friends "they always argued and broke bottles", he told reporters after having testified in recent days to the Carabinieri.
The missing man, who he said was North African, "first lived in Terno, then I saw him walking to Medolago". He saw the others in the group in town, but not him and the pizza chef would be able to recognize him but doesn't know his name. The "disappeared", however, would not be the only one and it is not certain that he has something to do with the crime, since after the murder, pushers or in any case people who have problems with the law seem to have disappeared from the square also due to the massive presence of law enforcement forces involved in the investigation. That of the thug who perhaps made advances to Sharon, shortly before 1 am and ended the life of the woman who was walking because she had been advised to lose weight, is one of the leads that remains present to investigators and investigators in Bergamo, just as the search continues for the man on the bicycle caught on camera while he was riding the wrong way along via Castegnate during the minutes of the crime. Those investigating have had a name to work on for days, but the man has not yet shown up or would have reasons not to be found, even if it has been specified that he is not the killer but could have seen something.
(Online Union)