"Le Iene" (The Hyenas) is also investigating the death of Manuela Murgia. The Italia 1 television program revived the case of the 16-year-old girl found dead at the bottom of the Tuvixeddu canyon in the winter of 1995 with a report by Alessandro Sortino.

From the family's testimonies to the contradictions in the accounts of February 1995, when the young woman ran out of the house after a phone call and was found dead in the canyon the next day. For years, there was talk of suicide, a theory the family (siblings Anna, Elisabetta, and Gioele) never believed.

Sortino's report provides an in-depth look at the expert report by coroner Roberto Demontis, which motivated the reopening of the case : according to his reconstruction, after intercourse that left the girl with visible abrasions, Manuela fled and was then run over by her killer (or killers), likely already in agony, and then carried into the canyon. These hypotheses are supported by evidence from the original autopsy.

"This is a story in which much remains to be explained. After 30 years, the mystery of Manuela Murgia's death may be solved," says Sortino. "The key lies in the girl's clothes, which still contain traces of DNA, traces that speak for themselves," he emphasizes, "and among these could be that of her killer."

Then, the interview before the Cagliari court with the young woman's ex-boyfriend, Enrico Astero, 54, now under investigation for her death. The man, who at the time told investigators "I haven't seen her in ten days," had already given his initial comments to L'Unione Sarda the day after being placed under investigation, saying he was "shocked" by "a nightmare" he had suddenly fallen back into after 30 years. "Until proven otherwise, this man, who is fully cooperating, is innocent," Sortino clarified.

(Unioneonline)

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