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Macchi murder, a former high school friend arrested after almost thirty years of killing the student
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27 February 2016 The deputy pg of Milan Carmen Manfredda asked for the exhumation of the body of Lidia Macchi, the student from Varese killed in January 1987 with 29 stab wounds.
Traces of DNA are sought.
The intention of the investigators - we learn from legal sources - is to conduct analyzes on the body, buried for 29 years in the Casbeno cemetery in Varese, to find the possible presence of organic substances or other traces that could be attributable to Stefano Binda, the victim's former high school friend arrested on January 15 on charges of raping and killing the girl.
On the request for exhumation, with the formula of the probative incident to 'crystallize' any evidence, the investigating judge of Varese will speak.
In recent months, the girl's family members had also asked for the exhumation of the remains, assisted by the lawyer Daniele Pizzi, with the aim of "leaving no stone unturned" to clarify the death of the student.
In the meantime, in the Mantegazza park in Varese (the seizure of the area was extended yesterday), the search for a possible murder weapon: a knife that, according to investigative hypotheses, Binda could have hidden in the green area in the days following the murder.
On Monday, the deputy pg Manfredda, who coordinates the investigations of the Varese mobile squad, will appoint a forensic anthropologist as part of a biased consultation.
The expert will have the task of examining six knives and a sickle found in recent days in the park on the outskirts of Varese, to ascertain the presence or absence of fingerprints and DNA on the findings attributable to the victim or the alleged killer.