Modena. Two disappearances and a mystery that returns after 9 years: that of Paola Landini, the 44-year-old who disappeared in the province of Modena and was never found again.
The search for a 21-year-old who disappeared from Sassuolo last December, which has been ongoing for days in the Modena mountains, led to the discovery of the human remains that almost certainly belong to the woman who disappeared into thin air.
In the middle of the gullies, specialists from the Alpine and Speleological Rescue team yesterday found bones, probably those of a woman, and everything suggests that they are those of the 44-year-old, resident in nearby Fiorano (a DNA test will clarify this): she disappeared without a trace on May 15, 2012, when her car was found in the nearby shooting range, which she used to frequent, locked and with personal effects inside, including two cell phones, one unknown to the woman's family.
Law enforcement and mountain rescue yesterday were busy looking for elements that could be useful to the ongoing investigation into 21-year-old Alessandro Venturelli, from Sassuolo who disappeared on December 5 after running away from home. Possible, completely unexpected scenarios opened up after the discovery that led to an immediate report to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the subsequent dispatch of a coroner to the site. DNA evidence will obviously be needed to clarify with certainty whether those bones actually belong to the woman. The investigators are extremely cautious, but it is above all the location that makes one think of a possible connection with the Modena 'cold case' which at the time of the facts was also covered by the television program Chi l'ha visto.
Immediately after Landini's disappearance, in fact, the searches were concentrated precisely on the areas near the shooting range, for the simple fact that the 44-year-old would have been there before, in fact, disappearing into thin air. Waiting for the outcome of the investigations leads us, for the moment, not to exclude any possible consequences. In the event that those remains were actually to be those of Paola Landini, the investigators and the Modena Prosecutor's Office they would find themselves having to clarify the causes of death: a fall, an extreme gesture, a homicide.
But there are those who think it was a murder: Ezio Denti, a private investigator who in 2012 was hired by Paola Landini's family to try to explain the sudden disappearance of the forty-four-year-old. After the discovery of the remains yesterday, Denti has no doubts about it and recalled "We actually gave the order to search around the shooting range. I have always been convinced that she was killed. Just ask yourself one question. Why run away with two guns? Now that her remains have been found, how come the weapons aren't found too?". On the day of her disappearance, Paola Landini allegedly went to the shooting range with two guns, taken from the home she shared with her partner, who was the director of that shooting range; weapons that have never been found, at least until now.
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Article published on May 6, 2021 - 19:38 pm
