The Mysterious Case of Liliana Resinovich: A Two-Year Enigma

The case of Liliana Resinovich is a mystery that has lasted for more than two years. She disappeared on December 14, 2021, and was found dead on the following January 5. The initial idea of suicide eventually gave way to new hypotheses, leading to the exhumation of the body by the Prosecutor's Office. The exhumation was reported as "appropriate" by the forensic pathologist Cristina Cattaneo, whom the Prosecutor's Office had tasked with drafting a forensic report to clarify the cause of the woman's death, who was 63 years old.

The Investigation

After initial findings, the Trieste Prosecutor's Office had requested the closure of the investigation, hypothesizing that the woman had taken her own life. However, that theory never convinced Liliana's brother, Sergio Resinovich, who opposed the Prosecutor's decision. The judge for preliminary investigations agreed with him, ordering further investigations.

All Doubts to Be Cleared

The main doubts to be clarified: Liliana's head was inserted into two plastic bags - those used for food storage - which had been closed around her neck, while her body had in turn been placed into two large black trash bags. Then there are the temporal gaps and the brother's statements: "I had met her a few days before the disappearance, she was serene, happy".

The Story

But what had happened? Liliana's body was found on January 5, 2022, in a grove in Trieste, inside the former psychiatric hospital San Giovanni. No drugs or poisonous substances were found near the corpse, nor were there any injuries on the body: the only possibility seems to be that death was caused by suffocation. After the woman's disappearance from her home in Via Verrocchio, in Trieste, the Prosecutor's Office conducted long investigations without charging anyone. The deceased's husband, Sebastiano Visintin, and her friend, Claudio Sterpin, with whom the woman had a relationship and who was the first to file a report at the Police Station, as Liliana did not show up for a meeting, were interviewed several times as people informed on the facts. Last February, the request for closure. On June 3, the GIP Luigi Dainotti orders to investigate for voluntary homicide and indicates 25 points to be deepened: from the cause of death to the date of death. The medical examiner who performed the first autopsy concluded that death might have occurred shortly before the body was found. To be clarified, then, is what Liliana did for two weeks.