Reggio Emilia, 25 May 2024 – He had disappeared 10 years agothen on July 11, 2023 the turning point of this cold case in the Reggio area: the man killed and buried in a bag under 50 centimeters of earth, on the back of an old farmhouse in the countryside of Castelnovo Sotto, would be the Sicilian entrepreneur Gaetano Impellizzeri.
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Well today we have the certainty of the investigators’ hypothesis: the DNA test on the remains of the body found almost a year ago confirms that it was actually the body of Gaetano Impellizzeri.
The place where the body was found in Castelnovo Sotto; in the box, Gaetano Impellizzeri
Impellizzeri was a sales agent of Alcamo (Trapani), operating in the automotive and household appliances sectors, who passed away on 10 February 2014, when he was forty-seven years old.
The result of the DNA test was revealed by the lawyer Giuseppe Accardo, of the Marsala Bar, who released a note signed together with Impellizzeri’s daughters, Alessia and Eleonora Chiara, who provided the biological material to carry out the DNA comparison. The test was entrusted to the RIS of the Parma Carabinieri.
“The tests have confirmed that it is Gaetano Impellizzeri”, write the lawyer and his daughters in the note. The lawyer Accardo adds that he “reserves the right to formulate any other statement upon having read the investigation file”.
Impellizzeri had disappeared shortly after being landed at Orio airport at the Serio in Bergamo. Over time, the story was followed by the Rai television program ‘Who has seen it?’. The investigative unit of the Carabinieri of Reggio Emilia is investigating the case with the coordination of the local Prosecutor’s Office. Three people are under investigation for homocideallegedly committed with a firearm, with a subsequent concealment of the dead body.
The testimony of a justice collaborator conducted the research in the garden of a farmhouse, owned by people unrelated to the investigation.
The morning of last July 11, 2023, using an ultrasound scanner, an inspection of the garden was carried out which revealed the body at a depth of about half a metre. The body was wrapped in a sack.
Among the various hypotheses taken into consideration, there was also the one that Impellizzeri could be found in financial difficulties and that he was looking to start a new car trading business.
