The family members of Vera Slepoj, the psychologist found dead on the morning of June 21st in her home in the center of the City of the Saint, do not believe that their relative could have had a fatal illness and have presented a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to ascertain the ” real causes of death”. The Paduan judicial offices have thus opened an investigation file with the hypothesis of manslaughter, currently without any suspect. This allowed the deputy prosecutor Francesco Lazzeri to arrange the autopsy which will be carried out this morning.
Many of the psychologist’s acquaintances had wondered why, after so many days, the date of the funeral had not yet been set, also given the silence of the family. Now the mystery has been clarified. In the complaint presented to the Prosecutor’s Office, the family members state that they are certain that in the days before her death Vera was in excellent health. “She said it herself when answering our questions: I feel good, I’m at my full strength.”
Perhaps tired from a lot of work, but absolutely capable of satisfying the requests of new patients. The question the family is asking is whether she was treated badly for a possible past pathology. In the last few months she would have had some temporary health problems, so much so that the people close to her say they have never heard her talk about illnesses or diagnostic tests to be performed. The family will return to talk after the autopsy results.
Slepoj had been found lifeless on the sofa at home by her housekeeper. She lived alone in the beautiful house in the center where her trusty dog Bibi kept her company. The first responders had attributed her death to an illness and had been unable to do anything, but her relatives never believed this hypothesis. Hence the complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office presented already on June 22nd; now the decision of the magistrate who has decided to see clearly. The autopsy which will be held this morning at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Padua should help to fully define the reasons for the professional’s disappearance. You will also be indispensable for clearance at her funeral. Vera Slepoj was born in Portogruaro (Venice); she had turned 70 on May 3. She graduated in Psychology in Padua in 1977 and since then she had distinguished herself for her studies centered above all on the emotional dimension, starting from the first successful volume, “Understanding feelings”.
Active in newspapers and on television networks, busy in her studio in Padua and often traveling throughout Italy, in addition to the positions in her category she had been councilor for culture and museums of the Province of Padua, she had run in the 1999 European Championships on the lists of AN and in the Senate with the UDC; on 3 April you were co-opted by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano into the Superior Council of Cinema and Audiovisual.
