01x02 - Episode 2

[bunniefuu]

[ominous music playing]

[journalist 1 in Italian] The body
of a young girl was found on the banks

of the river Serio.

[journalist 2] A few kilometers
from Brembate di Sopra.

[journalist 1] It seems the body
was submerged in water,

but the autopsy will have to confirm.

CLAUDIO SALVAGNI
MASSIMO BOSSETTI'S LAWYER

[in English] I saw the photos,
unfortunately.

I was stunned, because she was found
with her underwear down,

her jeans removed and somehow folded,

placed a few meters away from her body.

"WHO HAS SEEN?"

I remember that we were able to break
the story very quickly on Bergamo News.

"A body was found near a stream,
and was thought to be Yara's."

[journalist in Italian] Forensic units
from Rome are expected.

They will analyze all evidence found here.

[Oliva in English]
As soon as investigators arrived,

they realized that body was not Yara's,
but that of Sarbjit Kaur…

[ominous music continues]

…an Indian girl who was found dead
in late December of 2010.

[journalist in Italian] The autopsy on
Sarbjit's body reveals a wound to the head

and two cuts on her wrists.

The wounds did not cause the girl's death,
but seem to act as evidence.

[in English] Sadly, the investigation
was dismissed as suicide.

Simply because poor Sarbjit
is an Indian girl,

therefore, it was seen
as a second-class m*rder.

[ominous music fades]

[emotional music playing]

THE YARA GAMBIRASIO CASE:
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT

[music fades]

DECEMBER 11TH, 2010


AFTER YARA'S DISAPPEARANCE

[sorrowful music playing]

We are all working hard in the hopes

of bringing this young girl back
to her family, alive.

MASSIMO MERONI
CHIEF PROSECUTOR

Fortunately, there are currently
no clear indications to the contrary.

[Tortorella] I had serious doubts.

ROBERTO TORTORELLA
CHIEF OF CARABINIERI

Certain claims can be misconstrued,
not only by the family, but the press,

so we had to be as restrained as possible.

Have you lost some hope
of finding her alive?

We still strongly hope
that we'll bring her home.

It could've been misinterpreted.
Bring her home, how?

However, I said,
"Bring her home." Full stop.

FULVIO GAMBIRASIO - YARA'S FATHER
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Fulvio] With each passing day,
this light of hope is getting more faint.

I trust in my daughter.

She's strong,
with an incredible constitution.

But at the end of the day,
she's a 13-year-old girl.

[sorrowful music continues]

You hope, because you have to.

She didn't leave voluntarily…

PAOLA ABRATE
JOURNALIST - BERGAMO TV

…but at the same time, what happened?

It just didn't make sense.

It was hard to admit.
That was the problem.

Really, really hard.

[mysterious music playing]

[journalist in Italian] No news
on the disappearance of Yara,

who is also sought abroad by Interpol.

Carabinieri and police are not giving up
on the most solid lead,

the kidnapping.

Away from the town, the search continues.

In Bedulina, in the Imagna Valley,


in a cave on private land, Carabinieri,
firefighters and speleologists

are working with infrared
and underwater camera.

[Fulvio in English] They say people
in Bergamo are cold,

but they are proving
to be incredibly supportive.

I'm shocked with the amount of love
we're being shown.

[journalist] How long
will you keep searching?

Until we bring the little girl home.

[Attanà] They didn't know
which way to turn.

There was an army of volunteers
on the ground.

VITTORIO ATTANÀ
JOURNALIST

Thousands of people were engaged
in searching through fields,

wells, old farmhouses,
looking for any trace.

[journalist] It's sad to say that,
almost two months since it all began,

there are no clues,

there is no certainty,

except that the girl
was taken by someone she knew

-and who took advantage of her trust.
-That's right.

Since their line of investigation
is heavily criticized…

ENRICO FEDOCCI
JOURNALIST

…the pressure on the investigators
is extreme,

because it looks like they have no clue
what they're doing.

[Fulvio] Unfortunately,
they are fumbling in the dark,

because they have no clues,
no one has seen or heard anything.

They're giving all their time,
soul, money and heart.

And from that point of view,
they are very kind.

[Tortorella] It's a complex case,
heartbreaking.

For the first month,
my hope was to bring her home.

Then, I became more and more convinced
that the worst had happened.

I wouldn't be able to…

see her and wouldn't give her parents
the good news,

"Your daughter's fine
and we're bringing her home."

Which is the greatest satisfaction
a police officer can aspire to.

[sorrowful music playing]

MAURA PANARESE - YARA'S MOTHER
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Maura] Sweetheart, in a few minutes,
it'll be exactly 84 days

since I last said goodbye to you,
and I haven't seen you since.

Eighty-four days of agony,
anguish and pain.

I'll keep telling you,
wherever you are, my love,

you have to be strong.

Because you will come home.

I don't know when,

but I know you're coming home.

FEBRUARY 20TH, 2011

[tense music playing]

DECEMBER 4TH, 2014

[car engine starts]



[ominous music playing]

[in Italian] Prosecutors are convinced
that Mr. Bossetti's van

drove by the gym all these times.

[Fedocci in English] At some point,
a video was released

jointly by the police
and the forensic unit,

showing Bossetti's van passing 16 times.

It was shown on every TV channel.

The images are absolutely disturbing.

With the footage from each camera,
you can see the route the van took

as it went by every few minutes.

It was clearly being driven
in circles around the gym.

[mysterious music playing]

I was coming from an interrogation
where I said nothing.

I exercised my right to remain silent.

They kept me in the room
with them for an hour,

showing me the van passing by 13 times,

and at what times it had passed.

I was shocked.

[Marita] If you have something
to say, tell me now.

[Massimo] How could I remember that stuff?

[Marita] If you really did something,
tell me now. You have to tell me.

It's true, I did press him
in the following visits.

They said I was worse than the prosecutor.

It seems natural to me.

I couldn't pretend nothing had happened
and go visit him and not ask him.

No.

-How would I know?
-Don't say that.

Don't tell me you don't know
if your van went by five or six times!

I insisted.

I tried all I could to get him
to come clean, to tell me the truth.

[ominous music playing]

MASSIMO BOSSETTI
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Massimo] If they find
anything in our cars,

just tell them
that I only had our kids in them.

[music builds to a cl*max]

[music fades]

DECEMBER 4TH, 2014

[tense music playing]

FEBRUARY 26TH, 2011


AFTER YARA'S DISAPPEARANCE

[telephone ringing]

[woman] Hello?

[Maura] Can you come here
and get the kids?

-[woman] What's going on?
-[Maura] Come, please.

-[woman] I'm coming.
-[Maura] Okay.

[call disconnects]

[moody music playing]

[telephone ringing]

[ringing continues]

-[Yara's grandfather] Yes? Hi. Any news?
-[Maura] Hi, Dad.

[Maura] Listen, Francesca is here
with the police.

[Yara's grandfather] Okay…

[Maura] It seems that they found
a small body, about an hour ago.

It's unrecognizable.

They have cordoned off the area
and there are forensic units,

so no one can access the area right now.

YARA'S GRANDFATHER
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

-[Yara's grandfather] Took them what--
-[Maura] Dad, leave it.

-[Yara's grandfather] Three months?
-[Maura] Stop.

[Yara's grandfather] Just to get this far?
Uh, we'll talk later, darling.

[Maura] Yeah.

[Yara's grandfather] Take care, okay? Bye.

[hangs up phone]

[moody music continues]

When the news came out
that a body had been found,

everyone thought
it was Yara Gambirasio's body.

Everyone. I don't believe
anyone thought otherwise.

[Di Landro] The deployment
of police units was enormous,

so, from the very start, journalists
were prevented from reaching the field.

They closed off the area
almost half a kilometer around it.

[Abrate] There was a large crowd,

because the investigators
were arriving one at a time.

And they were also waiting
for the pathologist to arrive.

[woman] We couldn't walk.
We couldn't get out of the car.

that was how big the crowd was.

CRISTINA CATTANEO
FORENSIC DOCTOR

That was… It was completely unexpected.

It had never happened to me in 30 years.

[moody music fades]

[mysterious music playing]

I remember there was an area all lit up.

It was very… quiet.

There was an aura of enormous respect.

This sort of protective circle
was formed around the victim.

And we started doing what we normally do,

the examination of the body,
and the examination of the environment,

which was particularly important
in this case.

[man 1] The shirt underneath is blue

with the Italian football badge
on the right side.

-[man 2] Does it say FGC on it?
-[man 3] FGI.

[Maura] She's unrecognizable,
but judging by the shoes,

by what she's wearing,
by the key ring, it seems to be her.

[sorrowful music playing]

[Cattaneo] Nothing was clear.

From the time of death,
the cause of death,

where she'd been, to what her body
had been in contact with

before she was k*lled.

[man 4] Here's a SIM card.

[Fulvio] We've decided not to go there,

because of the whole situation
and the journalists.

I mean, it would be excruciating for us.

Then, after a few hours
we moved everything to the morgue,

at the Institute of Forensic Medicine.

[Cattaneo] Good evening,
this is Cristina Cattaneo.

They're leaving Bergamo with the body now.

They should be in Milan within an hour.

SCIENTIFIC POLICE

The relatives will identify the body
tomorrow at 11:00. I'll be there as well.

[Fulvio] We'll be there tomorrow morning,

at the Institute
of Forensic Medicine in Milan to…

[Yara's grandfather]
That's where they moved her to?

[Fulvio] They're moving her now.

[Yara's grandfather]
Listen, Fulvio. I have a question.

They were talking about a small body.
Was Yara already…

[Fulvio] Grandpa, we don't know.

We're going there
with the thought that it's not her,

but they think it might be.

[people clapping]

[sorrowful music continues]

[officer in Italian] Go. Move that way.

[sorrowful music fades]

[mysterious music playing]

[journalist] The body was found by a man

who was testing a remote-controlled
model airplane in the countryside,

and who immediately alerted the police.

[Tortorella in English] This gentleman
was flying his model plane in a field.

It jams and falls one meter
from the victim's body.

When I pick up my plane, I turn around
to go back to the clearing, and that's it.

ILARIO SCOTTI
WITNESS

-I see what… what turns out to be…
-[music becomes ominous]

[journalist] What has
stuck with you the most?

Everything.

[journalist] What was it like?

A horror movie.

I don't know
if we just passed over the area.

We must have overlooked it.

I will never know.

The field where she was found
is about ten kilometers away

from the gym in Brembate Sopra.

[Oliva] It's a unique field,
because it's surrounded by businesses,

and a nightclub
called Sabbie Mobili Evolution.

If someone knows that field,

it's either because they work
at one of those businesses,

or because they go to that club.

[ominous music fades]

[moody music playing]

MORGUE

[Fulvio] The clothes
are covering the body,

but they say
it will be very hard to identify.

They're Yara's clothes.

The body doesn't look like Yara.

Maybe it's better this way,

because it doesn't remind us
of her at all, except for the clothing.

[moody music playing]

[in Italian] Any hope of finding
Yara Gambirasio alive has vanished.

[woman in English] We all still had
a bit of hope that we'd find her alive.

A sliver of hope, but it was there.

Of course, now,
this has shattered all hope.

I'm devastated,
because it's like she was my daughter.

The whole town is having a hard time
coming to terms with what happened.

Anger, because she was a little girl.

You want to take justice
into your own hands.

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

[Tortorella] When they called me
and told me they'd found Yara's body,

that's when I sat in a chair,
and I remember thinking,

"I have failed."

[journalist] In the past three months,
you've been searching the entire area.

What do you make of the controversies
over the sudden discovery?

Obviously, given my failure
to solve the case,

I was attacked by the press
for my incompetence.

They really went for my throat.

I'm not authorized to say anything.
Ask the prosecutor, not us.

[Tortorella] They said, "In 24 hours
you'll be off the case."

Maybe they thought
I wasn't up to the task,

or because some political authority
had intervened, I don't know.

It was really tough.

[sighs]

Let's put it this way,
it was hard, emotionally.

[moody music continues]

FEBRUARY 27TH, 2011

[tense music playing]

AUGUST 6TH, 2014
BERGAMO PRISON


AFTER THE ARREST

LETIZIA RUGGERI - PROSECUTOR
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Ruggeri] Mr. Bossetti, when we came
to arrest you on June 16th,

what ran through your mind?

[Massimo] Fear.

-[dramatic action music playing]
-[sirens blaring]

[man in Italian] He's running away!

[Massimo in English]
Fear of being taken where? And why?

-[Ruggeri] What's the worst they'd done?
-[Massimo] They started chasing me!

[man 1 in Italian] Watch out,
he's running away. Come on!

-[in English] Why did he run from police?
-That's not true. Where did he run to?

[man 2] If I see the police come up
behind me while I'm on a work site,

-I'd probably say, "How's it going?"
-But did you see him run?

[man 1 in Italian]
He went that way. Over there!

[Ponzone in English] I told you to stop,
and you ran down to the lower floor.

[Massimo] I didn't know
what was going on, or why.

[Lorusso] Bossetti,
someone who has nothing to fear

doesn't think that the police are there
to do something bad.

[Ponzone in Italian]
Over there! In the back!

[in English] Running
when he saw the police

is the kind of behavior that could've
been triggered by irrational fear,

but you still have to ask yourself, "Why?"

[dramatic music continues]

MICHELE LORUSSO - COL. OF CARABINIERI
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Lorusso] Bossetti, you got scared before
we told you why we were there. You see?

[Massimo] No, I was scared--

If you were afraid
that someone was going to attack you,

it means you knew
why they were coming after you.

-[Ruggeri] Did you know why?
-[Massimo] No.

[Lorusso] Then why were you afraid?

[Ponzone in Italian] Come here.

Come on.

[in English] It's really insufficient
to say that because he tried to escape,

he is therefore guilty.

-[man in Italian] Easy.
-[Ponzone] Move. Move.

[dramatic action music fades]

-[pensive music playing]
-[telephone ringing]

-[Marita in English] Hello?
-[Salvagni] Salvagni speaking.

-[Marita] Yes, hello.
-[Salvagni] I just left the prison.

My God, I was under siege. It's absurd.

-[journalist 1] How is he doing? Wait.
-[journalist 2] How's he holding up.

Easy guys. How did I find him?

I found him as a man who claims
he's innocent, yet is imprisoned.

I remember every moment of that day,

because that interrogation
was fundamental for me.

It was the very first time
I met Massimo Bossetti.

Guys, put yourself in my shoes.

Since I took on the defense,
I was only able to speak to my client

a little bit yesterday,
and more extensively today.

I wanted to understand
who I was dealing with,

especially because this story
had really shocked everyone.

[Marita] How was he?

[Salvagni] He's tired,
exhausted, and obviously scared.

But he's also hopeful, because he feels
and knows that his family's close to him.

-He's confident we're doing good work.
-[Marita] Okay, good.

[Salvagni] A lawyer should not
think with his heart.

He should only use his head
to examine the documents,

and figure out
a defense strategy, if they exist.

But I also try to put my heart
into my profession.

Tell us what impression he's made on you.

Well, I'll just tell you that he
strongly professes his innocence,

and he's convinced me.

What else do you expect me to say?

-[journalist] Looking him in the eyes?
-Excuse me.

[journalist] Are you going
to make special requests?

[contemplative music fades]

[Ruggeri] Mr. Bossetti, do you go to any
commercial establishments in that area?

[Massimo] No. None in Brembate Sopra.

[Ruggeri] You don't go to a beauty center?

-[Massimo] No.
-[Ruggeri] For a tanning bed?

-[Massimo] No, I don't.
-[Ruggeri] You don't?

[Massimo] I've never
used a sunbed there. Ever.

-[Ruggeri] The one near Rampinelli Street?
-[Massimo] Rampinelli Street?

-[Ruggeri] Mmm-hmm.
-[Massimo] No, not at all.

[Salvagni] The prosecutor claimed that
Massimo visited a certain beauty salon

on a regular basis to use their sunbeds,
that he went there frequently.

And that subsequently, he crossed
paths with Yara Gambirasio.

As for the tanning, they used that
to build the case that he was a monster.

[journalist in Italian] Massimo Bossetti
couldn't do without a good suntan.

That's why he used sunbeds every week,

and the beauty center he visited

was a stone's throw
from the Gambirasios' house.

[Massimo in English] I've never gone there
for tanning. Never.

[Ruggeri] So how do you maintain a tan?

[Massimo] At the construction site.
I'm in the sun every day.

[Ruggeri] I'm telling you this because
we're verifying this information

at the moment.

It turns out
you do visit this beauty center.

The owner said you're a regular.

[woman] He used to come here.
He was a client.

He'd come at least once a week.

[man] When you saw the picture on TV…

[woman] I recognized him right away.

[Lorusso] Tanning isn't a crime.

-The issue is understanding why you deny…
-[Massimo] No, what I'm saying…

[Lorusso] …that you visited
a tanning place so frequently--

[Massimo] But I never
told my wife about it.

[mysterious music playing]

I didn't think
it was appropriate to tell her

that I was spending those five
or six euros to get a tan,

given all the financial problems
we've always had.

She would have been mad.

[Salvagni] It was a single-income family,

therefore, Massimo
was the only one working.

So, spending those five
or ten euros on a tan,

seemed like something
he should not confess to.

[Marita] What did you say?

[Massimo] While I was still working
for Oltreoceano,

I went there just a couple of times
to get a tan.

[Marita] Why?

-[Massimo] I wanted a tan.
-[Marita] Why didn't you tell me?

-[Massimo] Sorry if I didn't tell you.
-[Marita] Why?

[Marita] There are witnesses
saying that he used sunbeds.

[Salvagni] Yes, but who cares?
That's bullshit.

It's normal for someone
to get a tan or whatever.

Even if it's true,
what does it prove? Nothing. So…

[Marita] No. It shows that he lies.
That's what they're saying.

[journalist in Italian] Bossetti built
a castle of lies that is collapsing.

It has earned him nicknames among
his colleagues, such as "Bullshitter."

In order to take leave from
his construction site, and work elsewhere,

he even claimed having a brain tumor,
which he admits to.

[Massimo in English]
I made up a terrible lie.

I wanted to make some extra income,

mostly to help my family
and keep us going.

So, I made up the story that I had been
diagnosed with this condition

that I had to visit
the tumor center in Milan.

I swear.

Yes, he might've told some lies.

But he had to, just so he could work.

He worked during the day
for one company, and at night for another,

and he had to find time and ways to do it.

So he did tell some lies.

-[Lorusso] How did you tell her this lie?
-[Massimo] Like that.

-[Lorusso] Calm? Desperate? Crying?
-[Massimo] Not desperately.

Just normally, like that, and…

[Lorusso] Do you deny crying
at the construction site?

-[Lorusso] Do you deny crying at the--
-[Massimo] What? After that, I did cry.

-[Massimo] I pretended to cry.
-[Lorusso] So you can cry on command.

MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
DETENTION CENTER

Anything Mr. Bossetti said
at the so-called questioning

has always been used against him.

He's being held in prison under a
condition of great psychological pressure.

They're pressuring him to confess
something he cannot,

because he didn't do it.

AUGUST 6TH, 2014
BERGAMO PRISON

[tense music playing]

MARCH 1ST, 2011



[moody music playing]

[Maura] Today is a really bad day for me.

I told Fulvio, "I'm starting to get tired
of not having clear answers."

I'm sorry, but I need to know
how my daughter died.

How long after the kidnapping did she die?

Did she die immediately,
after one, two, three hours, or two days?

[Ruggeri] These questions are normal.

[Maura] This whole thing is k*lling me
a second time around.

[Cattaneo] An autopsy
is a very intimate act.

Because you go rummaging
in every nook and cranny.

In the clothes and in the body.

Yes, it's something extremely scientific,

but also something very private,

which bonds you to the victim.

ON PHONE WITH LETIZIA RUGGERI
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Fulvio] We have ups and downs
during the day, as the hours go by.

[Ruggeri] Yes, I realize that.

[Fulvio] More downs than ups,
but we have to--

[Ruggeri] I try not to bother you,
because I know what you're going through.

But, now we've found the body,
and it contains a lot of information.

By working on it,
we can make huge steps forward.

I've got the best people on it.

If there's something to find,
they'll find it.

Please try to be patient and trust me.

-[Fulvio] Yes, I know.
-[Ruggeri] I know how hard this is.

[mysterious music playing]

Since Yara was a victim
who needed to be rectified,

it was necessary to find who had
committed this crime, at all costs.

For the first time in my life, I was told
by a prosecutor, "Do whatever you need to,

recruit all the people you deem necessary
and spend whatever you want."

[journalist] Could it
narrow down the search?

We're working with that goal in mind.

It's the only thing
I can tell you for sure.

There's an army of competent people,
I dare say, the best in the country.

My team is the best,
and they're all committed to this.

I have complete confidence.

[dramatic music playing]

[Cattaneo] A lot of people
were at the autopsy,

many more than usual.

The field experts were there
to recover what was left

of the environment on the body,

in order to reconstruct
precisely the time it happened,

the sequence of events, and so on.

[journalist] This morning,
the pathologist Cristina Cattaneo

has done a scientific inspection
of the field in Chignolo.

-[journalist] Doctor, can you tell us--
-[Cattaneo] No. Absolutely not.

-[journalist] We just wanna know--
-[Cattaneo] I will not! For God's sake!

Ladies and gentlemen, please!
You've been told to stay behind the tape.

[journalist] The staff coordinated
by Dr. Cattaneo scoured the area,

taking soil samples,
blades of grass and pollen,

which will be compared
with those found on Yara's clothes

and under her fingernails.

This way, it will be possible to establish
whether the body of the 13-year-old

was also taken to another field.

[mysterious music playing]

-[Cattaneo] You might be right.
-[man] Yeah.

[Cattaneo] They might have
moved her there later.

It's hard to tell because it's winter.

Some greens are starting to sprout.

We should look for the white shoots.
Let's take a little soil as well.

[Fulvio] Last night,
Maura broke down for a minute.

We still have this terrifying image
about how much Yara might have suffered.

[Ruggeri] Of course.

[Fulvio] And for how long
she might've been there,

alive and conscious.

Everything we've reconstructed leads
us to believe that she died there.

She had grass from that field
in her hands.

[moody music playing]

The theory of sexual as*ault
ending in tragedy

is what immediately takes shape.

Her underwear was found with the sides
cut off, as if by a blade,

and her bra unfastened.

The body presented
a number of stab wounds,

but those were not the causes
linked to her death.

That came with the cold
and the circumstances

of being abandoned there.

[music becomes sorrowful]

Everyone at the autopsy table thought
this was a victim who was left to die.

Could she have been… saved?

If she had been found
and cared for in a timely manner.

[music becomes dramatic]

[Salvagni] Yara's autopsy reveals
a number of disturbing similarities

with Sarbjit Kaur's case,

the Indian girl found dead
on the banks of the Serio river.

[journalist] The autopsy revealed
a deep wound to the head

and two cuts to the wrists,

two injuries
that did not cause the girl's death.

Yara also had a head wound
and two cuts on her wrists.

Is it just a coincidence?

Have Sarbjit's wounds
been compared to Yara's?

[Salvagni] The investigation,
which was also pursued by Dr. Ruggeri,

has been filed as a suicide.

We thought that kind of reasoning
might come out of the prosecutor's office…

PAOLO CAMPORINI
MASSIMO BOSSETTI'S LAWYER

…and that they'd investigate it further,
but no one bothered to do it.

[dramatic music fades]

[journalist in Italian] Tests on Yara's
body carried out by Cristina Cattaneo

could go on for months
and take the whole summer.

[woman in English]
So, you don't know anything yet.

ON THE PHONE WITH AN ACQUAINTANCE

[Fulvio] No.

[woman] Things will only start
to settle down again after the funeral.

[Fulvio] I spoke to them yesterday.
The police came here again.

[woman] They're still working, basically?

[Fulvio] Yes, but I was expecting
it would take ten days, more or less.

-I think it'll take longer.
-[woman] Not enough time.

MORGUE

[journalist] It's been months
since the body was found.

-It's only been two. Two months.
-Two months.

And I've given the experts three,
and I'll probably extend it.

These investigations are very long,
tiring, and really demanding.

So, we'll have to wait longer
for the funeral?

I think so.

UNIVERSITY FORENSIC MEDICINE INSTITUTE

[ominous music playing]

[Cattaneo] For every part of the body
that had some kind of a lesion on it,

we took small samples using swabs.

After taking a look at these samples,

and studying them closely,

the analyst calls me and says,

"Why is there lime?"

That body had been in contact with lime.

Cement.

And in our opinion,
this was a very important element.

By doing the same thing on the clothes,

we found little metal spheres.

The kind that are typically found
on construction sites.

ON PHONE WITH FULVIO GAMBIRASIO
RECORDING FROM INVESTIGATION

[Ruggeri] I'm annoyed
with all the interest in this story,

because it's just morbid curiosity.

Knowing the details
of whether she was r*ped or not,

or how many times she was stabbed,

is not something
that people should be interested in,

only those investigating it.

-[journalist] Are there any suspects?
-No. The perpetrator is still unknown.

MAY 1ST, 2011

[tense music playing]

AUGUST 19TH, 2014
BERGAMO PRISON


AFTER THE ARREST

[mysterious music playing]

[Marita] Listen for a second.
The two small knives--

-What? Three.
-The two small knives.

Three? Apart from the big one.

-The small ones were in a red box.
-Right.

I found them last night.
I have them in my bag.

-Ditch them.
-No.

[mysterious music playing]

[Marita] One day, they searched my house
and took away several items.

I had come in, that same evening,

and found two small knives
in the cupboard, in plain sight.

LUCA TELESE
JOURNALIST

Marita had found these knives at home,
after three searches,

and believed, quite understandably,
that it was an attempt to frame her.

The next day I went to visit Massimo,
and asked him for an explanation.

Those are the ones I used
to sharpen my pencils.

But one was the one--

Yes, but it's still a knife,
a pocket knife--

Yes, that's the Opinel, but one was…
Do you remember my friend Sandro?

Yes.

He's the one who left it in my van.

He used it to make his joints,
to mix the weed.

There was probably pot in there.

-It's weird that they left it there.
-Ditch them. Throw them away.

Bossetti says, "Damn, what happens
if I find a small knife

that was used to make joints?"

That's what he says
in the wiretapping as well.

"WHO HAS SEEN?"

And he basically says, "Throw it away."

"I don't want any more problems
on top of the many I already have."

He was worried about that, nothing else.

Not that they could have been used
for the crime. Absolutely not.

[journalist] What does Marita
end up doing?

I think she threw them away.
I don't know that.

[journalist] It's not normal for the wife
to throw away two knives,

instructed by her husband
in prison on m*rder charges.

I'm not… I'm not willing to continue
this discussion about knives.

I won't answer you any further.
I've already been sufficiently clear.

[mysterious music playing]

[Telese] Marita becomes a target as well.

Almost a potential accomplice.

She didn't participate
in the crime, of course.

But what kind of person is she?

[woman in Italian] These two knives may
have been used to cut weed for a joint,

which according to Mr. Bossetti was smoked

by his car passenger, not him.

But it all looks very odd to us.

[Salvagni in English] Massimo was unlucky
because there are very suggestive elements

and things he said
that paint him in a certain way.

But if you want to indict someone,
you need something more than that.

DALILA RANALLETTA
FORENSIC DOCTOR FROM THE DEFENSE

The injuries that were inflicted
on Yara were many.

They were not inflicted in a rage.

Which wouldn't even make sense,

because most of these wounds
were inflicted in areas of the body

that do not correspond to vital organs.

Why?

Those wounds were not meant to k*ll.

They had no purpose,
other than drive us crazy

while trying to understand
how things happened.

That's all I'll say.

AUGUST 19TH, 2014
BERGAMO PRISON

[tense music playing]

NOVEMBER 30TH, 2010


AFTER YARA'S DISAPPEARANCE

[Fulvio] Every night,
all I can think about is

what could have happened,

if it might be something
that I could've caused.

I don't think I've ever hurt anyone.

MARCO OLIVA
JOURNALIST

The interesting and striking thing is
that four days after Yara's disappearance,

shortly after nine o'clock in the morning,
her father left a voice message.

-[voicemail beeps]
-[Fulvio] It's been four days, you know?

-Should I start worrying?
-[dramatic music playing]

Call me back. Call me back, guys.

The fact that he used "guys" in plural

evidently suggested
that he might have some ideas,

a particular person, several people.

This raised some flags
and caught the investigators' attention.

[journalist in Italian] What investigators
have are a lot of doubts

and very few certainties.

Some rumors and newspaper articles

suggest that Yara's kidnapping

could be some sort
of retaliation against her father.

[Massimo in English] There was always talk
that perhaps Mr. Gambirasio

had spoken against the Locatelli family,

and that out of spite,
they had made him pay for it.

-[telephone ringing]
-[tense music playing]

[Fulvio on phone] Yes, hello?

[Attanà] Good evening, Mr. Gambirasio.
Mr. Attanà, from L'Eco di Bergamo.

You initially said
that you had no enemies,

that you couldn't think of anything…

[Fulvio] Exactly. Exactly.

And I confirm it all again.

[Attanà] Not even with the kind
of work you do?

You're a surveyor on construction sites.

I mean, there are lots of workers around,
maybe even some--

[Fulvio] You should try asking them.

[Attanà] When the investigators
focused their attention

on the Mapello construction site,

it didn't go unnoticed
that it was contracted

to a large construction company,

owned by
Mr. Pasquale Claudio Locatelli's sons.

[ominous music playing]

[Di Landro] Pasquale Locatelli
is a drug trafficker,

who's serving 26 years
in an Italian prison.

He's known by his nickname,
"Mario from Madrid,"

and is considered
by investigators to be no less

than Pablo Escobar's
contact person in Italy.

His sons have worked for years
with a flooring construction business.

They had some success in Bergamo.

[journalist] Lopav Pima
was founded in 2001,

and in a few years it managed
to become a leader in its sector.

So far, nothing unusual,

except that Lopav's owner,
Mr. Patrizio Locatelli,

was arrested together
with his brother Massimiliano,

on charges of money laundering
from drug trafficking in October 2010,

just a month before Yara's disappearance.

[Fulvio] I know Patrizio as you would know
an entrepreneur from your hometown.

That is, only and exclusively
because he's from Brembate.

Other than that,
I have no connection of any kind.

[journalist] Journalistic sources report
that in the past,

Fulvio Gambirasio
was summoned as a witness

in the trial against Mr. Locatelli.

[Fulvio] They're saying I testified
at the trial to send the Lopav guys

from the Locatelli company to jail.

These claims make no sense at all.

[Attanà] So, the theory of revenge
against the family is a far-fetched idea.

[Maura] Yes, absolutely.

A photo from a Lopav party
is published in a local newspaper,

and we find out that it was quite
a high-profile event.

It's impressive
to imagine the archbishop there,

along with magistrates
from Bergamo's court.

Yara's father was also present,
and so was she.

[dramatic music playing]

[woman] This photo was taken
during a party organized by Lopav,

for its employees and friends.

So, what seemed to be a rumor,
and there were many,

is now taking shape
and has some credibility.

[dramatic music fades]

[mysterious music playing]

At the time Yara went missing,
I was the National President of Penelope…

ELISA POZZA TASCA
PRESIDENT - PENELOPE ASSOCIATION

…an association formed
by the families of missing people.

And so I asked if I would be able
to meet with Yara's mother, in particular.

Maura arrived with her husband.

I remember they looked quite forlorn,
which was understandable.

They were completely in the dark
about their daughter.

There had been no demands for a ransom.

I asked Maura a question.
I was very direct about it.

I said "I want you to think
of all the people who know you,

and all the people who knew Yara."

"Is there someone who could inspire
enough confidence and trust in her

for her to get in their car?"

That's where things stopped.

They stopped
because the father intervened.

He was standing behind her,
pressing on Maura's shoulder,

whispering for her to please consider
that at that moment,

they had three other children to protect.

[sinister music playing]

-[journalist] Basically, she was…
-[Tironi] Where the cars were parked.

[journalist] So, where we see
that last car over there?

[Tironi] Yes.

Initially, there was the hypothesis

that two or more men
may have acted together

to kidnap Yara Gambirasio.

[journalist] One of whom
may be Italian, and the other one--

-A foreigner, I think.
-[journalist] A North African man?

No, not North African. Not here.

[journalist] Okay. Maybe Moroccan.

Maybe he could be Moroccan
or even Romanian.

The testimony on November 28th is
considered unreliable by law enforcement.

So much so a complaint for inciting alarm
was made against the 19-year-old.

However, it started gaining credibility

when other people
living on this street came forward.

I saw two men in the street
shoving each other

about 130 meters
from where the girl lives.

Really close, like this.
I heard screaming as well.

I was walking with my dogs
on Via Rampinelli,

which is the same street where Yara lives,

and I saw two men going towards the gym.

This also matches
the first description given by Mr. Tironi

of a shorter man and a taller one,

who, according to him, were standing
with Yara next to a small red Citroën.

[journalist] It was scratched?

Yeah, it was really scratched.

On the right, the right back side.

He was accurate, so he's considered
reliable by the journalists.

Eventually, these two individuals
that he had identified were found.

They happened to be rather shady people.

They had criminal records, and one
of them had charges related to violence.

[suspenseful music continues]

They also found the red Citroën.

[Tironi] Back wheel was scratched on top.

-[journalist] So, the right, left fender.
-The car body.

Yeah, I think so.

[Oliva] It seemed to the police and to us
that he could really be the key witness

in regards to Yara's disappearance.

He goes willingly
to the prosecutor's office, four times,

repeating this version.

When he arrives there,
he undergoes what we might call

a heavy cross-examination.

That surprised me.
He was just reporting something he'd seen.

The red Citroën was there,
by the way, with the dent.

So he hadn't said anything false.

[Tironi] I was there since 5:00 p.m.

-[woman] Until 11:00 p.m.?
-[Tironi] Yeah.

-[woman] Are you kidding?
-[Tironi] No.

[woman] What did they ask you?

ENRICO TIRONI'S GIRLFRIEND

[Tironi] Things they usually ask.

[Oliva] I don't know if he was afraid,
or if he was intimidated by someone,

but it was enough to make
him suddenly recant his statements.

-[Tironi] Should we go to Scotland?
-[woman] I'll go pack right now.

Tironi ends up moving to a new city,
which is astounding.

I can't give any statements.

-You can't say anything?
-Nothing.

-Have they questioned you?
-Yes. I can't give any statements.

-What do you mean?
-I can't say anything, I'm sorry.

-What have they told you?
-I can't say anything. I just can't.

At the end she asks him,
through the window, as he's leaving,

"Did you see those things or did you not?"

And he says, "I saw what I said,
and I said what I saw."

And he leaves and vanishes.

NOVEMBER 30TH, 2010

[tense music playing]

AUGUST 6TH, 2014


AFTER THE ARREST

[metal door creaking]

[creaking]

[mysterious music playing]

[door clangs loudly]

[footsteps]

[Ruggeri] Look, your legal standing
is also affected by this, Mr. Bossetti.

It changes a lot.

It means that the sentence can be reduced.

You could get benefits, an early release.

Maybe you can start looking
at this in a different light.

[Massimo] I know, but why should I say
I did it when I haven't done anything?

[mysterious music swelling]

[music becomes brooding]

[breathing shallowly]

-It's hard to talk.
-[tense music swelling]

[music fades]

[moody music playing]

[moody music fades]