The psychologist and criminologist Roberta Sacchi and the scene of the crime
Psychologist Roberta Sacchi, expert in complex crimes, analyzes the murder scene. “It seems likely that the young man knew how to move very well in the area of the ambush”
THE CRIMINOLOGIST
It is a sunny Wednesday, a clear, cloudless morning. It’s very hot. Elisa takes advantage of the beautiful day to go and relax a bit along the banks of the Piave. Summer has arrived, time for swimsuits and tanning. Only the murmur of the river is heard on the Isle of the Dead where the young woman puts down her bag and opens the deck chair. Everything is so peaceful, apparently perfect.
There are not many people around, indeed, almost none. But at a certain point he feels something approaching: it comes from the vegetation, he steps on the changing stones of the beach and appears in front of it like a shadow. It is a man, a young man, who lashes out at her. He has a knife and starts hitting her. She tries in every way to defend herself, as the wounds on her body will say, found by a hiker who immediately raised the alarm. But it was already too late.
While all this was happening, while the rescuers were trying to help Elisa Campeol, her murderer Fabrizio Biscaro was constituted at the Valdobbiadene barracks. Criminologist Roberta Sacchi observes the crime scene from the outside and tries to interpret the elements that gradually emerge to understand what unites the victim and his executioner.
Following traces and fragments, he tries to grasp the clues useful to read what happened.
Doctor Sacchi, putting in line the details of this tragedy, what can be the reading?
“The place of the femicide, an isolated beach is an ideal place to startle a victim. Everything suggests that he knew the area well and above all that he followed the victim, most likely. It is difficult to think of a chance meeting between the two given the area where the crime took place ».
What could be a useful element in the investigation?
“Find out if there were any witnesses who may have seen or even heard something. For example, it would be extremely important if someone heard the victim scream to see if he said the killer’s name. In this case it would be a proof of their knowledge ».
The killer hit the young woman with a knife and many friends in the village describe him as a passionate hunter. How could the weapon have been chosen?
«The weapon is chosen on the basis of the feasibility of the action to be carried out. What you have available you take. The fact that he was a hunter suggests that he knew how to move well in the crime area ».
From the first findings it seems that the victim and the attacker did not know each other, is it likely?
«It seems very difficult that there was no acquaintance between them. Perhaps they did not know each other in person but it is very likely that there was at least a one-way acquaintance, perhaps that the young man had already seen and noticed it before. In the business context of the bar or in the virtual one of social networks. Even from this type of approach, a subjective vision of the relationship on the part of the young person can arise ».
The boy then went to set up at the police station, taking the murder weapon with him. How can the surrender to the authorities be interpreted shortly after the crime?
“All this suggests that it is not a person suffering from significant mental disorders, in which case the killer is usually found in a confused state, disoriented and in shock near the crime scene, with his clothes still smeared with blood . In this case, however, the choice to go to the police gives the impression that the criminal action was foreseen and conscious ”. VALENTINA CALZAVARA