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The Yara Gambirasio Case - Missing in Italy Part 1 · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: On November twenty sixth, twenty ten, thirteen year old Yarra
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  Gambiracio went missing. Her body was discovered in scrubland nearby
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  three months later. This initiated one of the most intricate
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  murder investigations in Italian history, which is expected to come
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  to a conclusion later this year. Yarra Gambiracio had only
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  been missing for a short period of time. On the
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  evening of Friday, November twenty sixth, two thousand and ten,
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  at five point fifteen pm, she left her house to
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  head to the gym, which was just a few hundred
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  meters away. Yara, a thirteen year old girl with braces,
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  was getting ready for her rhythmic gymnastics performance scheduled for
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  the following Sunday. She just had to drop off a
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  stereo with her coach. After saying goodbye to her family,
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  who were aware of her destination, she left the house.
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  By seven pm, Yarra had not returned home, causing her
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  parents to grow increasingly worried. Brembarti di Sopra, the town
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  where they resided, was a peaceful place situated on the
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  Bergamask Island between the Brembo and Adda Rivers. Located an
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  hour north of Milan and just south of the Bergamo Alps.
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  The town had a population of eight thousand. The quiet streets,
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  adorned with poplar and cypress trees, offered a view of
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  the distant wooded mountains, their peaks turning blue gray. At
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  seven eleven PM, Yara's mother tried calling her daughter, but
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  the call went straight to voicemail. Twenty minutes later, Yara's
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  father contacted the police. The police connected the call to
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  the public Prosecutor's office in Bergamo, the provincial capital, located
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  eleven kilometers east of Brembarti di Sopra. The magistrate on
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  duty was Letitia Rugeri, a forty five year old former
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  policewoman known for her toughness, having fought against Cosa Nostra
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  in Sicily. With almost fifteen years of experience as a magistrate,
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  she swiftly dispatched both state police officers and carabinieri to
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  Brembarte DIISOPRAA Yarra's gym instructor verified that she had encountered
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  the teenager earlier that day and engaged in some light
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  training before leaving. The authorities promptly determined that the final
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  communication with Yara was a text message she had sent
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  to her friend Martina at six forty four pm, arranging
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  to meet at eight a m. The following Sunday. Subsequently,
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  there was no further contact from her. The gym was
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  situated within a vast sports complex, a flamboyant structure with
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  numerous entrances and exits. In addition to the expansive sports hall,
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  there was a running track, a swimming pool, and various courts.
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  Several individuals reported with witnessing two men potentially conversing with
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  Yara standing near a red car, but there was limited
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  additional information available. Bruggeri enlisted the assistance of tracker dogs,
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  a breed of bloodhound Seguggio Italiano, characterized by short brown
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  and black fur, long ears, sorrowful eyes, and a sharp
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  sense of smell. Instead of tracing the anticipated path back
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  to Yarra's residence on Via Rampinelli, Brugeri's canines proceeded in
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  the opposite direction, towards a nearby small village named Mapello.
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  Upon analyzing the final signals from Yarra's mobile phone, it
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  was revealed that the device had been detected in Mapello
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  at eighteen forty nine that evening, all indications seemed to
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  lead away from Yarra's family, yet investigations of this nature
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  invariably commence within the household. In the ensuing days, Ruggeri
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  and her team interrogated every member of the Gambiracio family,
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  searching for any hints of discord or concealed secrets. Yara's parents,
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  who were well regarded and prominent figures, were thoroughly questioned. Fulvio,
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  her father, was a robust individual with thick glasses, an
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  architect whose father had served as the local postman, just
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  like his mother, Mora. Fulvio's spouse was an educator in Longuelo,
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  a neighboring town. Their marriage appeared solid and they had
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  four children, Yara, an older sister named Kiba fifteen, and
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  two younger brothers, Natan and Gioele, both under the age
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  of ten. Brugeri initiated wire taps on numerous telephones, targeting
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  hundreds of devices. Her team also endeavored to identify the
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  owners of approximately fifteen thousand mobile phones that had been
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  in Mapello on the day Yarra vanished. Among these was
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  a phone belonging to a Moroccan individual named Muhammad Fikri.
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  In a wire tapped discussion from late November, the interpreter
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  discerned the statement forgive me God, I didn't kill her.
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  Fickory had been employed at a construction site in Mapello,
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  but by the time investigators connected the dots a few
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  days later, he was already aboard a vessel heading to Tangiers.
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  On December fourth, Italian authorities intercepted the boat and apprehended Fikri.
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  A search of the van he had been using revealed
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  a mattress stained with blood. People viewed him as the
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  prime suspect Brugery recounted with a hint of regret last year,
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  simply because he was an outsider. However, Fickory was soon
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  exonerated as the statement had been misinterpreted and the blood
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  was unrelayd to the case. As autumn transitioned into winter,
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  Brembata di Sopra became the focal point of a mystery
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  that captivated the nation. The Italian media landscape heavily influenced