Trapani Carabinieri police on
Wednesday inspected the home in the Sicilian town of Mazara del
Vallo of Anna Corona, the former wife of Pietro Pulizzi, the
biological father of four-year-old Denise Pipitone who went
missing on September 1, 2004.
The woman is the mother of Jessica Pulizzi, the child's
stepsister who was tried and acquitted by a court of first
instance and two court of appeals over the alleged abduction of
the child whose disappearance has remained a mystery.
The inspection was ordered by prosecutors in Marsala to
"verify the state of the location and whether construction work
was carried out", investigative sources said.
The State attorney's office in the Sicilian city has just
reopened an investigation into the child's disappearance after
witnesses reportedly spoke about a trap door in the house.
Investigative sources in Marsala, however, have denied that
investigators are looking for the body of the child, who went
missing in Mazara del Vallo.
The allegation was made during the "Ore 14" program of State
broadcaster's Rai2, when Giacomo Frazzitta, the lawyer of
Denise's mother Piera Maggio, said he had heard about the
report, which was not officially confirmed by prosecutors.
(ANSAmed).
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