Overview
- Sara Di Vita, 15, and her mother, Antonella Di Ielsi, died at the Cardarelli hospital after a sudden cascade of liver failure and multi‑organ collapse linked to a suspected toxic exposure.
- Prosecutors have placed five clinicians under investigation on suspicion of negligent homicide and related offenses, and autopsies on the two victims have been ordered to clarify the cause.
- Police seized seafood, mushrooms, preserves and food scraps from the family home, with samples sent to the Molise Zooprophylactic Institute and Rome’s Gemelli hospital for specialized analysis.
- Lines of inquiry include botulism or listeria, toxic mushrooms such as amanita, and a reported possibility of accidental rodenticide contamination of flour, with no definitive cause confirmed.
- The father, Gianni Di Vita, is hospitalized at Rome’s Spallanzani institute for specialist testing under close monitoring, and his older daughter remains asymptomatic under precautionary observation.