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Father Questioned in Pietracatella Deaths as Funerals Set for Saturday

Toxicology on the surviving family members returned negative results, leaving the cause of the mother and daughter's deaths unresolved.

Overview

  • Police interviewed Gianni Di Vita and his eldest daughter in Campobasso as persons informed on the facts, focusing on meals consumed before Christmas.
  • Investigators are reconstructing the dinner of December 23 and the following day, noting that the older daughter did not eat at home during the suspected exposure window.
  • Five doctors are under investigation over the care provided after the family twice sought help at the Cardarelli emergency department and contacted the Guardia Medica.
  • Autopsy findings and laboratory analyses of blood, fluids, and seized food and household waste are pending, with early tests excluding rodenticide and mushroom poisoning.
  • Di Vita was discharged from Rome’s Spallanzani hospital after improvement, and tests on him and the other daughter were negative as the town prepares a day of mourning and a school remembrance.