“Approached Scientology Freely” –

The hunt for Sharon Verzeni’s murder weapon is underway with metal detectors combing the streets of Terno d’Isola (Bergamo). For over three hours, the search by volunteers from Mu.Re., the museum recovering 1915-1918 Alto Garda Bresciano, who are collaborating with the Carabinieri to identify possible clues to the murder, has focused on the Buliga stream and the green area of ​​Via Rota, a few hundred meters from where the woman was stabbed to death on the night between July 29 and 30. The park “could have been the possible killer’s escape point”, the mayor of Terno d’Isola, Gianluca Sala, explained to journalists. For this reason, the large metal detectors that Mu.Re volunteers use to search for relics from the Great War are combing the stream and the bushes surrounding it in search of “further clues useful for continuing the investigation”. First of all, the knife with which Verzeni was killed, still not found a month after the crime. The search activities, as anticipated yesterday and confirmed today by the mayor, will continue tomorrow. This morning, the manholes of via Castegnate, the street of the crime, and the surrounding area were searched.

Meanwhile, the search continues for the cyclist who was riding the wrong way on via Castegnate in Terno d’Isola at a time compatible with the murder. Investigative sources reported this, specifying that the man, filmed by multiple cameras, “has not yet been identified”. Investigators have an idea of ​​who he is but there is still no certainty about his identity, which will only be available when he presents himself spontaneously or is found by those investigating. From what we learn, there are “several” cyclists questioned in the investigation by the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office called to testify because they were filmed by the cameras.

“Maybe someone saw something the night of the murder, but they might be afraid to say it,” he said. Sergio Ruocco, the boyfriend of the murdered barmaid. In an interview with Repubblica, he says he thinks it’s “truly impossible” that the cameras didn’t record anything: “Maybe they need to finish examining them.” All leads are still open, but Sharon’s partner rules out that it could have been the drug dealers who frequent the street who killed his partner: “There were two or three of them, but they weren’t even looking at us.” He’s also not convinced by the lead about her previous job: “I don’t think so, and then some time passed: two years.” But Ruocco has some suspicions: “I don’t know who could have killed Sharon: maybe a customer at the bar (where she worked, ed.) who might have bothered her or they mistook her for someone else,” he tells La Stampa.

Verzeni’s employer, Luca Bertoncelli, owner of the bar in Brembate and of a drug rehabilitation community inspired by the principles of Scientology, was interviewed by Giallo: “I wasn’t at work when Sharon was killed. However, I know that she had become close to Scientology and that she attended the Gorle and Milan sections, even if we never crossed paths. She had chosen to do it freely, no one had forced her”.