Missing couple, 'the woman was strangled'

Laura Perselli, the Bolzano woman who disappeared on 4 January and whose body was found a month later in the Adige, in Egna, would have died of strangulation. This is what we learn from indiscretions on the autopsy carried out the same day, on behalf of the prosecutor, by the coroner Dario Ragniero and, for the defense, by the anatompatologist Eduard Egarter Vigl. An important result for the investigation into the double murder of the woman and her husband, Peter Neumair, 63, whose body was uselessly searched today with a maxi joke in the Adige that involved hundreds of people and vehicles. From the results of the autopsy - and further investigations - the investigators hope to obtain further clues and evidence to help reconstruct what happened. The couple's son, Benno Neumair, remains in prison, accused of the double murder and the concealment of corpses: the young man, however, continues to claim to be innocent. The maxi operation on the Adige ended today, as mentioned, with nothing, Peter's body was not found.