Denise: the route of the day of the disappearance and the car in which she would have traveled

PALERMO, 22 MAY - The investigations into the disappearance of Denise Pipitone, the child kidnapped in front of her home in Mazara Del Vallo, start exactly where they started 17 years ago. And they start once again with the main suspect, Anna Corona - former wife of Pietro Pulizzi, current husband of Piera Maggio and biological father of Denise - whose position had already been filed. The woman is the mother of Jessica Pulizzi, tried and definitively acquitted of the kidnapping charge. Now Anna Corona would be investigated again for the same crime together with another character already initially involved in the investigation, Giuseppe Della Key. The news of their registration in the register of suspects was given during the program Quarto Grado, broadcast on Rete 4. Thethe indiscretion did not find official confirmation from the Marsala Public Prosecutor's Office, which in recent days had reopened the investigation and is again analyzing some wiretapping. The investigations had immediately focused on Anna Corona after Denise's mother, Piera Maggio, had revealed to the investigators that the child was the natural daughter of Piero Pulizzi and not of her husband Toni Pipitone. Precisely for this reason both Pulizzi's ex-wife and daughter Jessica would have harbored a strong resentment against the woman, held responsible for the end of the marriage. The investigators had immediately gone to Anna Corona's home for an inspection, but incredibly the woman had received them in the apartment of a neighbor on the ground floor, while she lived on the first floor.

That building in via Pirandello has only been inspected in recent days, 17 years after the kidnapping, in search of a secret room or a trap door where the child may have been hidden. In front of the journalists who have returned to interview her again in recent days, Anna Corona defended herself by claiming to be the victim of a "media trial" and added: "My daughters and I can afford to walk with our heads held high in Mazara del Vallo, we have nothing to hide and nothing to be forgiven ". And his lawyer, the lawyer Gioacchino Sbacchi, who was also the defender of Giulio Andreotti, says he learned the news of the alleged entry in the register of suspects by televisions. "To us it does not appear.We will officially ask the Prosecutor if the investigations have actually been reopened. "Giuseppe Della Key, another character already finished in the investigation, is the nephew of Battista Della Key, the deaf-mute witness, now deceased, who had revealed that he had seen little Denise a shed in Mazara del Vallo in her grandson's arms According to the story of Battista Della Key, the child after being kidnapped was taken with a scooter to a pier, wrapped in a blanket, before being loaded on a boat.According to Battista Della Key's story, the child after being kidnapped would have been taken with a scooter to a pier, wrapped in a blanket, before being loaded onto a boat.According to Battista Della Key's story, the child after being kidnapped would have been taken with a scooter to a pier, wrapped in a blanket, before being loaded onto a boat.

Della Key's testimony, collected by the lawyer Giacomo Frazzitta, Denise's family lawyer, had been bitterly contested by her family members who had argued that the man did not know sign language. Before the magistrates, with the help of a consultant, the witness then availed himself of the right not to answer. In recent days, the lawyer Frazzitta received an anonymous letter, delivered to the Public Prosecutor of Marsala. 

The author of the anonymous letter has a name and a face, writes the online newspaper Livesicilia. The criminal lawyer, Giacomo Frazzitta, had launched an appeal to the author of the letter to show up. The two would have met in the law firm and the man would have said he saw Denise in a car with three people on the day of the disappearance. According to her reconstruction, the girl was crying and asking for help by calling her mother. The man has remained silent so far for fear of retaliation. 

On the disappearance of Denise, still shrouded in mystery, the Public Prosecutor of Marsala recently opened an investigation against Anna Corona, ex wife of the child's natural father, and Giuseppe Della Key, grandson of Battista Della Key, the deaf-mute witness, today deceased, who had revealed that he had seen the little girl in a shed in Mazara del Vallo in the arms of a family member intent on making a phone call.

PHOTO ANSA / Carmelo Sucameli