Poisoned deaths in Pietracatella, some computers stolen from the raided school

Fourth day of searches, ordered by the Larino prosecutor's office, in as many schools in the Pietracatella area. Investigators are looking for traces of any research regarding ricin on the PCs of the schools where people involved in the affair work. 4 or 5 computers were stolen from the Casacalenda complex, where Laura, Gianni Di Vita's cousin, currently under search, teaches.

The theft of some computers complicates the investigation into the Pietracatella mystery. They began around 9am and ended around four hours after the searches in the fourth and final school which ended up at the center of the investigation into the death of Antonella Di Ielsi and her daughter Sara Di Vita, poisoned with ricin and who died in December 2025. The Larino prosecutor's office has ordered the analysis of the computers present in four schools in the area: at the center of the crosshairs are the institutes in which four people involved in the affair in different roles worked, as teachers or students.

After the Agricultural Institute of Riccia, where the husband of the teacher friend of Gianni Di Vita, father and husband of the victims, works as a laboratory technician, the Scientific High School of Riccia, where the teacher friend of Di Vita teaches and the Classical High School of Campobasso, attended until last year by Sara and her sister Alice, today it is the turn of the school complex of Casacalenda, where Laura, cousin of Gianni Di Vita, teaches. Here, however, some computers were stolen last March: the IT inspection, therefore, cannot cover all the PCs that have been active in the school in the last year precisely because some of these, four or five in total, were stolen by unknown persons. The theft was known to the police who, in recent months, investigated the matter. Unlike the searches carried out in other schools in the last three days, this morning data from a single notebook was also taken: it is not known, however, who used it.

Investigators are looking for traces of any research involving ricin. The investigations on the computers of schools therefore aim to establish which searches were carried out, at what time and by whom, through the reconstruction of the possible chronology of consultations on the web. The specialists also check for the possible presence of a proxy server, a system that can act as an intermediary in internet traffic and which could provide useful information to understand how navigation from the school computers took place.

Meanwhile, the father and husband of the two victims spoke again in a brief interview with Corriere della Sera. “I never believed they wanted to kill me,” Gianni Di Vita said. "Just as I never thought that they wanted to kill my daughter and my wife," he added. Regarding the ongoing investigation, the man did not say too much: "Let's leave it to the investigators, they know many more things than we imagine."