Rumors about IP linked to ricin research in the Pietracatella case denied

News and denials in the investigations into the so-called Pietracatella mystery, the town where Antonella Di Ielsi and her fifteen-year-old daughter Sara Di Vita died, poisoned with ricin in December 2025. In the last few hours, news had circulated that the IP address of a computer had been identified in the United States from which a search on the methods of preparing ricin powder would have started, with the computer address that would have led to an area coinciding with the Pietracatella area. However, the news was denied by investigators. "No computers and no IP addresses relating to online searches for ricin were identified by the investigators", clarified the Larino prosecutor Elvira Antonelli, in charge of the investigation. "I deny it," she wrote to journalists who asked her to confirm the rumors that had been circulating. The same reconstruction was denied by the head of the Campobasso Flying Squad, Marco Graziano: "I too, like the prosecutor, have no news in this sense".

The friend of the teacher close to Di Vita was questioned on Thursday

Yesterday afternoon, however, still at the police station in Campobasso, the investigators spoke for a couple of hours to a friend of the teacher from Riccia, close to Gianni Di Vita. According to what we learn, the hearing is considered of particular importance in the investigation. The man reached and left the police offices without passing through the main entrance, where reporters and television operators were stationed for hours. A method that allowed us to maintain maximum confidentiality on the interview.

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Ricin mystery, investigations still continue against unknown persons