The solution to the mystery of Noemi Impellizzeri, the 33-year-old woman found dead by hanging last August 23 in her home in Riposto (Catania) where a fire had also broken out, has been entrusted to the analysis of the RIS of the Carabinieri of Messina.
While at the beginning there was talk of suicide, announced with messages that the victim would have sent to his friend Tony Proietto, 46 years old, the only suspect in the Catania prosecutor’s investigation for voluntary homicide, the autopsy and subsequent investigations by the police would have made the trail of murder disguised as suicide more solid.
A month after the discovery of the body, both the suspect’s lawyer and the lawyer assisting Noemi’s brothers said they were convinced that it was a homicide”. The Ris focuses above all on the analysis of the material found under the woman’s nails to trace the DNA of the possible attacker. According to one hypothesis Noemi would have been attacked from behind, thrown to the ground where she would have hit her nose and then she would have been strangled perhaps with the same ten meter long rope with which she was found hanged.
“We await the outcome of all the analyzes to arrive at a complete picture, and we hope that the deposit of the forensic copies will take place as soon as possible soon”https://messina.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cronaca/2026/10/14/la-soluto-del-giallo-di-noemi-impellizzeri-affidato-alle-associazione-del-ris-di-messina-1ed9d63e-072c-41d6-85f2-b7b765c9b7d5/.” According to the lawyer Valeria Raciti, the brothers’ lawyer of the victim Erica and Gaetano and the party consultants, Francesco Porcino, Luca Chianelli and Salvatore Spitaleri.
“Our optimism – highlighted Raciti – derives from the fact that excellent work was carried out inside the victim’s home and at the crime scene. The analyzes are underway, and every type of finding will have to be contextualised. Only in the event that it is necessary – Raciti finally observed – will the consultants have the possibility of formulating reservations and observations”https://messina.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cronaca/2026/10/14/la-soluto-del-giallo-di-noemi-impellizzeri-affidato-alle-analysis-del-ris-di-messina-1ed9d63e-072c-41d6-85f2-b7b765c9b7d5/.”In this phase – concluded the criminal lawyer – we must exclusively wait for certain data, which will only be available following the outcome of the investigations carried out by the Catania Prosecutor’s Office. Until that moment, I believe that any hypothesis or statement not based on crystallized certainties could be counterproductive, as well as a hindrance to the Prosecutor’s Office’s sole objective: to find the murderer of Noemi Impellizzeri”.