DENISE PIPITONE 4 - Mazara del Vallo (Sicily) - 01/09/04

Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:03 pm posted by lina_gr Post subject:
Italy

DENISE: OTHER PEOPLE INVESTIGATED, FAMILY VENDETTA CONFIRMED

(AGI) - Trapani, 11 Dec. -

Behind the disappearance of Denise Pipitone lurks the shadow of a mystery concerning her family.
This is the lead followed from the beginning by the Marsala prosecutor Silvio Sciuto. This lead was confirmed by Giuseppe dassaro's declarations involving his former wife Rosalba Pulizza,
Denise's aunt, who is under investigation for complicity in the kidnapping.

Apart from her the other people under investigation are the daughter of the woman, Giovanna Dassaro, and her husband Antonino Cinà in whose Palermo home, according to the 'big accuser', little Denise had been held at least until 17 March 2007. Jessica Pulizza, Denise's step-sister, and Gaspare Ghaleb, Jessica's former boy-friend, have been under investigation for a long time for false testimony to the prosecutor. According to the investigators' main lead, the kidnapping stemmed out of family vendetta.

Jessica - who is the daughter of Denise's natural father - appears to have hated Piera Maggio without accepting the birth of the girls which 'had ruined' her family with her parents' divorce. This anger had been kept hidden for a long time.

http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200712111208-cro-ren0021-art.html

Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:21 am posted by pam supportfromireland Post subject:

This sounds awful,hope a good ending after all this.

Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:28 am posted by lina_gr Post subject:

Hello Pam,
I have a bad intuition about this case after reading the last 2 articles. I think we are close to the end to find what really happened to Denise, and I am afraid it won't have a good ending :cry:

Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:28 am posted by pam supportfromireland Post subject:

Hi lina

Keeping the hope alive as the videos and pictures of her do.

Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:54 pm posted by heidistar Post subject:

Poor little Denise, I hope they soon find out what has happened to her :cry:

Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:20 pm posted by hope4maddy Post subject:

I pray that they find Denise and she is alive and well. Please God! Bring this little girl home to her mother!

Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:33 am posted by shellington Post subject:

OMG how awful. My computer had been down for a week so this is the first time I have seen any of this.

Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:20 pm posted by lina_gr Post subject:

ANSA it.

DENISE, DEAD GIRL, BODY THROWN IN THE SEA (TRAPANI) –

10.12.2007

The body held in a freezer and then it was throwing into the sea. This might have been the tragic end of Denise Pipitone, the child disappeared by Mazara del Vallo the first September 2004, just before her 4 year birthday.
The dramatic story has been confessed by Giuseppe D' Assaro, 46 years, who has been in prison for homicide, confessed to the proxy of the Republic of Marsala, Silvio Sciuto, of having helped his ex-wife to get rid of the body of the little one.
The woman who accuses is the aunt of the child. A new investigation with numerous "black holes", that one of D’ Assaro, which still has led the magistrates to enter in the register of investigated, with the accusation of person's kidnaping, Rosalba Pulizzi. (sister of Denise’s father).

In the afternoon the woman has been questioned for a long time in the offices of the proxy of Marsala; in evening she has been on a confrontation with her ex-husband. And here the initial version of D’Assaro has changed: the body of the child would have been thrown in the sea of Trapani, and not what has been said previously, that has been thrown it to Palermo, where the ex-wife, in the March of 2007, delivered to him in a bag the frozen body of the kid. This could mean that the man, instead of making a 50 kms on a vesp (small mortorcycle) he has carried the bag to Trapani, and he covered an other 100 kms.

D’Assaro, , during the comparison has asserted of having seen Denise some months after her disappearance, in coincidence with the birthday of his daughter. The attorney till few months ago was thinking that the little one might still living, now he assumes that she has been murdered.

Denise's mother, Piera Maggio - says she believes that her daughter is still alive: "As long as there are no findings I am confident. " But there are not evidences that have provided from, Giuseppe D'Assaro. On the contrary, it would have modified different times in his version of the facts after the investigators have shown him that it could not be on the indicated places but in other places, as provided from his mobile phone.

The presumed "turning" in the inquiries goes back in the last July, when Giuseppe D' assaro confesses of having killed his partner, Sabine Maccarrone, a 39-year-old woman, of Swiss origin, found dead on April 16 in a pit of Trapanese.

The murderer maintains that the suspect of the crime would be John Melluso, false repentant appropriate Tortora. Then asked to speak with the prosecutor Marsala, Antonio Silvio Sciuto, who claims to know the background of Denise’s dissapearence.

According to the story the girl was taken to the home of the sister-in-law. The little girl might have felt ill and someone gave her tranquilizers. Probably because of these medicines she could have killed. D'Assaro claims to have learned these circumstances by some relatives, in the period when he was in prison to serve the sentence for another murder occurred in June 1985.

Released definitively from prison at the end of 2005, but have benefited from several perimissions. The body of Denise, always according to this story, it would have been carried from Mazara to Palermo in a sports bag and hidden from Rosalba Pulizzi, in a freezer.

From this new lead of the story is not convinced for anything the lawyer Giacomo Frazzitta, lawyer of Piera Maggio. " This one repented says nonsenses, it is too easy to say that the main evidence, which is the body of the girl, does not exist any more. Ms Maggio Denise’s mother added that she is upset by these indiscretions that violate the confidentiality of investigations and leave us very perplexed."

The Prosecutor of Marsala "censures the leaks" and argues that "we are continuing to work with the direct commitment to the search for truth. A truth that, for the moment, seems still seems shrouded in mystery.

http://wwww.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/visualizza_fdg.html_40230195.html

Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:43 pm posted by vonb Post subject:

Thanks for this Lina, just can't believe this story as it is unfolding - The drugs theory sounds very similiar to the PJ's theory that the McCanns drugged Madeleine and accidently gave her too much and killed her. I really do hope that the family haven't harmed her in any way and are keeping her safe somewhere.
:scratch:

Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:21 pm posted by hope4maddy Post subject:

vonb wrote:

Thanks for this Lina, just can't believe this story as it is unfolding - The drugs theory sounds very similiar to the PJ's theory that the McCanns drugged Madeleine and accidently gave her too much and killed her. I really do hope that the family haven't harmed her in any way and are keeping her safe somewhere.

Good point vonb. I never thought of that.

Yes, please find her and bring her home safe!

Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:08 pm posted by pam supportfromireland Post subject:

This story is nervewrecking as family involved.Hope a good ending and not a bad one please.

Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:07 pm posted by lina_gr Post subject:

vonb wrote:

Thanks for this Lina, just can't believe this story as it is unfolding - The drugs theory sounds very similiar to the PJ's theory that the McCanns drugged Madeleine and accidently gave her too much and killed her. I really do hope that the family haven't harmed her in any way and are keeping her safe somewhere.

It's unbelievable how many similiarities there are with Maddie's kidnapping. Both girls were just before their 4th birthdays. There were not any witnesses when the girl was kidnapped, and after that. They say now about drugs, might of died from accident. They are talking about freezer and the body kept there, and then thrown the body in the sea.
And the last one, that all this is a revenge matter.
So many things in common from all these we have read for maddie.
The only difference is that in Denise's case the family is involved. hmm
I just hope so much that all these are nonsenses in Denise's case,
and this aunt. I can't believe how evil could be, she and the first daughter of Denise's father.

Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:28 am posted by lina_gr Post subject:

Questioning cousins.

December 13, 2007


Cousins and cousins in hearing

The Prosecutor Marsala interviewed Giovanna D'Assaro, the cousin of Denise and Antonino Cina, a cousin of Denise Pipitone. They both agreed to a possible involvement in the abduction of the child. Both are assisted by their lawyer, Maître Arianna Rallo.

The mother of Giovanna D'Assaro, Rosalba Pulizzi, sister of the natural father of Denise and repentant ex-wife of Giuseppe D'Assaro, would most likely be involved in the kidnapping of Denise.

Giuseppe, the repentant, accuses her and her son-in-law, for having concealed early in their homes Denise Palermo until March 2007!

Note that this is, for now, an assumption based on the statements of repentant.

There is nothing to confirm this hypothesis for the moment.

What is not clear, the various declarations of Giuseppe.
According to him Denise's body had been kept in a freezer before being thrown into the sea.

What we chiffonne in these statements is the fact that Denise would have remained hidden until March 2007.

That means kept alive in this house for 3 years without a break and without being caught by neighbors, family, friends, the police and so on.

Where the repentant tries to make us believe that Denise was retained 3 years in a freezer before we decided to get rid of the body?
This reflection, a bit macabre, no pretension that draw attention to the side a bit too sensational for about repentant.

Perhaps the Attorney owner of the evidence, but by what he reveals other evidence, allow us to doubt the words of Giuseppe.

http://tinyurl.com/2bh3ba

Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:15 am posted by lina_gr Post subject:

Google translation

The response of Piera, the mother of Denise.

December 14, 2007

There are some who argue that statements Denise Pipitone was killed. We understand the "love of a mother," but do you think that persist in believing that Denise is alive is more a hope than certainty?

First of all I would like to say that so far, certainties, you have not and there is not yet the day when there will be the day when we can understand exactly what it happened and where is my daughter. The fact is that as long as one does not produce evidence that confirms that Denise is dead, then logically it must be assumed that it is alive. The world is big enough so that we lose the trail of a person, especially if it's a child, and in addition removed. The truth is that that is no longer Denise, without providing concrete evidence is merely an act of convenience that can possibly cover other truths that I discover.

People, Italians, listening to the facts news of the last few days tend to see the event ended with doubts, however. What do you think about this attitude?

Each of us, for reasons typically related to the psychology of the individual, tends to take away from him, which is unacceptable, what might be defined as "uncomfortable truths". In short we tend to accept the solution that removes the burden of the problem rather than what removes the problem itself. Let me explain: it is difficult to accept the weight of the disappearance of a person, all the months, days, minutes and seconds where they lack at home. All tend to think "more comfortable" that the person is no longer alive, so that the problem could ease the concern and find peace. But unfortunately who knows confront reality realizes that this is an illusion which hides the uncomfortable truth of a person to be searched. If a person disappears, it is inevitably also somewhere on this planet. So it should not be so difficult to obtain proof of the death of a person from the one who committed the crime, admitted that he knows what you are talking about and are not just inventions misleading.

You think the statements that are not proven inventions?

Exact. One of the most unique is that we tend to believe that in a lie there is always a background of truth. At this, I do solves absolutely not. A story is pure fantasy, and that is all. If someone wants to show something, then it must do so not with words but with the facts. Everything else is not credible and on the contrary, it could be used to divert the investigation and public opinion.

You mentioned public opinion: does it matter what the Italians think on the facts products?

I would be a naive if I did not know that the public has a very strong weight to the political choices. And the political choices have an impact on the regulation and therefore the ability to investigate on the part of investigators. Until now it is really thanks to the Italians who are interested in research that I was able to work and have the force for search Denise. This is not just a fact linked to reports, but really a defining characteristic of our country. The reputation and resonance of a specific fact are fundamental to the evolution of itself. If there were no public interest for my daughter, a lot of people anyway have worked, others have not. So for me there should be no doubts in the public mind: it is necessary that the Italians and people from other nations know that my daughter is alive. I invite anyone knowing me something to provide proof to the contrary. Otherwise I invite Italy and other countries to not believe anyone's fantasies: they believe only proven facts and certainty, which alone will lead us to the truth about the case of my daughter.

What is the relationship between regulation and the ability to investigate on the part of investigators?

The report is very narrow: in Italy there is a law on the kidnapping of minors is not adjourned and in addition it has large gaps in particular concerning the criminality of the crime: if sequestration is not committed late exaction, it is clear that the offense is strongly decriminalized.

What is the power of bodies investigators to obtain information from respondents?

No, because if the sentence was near zero, no one has interest in speaking to worsen its position. On the other hand if the penalty for this type of offense is being developed to greater levels, at this point, who knows has an interest in talking to not to be condemned and expect duty years and years in prison. It may sound like a negotiation, but these are the facts. That is why I am chained to the Quirinale, to sensitize public opinion and the Chambers (Parlemente and Senate) on the proposed reform of this law, which was drafted by my legal review and that it located at the following link: http://www.cerchiamodenise.it/denise/prospettivediriforma.htm

On newspapers, we read a lot of stuff on you, your privacy and your son.

Do you think that interest justified? Absolutely not. I find the "justifiable" only if this could be decisive in the search for my daughter. But this is not the case: in fact, on the contrary, in some respects it is also harmful because you lose time in reconstructions most often without any reliability, which is detrimental to minors and great suffering in the privacy of people. All of this is contrary to the Charter of Treviso, regulating the press code when it comes to minors. These are standards that journalists can not not know and that should apply when writing articles and, instead, everyone ignores it completely. Fortunately, most Italian journalists has great respect for the cause and avoids produce further damage. You can give good information without harming anyone: for this reason, the Association Cerchiamo Denise Onlus, is a signatory of a charter of ethics of journalism, which was set up as a form of self-regulation for the media when dealing with cases of missing and abused children, which can be accessed on the link: http://www.childrenandmedia.it

You have now gained notoriety and some people are wondering how to reconcile it with the search for her daughter?

Here is another problem of human logic: do not realize the reality of others, as the needs of others, not in ours. Let me be clear: I do not want any form of entertainment or advertising: If I could re-embrace my daughter tomorrow morning I would give my own life, imagine if I am interested in what media circus. For me, as the mother of a child kidnapped, it has no interest, but if you look at the World TV with the eyes of those who do not have problems, then you understand why some of these comments born: in fact, there is a "dramatic" but we do not understand the deep pain behind all this. But on the other hand, what is the purpose of the media? A diffuse, to communicate. And I only use them according to their nature, to propagate the image of my daughter for search and also to inform other people about the proposed renewal of the law on child abduction. Qu'attend-t-on a mother? She starts in a bed while waiting desperately following the events? That would have made a mother "just" and who suffers? I suffer terribly, but at the same time, I remain strong for my daughter, because it is for them that I do and I am sure that many mothers in Italy would have done the same for her, I ask that to be included in my struggle without receiving length of time that weighty judgments, frankly, are totally devoid of credibility.

(Sez. 23) 12/12/2007
Piera Maggio

http://tinyurl.com/2bh3ba

Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:34 pm posted by ConcernedAboutMadeleine Post subject:

Thanks for this latest post Lina. That poor woman. I know that she is suffering!! It sounds that she has a handle on the media from what I've interpreted from the interview. I'm glad to see a proposal for the media regarding situations when children are involved. I hoped this is picked up worldwide regarding children & the media.

Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:27 pm posted by merlynsam Post subject:

DENISE: AUNT UNDER INVESTIGATION

(AGI) - Trapani, Dec 10 - Rosalba Pulizzi, aunt of Denise Pipitone, has become one of the people under investigation for the kidnapping of the little Denise Pipitone in Mazara del Vallo on September 1, 2004. According to the public prosecutor's office, the woman is under investigation for kidnapping and complicity in murder. At present she is being interrogated in the public prosecutor's office in Marsala.

Pulizzi is the sister of the girl's natural father and the former partner of Giuseppe Dassaro, the man who turned himself in last July, confessing the murder of the 39-year-old Swiss Sabine Maccarrone, found dead on April 16 in a dry well in Mazara del Vallo. Dassaro would have told the magistrates that he has news about Denise Pipitone. Searches are in progress in Palermo and Trapani on orders of the public prosecutor's office in Marsala. D'Assaro would have declared that he has seen the girl playing with a cousin in the house of Pulizzi and that has transported her in a sort of fridge to the land between the two provinces. This afternoon there should be a confrontation between the man and the aunt of Denise. The public prosecutor's office has three open files in the context of this investigation: one regarding Jessica for kidnapping, another against Gaspare Ghaleb (former partner of Denise's half-sister for false declarations to the Public Prosecutor, and the third regarding people still unknown. But after what was said in September by the public prosecutor's office in Marsala it is clear that this third file now holds names. "The unknown are no longer unknown" Public Prosecutor Antonino Silvio Sciuto said this September in Mazara del Vallo

http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200712101801-cro-ren0052-art.html

Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:55 am posted by lina_gr Post subject:

Google translation

Enfants Kidnappes

January 11, 2008

We are moving towards a resolution of the case?

"My impression is that we will make a resolution of the case.
Magistrates have in hand all the elements to resolve the matter, beyond statements, true or false by Giuseppe d'Assaro" said Giacomo Frazitta
The lawyer of the mother of Denise.
Despite a confrontation that lasted until 04h00 in the morning and search and seizure of documents and various objects at the home of Rosalba Pulizzi, the words of Giuseppe D'Assaro seem less credible see completely wrong.

Indeed, at a time of the abduction Denise Rosalba was his work. "His alibi is concrete" his lawyer said today, Mariella Martinciglio adding that his client "has demonstrated its non-involvement without difficulty.
She rejected all accusations of her ex-husband and was able to prove that by 1 September 2004, at the disappearance of Denise, it was his work.
No evidence has been given by her former husband. And there is no ongoing investigation against him. "

In an article published by The New Detective, mention was made of the death of the small overdose of sedative following his long detention in a cellar with her aunt. These assertions were made around the press.
But at the moment, there is no evidence to support this finding. Also, Peter, uncle Denise, has published a correction that we deliver here in part:

"The confessions of the detainee must be taken with great caution.
Since nothing that advance could be proved. And it is important, because without his statements, there is no reason to believe that Denise is dead. "

What interest would he (the inmate) to lie?

"It has nothing to lose since it has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Conversely, by inventing this scenario, it seems to want to take revenge on his wife which it is separated for more than ten years.
He contends that it She took him to agree to throw the baby into the sea against a large sum of money. audits of the police did not confirm its contention. And indeed, he changed his version to several times. Everything does not stand up! "

This seems particularly irritate you ...

"Yes. For more serious is that these lies suggest that Denise died, while I am convinced that it is alive!"

Who do you think has removed?

His half-sister, Jessica. The latter has always been a pathological jealousy, obsession, with respect to Denise. She has never been able to bear that his father left his mother for another woman.
And it was avenged by removing Denise. After kidnapped, Jessica has asked for help from her mother, who agreed to hide the child. "


What are the elements which support this hypothesis?

"The first is that Jessica has provided a false alibi to investigators.
She claimed to be at a place when she was in another wiretapping has been proven. Worse, the police were also surprised one conversation she had with her mother, pending interrogation. She told him exactly this: 'Look, I have to tell you. I took her to the house ...' Jessica speaks
of Denise ... "

What happened to Denise?

"It is not known, but a videotape in October 2004, nearly two months after his disparito, gives us great hope .(..) A security guard has been named one of a band of beggars who were standing in hdl (..)
He filmed the scene with his cell phone (..) A child asks a strange question to one of the men who accompanies: 'Where m'amènes you still?'.
It 's expresses in an Italian accent without (..) Finally, when he was interrogated, the vigil spoke of a small scratches on his cheek as Denise was one. A detail that could not have invented. (. .) morphological studies were conducted by the police for them, there is 90% chance whatsoever for Denise (..)"

http://www.kidnapping.be/denise/denise.html

Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:51 pm posted by lily Post subject:

Interesting photos on Brian Ladd's Site - right at bottom.

http://www.briansprediction.com/MISSING/publicr/537.htm

Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:07 pm posted by hope4maddy Post subject:

OMG Lily...I can't believe the pictures. It really looks like her doesn't it? Is this company stationed in New York? Oh, I really hope this is the break needed to find this little girl and so many other ones being abused. Oh Please Dear Lord!

Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:11 am posted by Micki Post subject:

Lily wrote:

Interesting photos on Brian Ladd's Site - right at bottom.

http://www.briansprediction.com/MISSING/publicr/537.htm

Hi Lily, I have just seen these pictures, if it is Denise, it is really hard to tell, the fact that makes me sick is whoever the child is, she should not be there in the first place. My mind boggles. Does anyone know if the Police are following up or investigating this website. I was so tempted to go onto that website, but thought better not to, I have seen enough, I just feel sick in the stomach.

Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:30 pm posted by Lily Post subject:

Micki wrote:
Lily wrote:
Interesting photos on Brian Ladd's Site - right at bottom.

http://www.briansprediction.com/MISSING/publicr/537.htm


Hi Lily, I have just seen these pictures, if it is Denise, it is really hard to tell, the fact that makes me sick is whoever the child is, she should not be there in the first place. My mind boggles. Does anyone know if the Police are following up or investigating this website. I was so tempted to go onto that website, but thought better not to, I have seen enough, I just feel sick in the stomach.

Hi Micki
Just gone back into the link above to Brian Ladd and it would appear that someone has been in touch with Denise's mother to advise her of the information on Brians site.

Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:44 pm posted by Belle Post subject:

I have checked out the website and 'bubbles' seems to look just like Denise, there is a picture where her ears look not the same as they are covered by her hair, but in another picture, her ears are the same as her mother's website pictures. I will forward the site on to the Denise site in the hope they will check it, and also to the authorites.

It says in the website she is 6 years old,

I agree, the website is just wrong.

Hopefully, the right authorities will know how to find the agency. :|

Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:45 pm posted by Micki Post subject:

Lily wrote:
Micki wrote:
Lily wrote:
Interesting photos on Brian Ladd's Site - right at bottom.

http://www.briansprediction.com/MISSING/publicr/537.htm


Hi Lily, I have just seen these pictures, if it is Denise, it is really hard to tell, the fact that makes me sick is whoever the child is, she should not be there in the first place. My mind boggles. Does anyone know if the Police are following up or investigating this website. I was so tempted to go onto that website, but thought better not to, I have seen enough, I just feel sick in the stomach.


Hi Micki
just gone back into the link above to Brian Ladd and it would appear that someone has been in touch with Denise's mother to advise her of the information on Brians site.

Thanks for that Lily, I really hope her mother does react to it, just wish there was a way we could all pounce on these wicked people and sort them out once and for all. Just looking at something like this makes me feel so helpless. I really hope Denise is found soon and all the other little children that are missing.

Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:12 pm posted by crys Post subject:

oh my God this is shocking. does anyone know what would be the best authority to contact about this? obviously she is Italian, but the website seems to be American. would the CEOP be the best to report this to? I feel that i should send this information again, just to be on the safe side that it has reached the correct authorities.

Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:19 pm posted by Belle Post subject:

I have just sent it to Interpol and the Italian police that is dealing with the case..

Fingers crossed. xx