Investigation closes in Yara murder

(ANSA) - Rome, February 27 - An investigation into the disappearance and death of 13-year-old schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio concluded this week - exactly four years after the day her body was found on February 26, 2011.
    The discovery of her remains came four months following her disappearance from the small town of Brembate di Sopra near Bergamo.
    The defense attorney for Massimo Bossetti, the only suspect in the crime, was given a 60,000-page summary of the investigation and notified that it was closed on Thursday.
    Bossetti has been in jail since June, when his DNA was found on the victim's remains.
    The 44-year-old construction worker, who has maintained his innocence throughout the investigation, is accused of aggravated murder in the killing of Gambirasio, and of slander during interrogations for accusing a work colleague of the killing.
    The investigation summary included the transcript of a conversation intercepted between Bossetti and his wife during one of her visits to him in jail, in which she challenges him about his whereabouts on the night of the killing.
    In the transcript, Bossetti's wife, Marita Comi, presses Bossetti on evidence showing his work truck was in front of the sports center Gambirasio was in, at the time just prior to her disappearance.
    "You can't drive around there for forty-five minutes, unless you're waiting for someone," Comi said to Bossetti.
    "I don't know, I'm afraid I'm not able to explain it," Bossetti responded.