Dfter the success of the podcast of the same name, tonight and tomorrow at 9pm on Sky Crime, Sky TG24 and streaming on NOW he arrives Where no one looks – The Elisa Claps case. The two-part series – broadcast at 10.20pm also on Sky Documentaries and produced by Chora Media – deals with one of the darkest news cases in our country.
Where no one looks – The Elisa Claps casethe series on Sky Crime and Sky TG24
Pablo Trincia tells the storyauthor together with director Riccardo Spagnoli. Wear the shoes of a contemporary Virgil, thirsty for truth, who accompanies the viewer in the twists and turns of the story. Gently, but with no holds barred. Elisa Claps was sixteen years old when she disappeared into thin air on 12 September 1993. He lives in Potenza with his family, his brothers Gildo and Luciano, his mother Filomena and his father Antonio.
That morning, after mass, meets Daniele Restivo in the church of the Santissima Trinità. From that moment on, all traces of her have been lost. Suspicions immediately fall on Restivo, but there is no news of Elisa. The family begins a long search that will last seventeen years. Until, that is, the girl’s body was found in the attic of the church only on March 17, 2010.
In Where no one looks – The Elisa Claps case Pablo Trincia meets the protagonists, starting with his brother Gildo, who immediately did everything to discover the truth. The same goes for her mother, Filomena, who never lost heart, even when no one listened to her. Still, the investigation brings together judicial documents, documents, unpublished testimonies and videos that have never been released in full until now. In particular this is the last video of Elisa still alive and videos of Restivo, never disclosed before. To these is added some procedural material unpublished to the media, which until now no one had ever requested and obtained.
“Where no one looks – The Elisa Claps case”, the docuseries on the disappearance of Elisa Claps on Sky Crime. (Sky)
Restivo’s conviction and Elisa’s portrait
Space, then, to tell the story of the personality of Daniele Restivo, a murderer who remained at large for years, only framed following another murder. Man, in fact, expatriates. He moved to England, where he married and in 2002 killed another womanneighbor Heather Barnett. For this murder in 2011 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. For that of Elsa Claps in 2013 in Italy he was sentenced to 30 years. Today he is serving his sentence in England.
With the help of the recovered material, Pablo Trincia he doesn’t just tell the facts, but returns to the public a portrait of Elisa Claps never traced before. Trincia digs to the bottom of the story, but it also wants to tell who Elisa was, a sixteen-year-old high school student who dreamed of studying medicine. A good girl, adored by friends and family, brutally killed from a peer. And whose body remained hidden in one of the most sacred places there could be. There where no one looks.
Trincia also tries to answer several questions. That is, she tries to understand why the body wasn’t found sooner. It also explains the various stages of the ordeal experienced by the Claps familyfrom the moment of his disappearance to the investigations that always ended in a soap bubble.
Pablo Trincia on the set of the docuseries “Where Nobody Looks – The Elisa Claps Case”. (Sky)
The Elisa Claps casea wound still open
The disappearance of Elisa Claps has occupied the news pages for some time. And even when the search turned up nothing, the family continued to fight for answers. TV has dealt with it on and off, except Who has seen?which has never turned off the spotlight. Indeed, on the day the body was found, it was the presenter Federica Sciarelli who called Elisa’s mother, Filomena, to entertain her on the phone while waiting for her brother Gildo to arrive home to tell her the news.
In addition to Sky, Rai 1 also covered the murder. In fact, the broadcast of For Elisa – The Claps casea 3-part series starring Gianmarco Saurino, in the role of Gildo Claps. The cast also includes Anna Ferruzzo, Vincent Riotta, Vincenzo Ferrera, Giacomo Giorgio, Bianca Nappi, Rosa Diletta Rossi, Francesco Acquaroli and Giulio Della Monica, the latter in the role of Daniele Restivo.
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