Claudio Sterpin, the man linked to Liliana Resinovich, the woman who disappeared in Trieste on 14 December 2021 and found dead on the following January 5 in the grove of the former Opp, has died. Sterpin, a former marathon runner, was 86 years old and died in Trieste. The news of his passing was made known last night by the program Quarto Grado and spread in Trieste among many friends, bouncing around on social media.
Sterpin was the last person to hear Liliana on the phone the morning she disappeared and has always maintained that he had a relationship with her which would have soon developed into a cohabitation if she had not disappeared first.
Claudio Sterpin’s was a battle that began shortly after Liliana’s disappearance and ended yesterday, conducted with TV interviews, statements to the press, appeals, to affirm the feeling that – according to him – bound them. A position always denied by the woman’s husband, Sebastiano Visintin, who never believed in a link between the two. Liliana and Sterpin had, however, had an affair in their youth.
Video Resinovich case, Visintin-Sterpin clash before the evidentiary incident
In recent years, Visintin and Sterpin have constantly been at the center of debates and confrontations, with bitter mutual accusations which then also became legal battles. Only a short time ago Sterpin had declared: “I’ve been seething for years. Because I don’t think Sebastiano was the perpetrator, I don’t think he killed her but he knows very well who it was.”
Phrases that he had also repeated in court in Trieste, during the recent evidentiary incident, requested and obtained by prosecutor Ilaria Iozzi to take the man’s testimony. Upon leaving he reiterated “I repeated everything I said up until today. Everything or almost everything, otherwise it would have taken three days. I used the time I had to repeat things I had said over and over again. Always the same version, because there is only one version”. Among Sterpin’s latest public outings, there was a demonstration in front of the Trieste court last December, a sit in with Resinovich’s friends and relatives. There he held a large photo of Liliana tightly in his hands, reiterating: “We need to get to the truth quickly.”
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date: 2026-02-14 14:45:00
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