Little Denise Pipitone was born on 26/10/2000, in Mazara del Vallo (Trapani) – Sicily – Italy. In a little bit of time, during preparatives for launch, Denise disappered, probably kidnapped in front of her home, on the 01/09/2004 in Domenico La Bruna street, at the angle with Castagnola street, that was linked to highway. The last time that Denise was seen is at 11,45 a.m. After 48 days from missing, on 18^th of October, a guard that works to protect bank institutes, in Milan, saw a little child accompanied by some nomads (a man, two women and three children). This child appeared very  similar in somatic features to little Denise. He called Police, but before their arrive, nomads leave the place. The guard made a videoclip with his phone, and some photograms was published on MISSING KIDS at this internet address:  

http://it.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=it_IT&PageId=1931

 In videoclip, a women of the nomad group said to child: “Danàs” and she answered, in perfect italian language, “Dove mi porti” (where do you lead me?). The first time, this videoclip was trasmitted by Italian Television on TG3 (RAI 3 – Sunday – 20/03/2005), the day after Piera Maggio (Denise’s mother) told to press that she was convinced that the little child captured by videoclip was Denise, her daughter.  Moreover, the guard saw a scratch under the left eye and at the time of missing, Denise effectively, had a little scratch under the same eye.  After Italian Military Police analysis, the images captured in videoclip was declared to have seven points of similitude to Denise, but it’s not possible to confirm this hypothesis because no DNA was taken from the child of videoclip. The most probably hypothesis about Denise’s missing is that she was kidnapped from her home and after she was left to a group of Rom, but nobody knows the nomads captured by videoclip.

 Family don't think that little Denise was kidnapped by Rom, but child can be with them now. Denise may be with another family

Le matin du 1 er Septembre 2004 (pdf)

Denise's official web sites :

  www.cerchiamodenise.org  (international)    www.cerchiamodenise.it (italian)

 

Police Investigation Direction for children in Italy:

sezioneminori@interno.it

 

Pocket photo and contacts 01 (pdf) 179KB - cm 10x8

Pocket photo and contacts 02 (pdf) 751KB - cm 10x8

Pocket photo and contacts 03 (pdf) 178KB - cm 10x16

Pocket photo and contacts 04 (pdf) 747KB- cm 10x16

Pocket photo and contacts 01 (jpg) - sideA - 673KB - cm.10x8

Pocket photo and contacts 02 (jpg) - sideB - 1,30MB - cm 10x8

Pocket photo and contacts 03 (jpg) - 1,35MB - cm 10x16

Bank Account poster (jpg)

Poster in English with useful numbers (jpg)

Poster in English with useful numbers IBAN current account (jpg)

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