Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
WBN Editor
An investigator hired by boxing legend Arturo Gatti’s manager
Pat Lynch have given his verdict after a thorough investigation into the
death of the two-weight world champion, who died in Brazil in 2009.
Chicago-based P.I Paul Ciolino has put his findings into a
detailed report, which will be released on August 30th, but gave his
opinion to New Jesery-based newspaper The Jersey Journal after a ten-month operation.
Gatti died aged 37 whilst on holiday with his wife Amanda Rodrigues and his young son in north
east Brazil and after an investigation by the Brazilian authorities was deemed
a suicide. Brazilian police had said that the exciting prize fighter was drunk
and depressed and used his wife’s purse strap to hang himself whilst his wife
and son slept upstairs, which Ciolino totally disagrees with.
"I think that when
we get done with the press conference it will be pretty clear it was not a
suicide," Ciolino
told The Journal.
"It was not physically
possible, given the circumstances and their (Brazilian police) theories.
Ciolino also added that
the Brazilian police investigation was "half-assed" and "The
autopsy was totally incomplete.”
“They did a lot of
things that were not acceptable practice anywhere in the world. It was just
totally inaccurate," added Ciolino.
Many fans around the
world, along with members of Gatti’s family refused to believe that the boxer
nicknamed ‘Thunder’ would take his own life and Ciolino, without blaming her
directly, has said if suicide is ruled out that only leaves Gatti’s wife as the
culprit.
"We don't have to
(point any fingers), only one person was in the apartment that night.”
Ciolino has claimed
that he has evidence in his possession, "which will conclusively lay to
rest the mystery surrounding Gatti's cause of death."