[4] Melis was transferred to a tent for the last 74 days,[5] until she managed to free herself on 11 November of the same year and was found near Nuoro on the side of a provincial road by two plainclothes agents.
Witness Anna Maria Rubatta, a neighbor of Grazia Marine, told investigators that on the night of 5 June 1997, she had seen Marini and Rubanu leave the house in Nuoro with a hooded person.
[1] In the trial of the kidnappers, conducted in first instance and on appeal by judges Mauro Mura and Gilberto Ganassi, Marini, Grazia Marine and Rubanu were found guilty.
[1] Silvia Melis's father started a second negotiation which concluded the agreement for two billion to be paid in one go, on 4 November from Grauso who met the gang's emissaries and handed over the money.
Meanwhile, Silvia Melis had already been transferred to the tent between Orgosolo and Nuoro, where her jailer loosened the chain and then moved away to allow the young woman to leave, reaching the road where she is rescued by a passing car.
Melis allegedly spent a few hours at the commissioner's house, where she was able to wash after 9 months, and put on clean clothes provided by the official's wife.