I report here some personal considerations that are absolutely marginal to the subject of the narrative and concern the publicly available news about the case.
Despite thorough research there is no trace of any relationship Mirko had, either with Miriam or with anyone else. NOTHING, not even a post on social media.
The facts as can be found in the media and on the internet are as follows:
-Mirko’s wife had passed away due to an illness about a year and a half before Mirko’s suicide, while Miriam told me she had been with him for about a year and had even taken the trip together to Rome.
-There are various confirmations and testimonies that Mirko had not managed to recover and that he was still emotionally attached to his wife, including a fragment written by Mirko before killing himself and various commemorative posts about his wife made by him on social media.
-There is no evidence that Mirko was being treated by a doctor or psychologist, nor that he had been prescribed psychotropic drugs, even though his state of depression had been noticed by many.
-In Miriam’s memories there is no trace of any drugs used either by Mirko or by her.
-Apart from a portrait and two caricatures made during their trip to Rome and hung in his room, it is impossible to find an “objective” confirmation of the relationship that took place between Miriam and Mirko.
THEREFORE, although there are no obvious inconsistencies between the newspaper reports and Miriam’s accounts, unusual and hard-to-explain details remain; some possible “alternative” explanations, and in some points synergistic, are the following:
A) Mirko may have tried to “replace” his wife with Miriam and his fervent declarations of love were more self-persuasion than the substance of his feelings (that is, that he wasn’t really that much in love).
B) The whole collective unconscious, which then ended up in the media reconstruction, may have ignored Miriam because she was deemed “unworthy” to replace the wife due to her criminal past and drug addiction