The physique of a lacking girl was discovered beheaded and stuffed in a suitcase in a well-known vacationer area — three weeks after she disappeared, authorities mentioned,
Maria Denisa Paun, 30, a Romanian nationwide, disappeared from her dwelling within the city of Prato, in Tuscany, on Could 15.
Her stays have been discovered on Wednesday close to an deserted farmhouse in Montecatini Terme — about 25 miles west of Florence, Italian media reviews.
An area safety guard has admitted to murdering Denisa, slicing off her head with a knife, then setting hearth to it with gasoline, Corriere Fiorentino reviews.
Denisa, who labored as an escort, reportedly threatened to inform the person’s spouse if she didn’t pay him.
Vasile Frumuzache, 32, who can also be a Romanian nationwide, faces fees of homicide and suppression of a corpse, in accordance with prosecutors.
The married father-of-two instructed police he met Denisa on a relationship app earlier than visiting her at a lodge the identical evening she was murdered, in accordance with prosecutors.
That they had intercourse, however then she threatened to go to his spouse until he paid her the equal of round $11,450, he instructed police, in accordance with Italian media reviews..
“She was blackmailing me, that’s why I killed her,” Frumuzache was quoted as saying. “Once I instructed her that I used to be a safety guard and that I used to be married, she instructed me that she was in a position to attain my spouse.”
He then strangled Denisa, dismembered her corpse and stuffed her physique in a rubbish bag and put the stays in a suitcase, driving from the lodge to the secluded farmhouse, Corriere Fiorentino reviews.
Resort safety footage exhibits Frumuzache arrive outdoors at 10:50 p.m. on Could 15 with a black bag.
Simply over two hours later at round 1 a.m., he’s proven on digicam leaving the lodge with a white suitcase belonging to Denisa, which he hundreds into his Volkswagen Golf, in accordance with reviews in Italy.
Denisa’s stays have been inside that suitcase, in accordance with prosecutors.
Investigators used a GPS put in in Frumuzache’s automobile by his insurance coverage firm to retrace his actions after Denisa’s disappearance, and tracked down the search to the deserted farmhouse on Wednesday morning, the place they discovered Denisa’s headless physique, together with the white suitcase.
Denisa’s case fascinated Italy in latest weeks, following rumors she might have been kidnapped by legal gangs after leaving Rome and touring to Tuscany final month.
