Horrific twist in missing woman case that gripped Italy as victim is found decapitated in her suitcase and 'killer' reveals 'shocking reason why he did it'
A 30-year-old woman who disappeared in Italy last month has been found decapitated inside a suitcase.
The headless body of Denisa Maria Adas Paun was found on Wednesday in Montecani hidden among thick vegetation near an abandoned farmhouse.
Adas, a Romanian national who worked as an escort, disappeared on May 15 from the Tuscan town of Prato, where she had scheduled to see some clients.
Following the discovery of her body, cops arrested Romanian-born Vasile Frumuzache, 32, who admitted to killing Adas.
The security guard's arrest came after investigators found that on the night of her disappearance, Adas had spoken on the phone with a Romanian man.
CCTV footage inspected by police showed a man arriving at Ada's hotel room at 10.50pm with a black bag.
He stayed for two hours and fifteen minutes, before cameras showed him leaving the property with a white suitcase belonging to Adas.
Upon his arrest Frumuzach told investigators: 'She was blackmailing me, that's why I killed her.'
The security guard, who is a father-of-two, told cops he met Adas on a dating app before visiting her at her hotel, where they had sex.
Frumuzache claims that after he told Adas he was married, she threatened to contact his wife and asked him for 10,000 euros 'in exchange for silence'.
He then strangled her and decapitated her with a knife, put her body in a rubbish bag and stuffed her remains in a suitcase, Italian news outlet Corriere Fiorentino reports.
The next day, he set fire to her head on fire in a garden using gasoline.
His chilling confession puts an end to a missing person's case that gripped the nation.
Adas disappearance last month caused alarm after it was revealed that she had told friends and family that she was 'afraid of being killed' just hours before she vanished.
Some had speculated that Adas had voluntarily wanted to go away, but her loved ones were sure that something more sinister had happened.
Their suspicions came after she travelled more than 185 miles from Rome to Prato.
Adas had last spoken to her mother on the eve of her disappearance from her hotel room.
She did not know anyone in Prato and had only travelled there for work.
All seemed well, as she told her mother: 'Hi Mum, I'm fine, see you at home on Saturday.'
But her mother never heard from Adas again.
Her two mobile phones ahd been switched off, while her red Fiat Cinqueccento was left in a car park close to the accommodation she had booked for the night.
Investigators originally believed that she has disappeared on her own accord, after her phones, purse, car keys, at least two suitcases and a blanket she never travelled without were found to be missing.
But stranger details lingered, including that the room was discovered to be unlocked and inserted from the inside.
Adas is said to have told her friends just days before her disappearance: 'If they find me, they'll kill me'.
Police launched an investigation into her possible kidnapping.
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