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The Sun
5 days ago
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- The Sun
Decapitated body of missing escort is found and her security guard client is arrested – as he gives harrowing confession
A WOMAN who vanished in Italy last month has been found brutally decapitated - after weeks of national concern over her disappearance. The body of Denisa Maria Adas Paun, 30, was discovered on Wednesday in a suitcase among brambles, her head found separately miles away in a field. 5 5 5 Adas was a Romanian national who lived in Italy's capital of Rome and worked as an escort, according to the prosecutor's office. She disappeared on May 15 from the Tuscan town of Prato, where she is said to have travelled for work. Vasile Frumuzache, a Romanian-born 32-year-old security guard, reportedly confessed to the horrific crime. Frumuzache was charged with murder and concealment of a corpse. The married father-of-two claimed to police that Adas threatened to tell his wife of their relationship unless he gave her €10,000 (£8,417). 'That's why I killed her,' he allegedly told police. Frumuzache strangled her, then used a knife to decapitate her before placing the body in a rubbish bag and stuffing it into a suitcase, Italian news outlet Corriere Fiorentino reports. The next day, he reportedly set fire to her head in a garden using gasoline. Adas gave her mother a call on May 15 during which she "seemed calm". "Hi Mum, I'm fine, see you at home on Saturday," she said. 5 Body found in search for missing woman who vanished 15 years ago – as suspect, 39, arrested over 'murder' But shortly after the call, both of Adas' phones were switched off - a detail her family called deeply suspicious. Her mother soon went to police in Rome to report her missing. At first, investigators suspected she had left voluntarily - her phones, purse, car keys, two suitcases and the blanket she never travelled without were all missing. Her loved ones, however, were convinced something sinister had happened. A few days before her disappearance, Adas told a friend: 'I'm afraid I'm going to be killed,' local media report. Detectives say Frumuzache entered the property where Adas was staying at 10.50pm on May 15, carrying a holdall. Shortly after 1am, he was seen leaving with the suitcase that she had brought with her from her home in Rome. It is believed her body was inside the suitcase. Detectives traced his journey to the spot where the body was found using GPS data from a tracker fitted to his car for insurance purposes. Adas' body was discovered near an abandoned farmhouse in a rural part of Montecatini Terme, near Florence - around a half-hour drive from Prato. Her head was only found after Frumuzache disclosed its location during police questioning. Adas is believed to have been suffocated, but a post-mortem is expected to confirm the exact cause of death.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
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- Daily Mail
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.
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
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- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE France is on the brink of full-scale civil war. I've lived here for 25 years and the locals have had enough of the violence caused by hordes of destructive youths. The state has lost control - and I fear what's coming next: JONATHAN MILLER
As I stood in the queue at the fishmonger on the town square close to my home in the South of France yesterday, he was cutting the head off a sea bream with deft strokes of his razor-sharp knife. 'You French have always been rather good at decapitation,' I said, gesturing towards a spot outside the post office, where the town guillotine had stood in an earlier era. Nobody laughed. 'They should bring the guillotine back,' said the fishmonger. 'We need it more than ever.' He wasn't joking and other customers nodded vigorously.
The Independent
15-05-2025
- The Independent
Jury in trial of man accused of two suitcase murders discharged
The jury in the trial of a man accused of decapitating a couple before taking some of their remains in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge has been discharged. Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in the flat the two shared in Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, west London. The prosecution opened its case at the Old Bailey at the end of last month but on Thursday Mr Justice Bennathan discharged the jury. He said there had been problems identifying the accurate times of searches made by Mosquera on his laptop, which had been used as evidence in the trial. The judge told jurors that the trial 'simply cannot continue'. 'We simply have to resolve this before we have a fair trial,' he added. Mr Justice Bennathan thanked jurors for the service and said he was sorry for where the trial had 'ended up'. Mosquera has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso by way of loss of self-control, but denies both charges of murder. A provisional retrial date has been fixed for June, where a new jury will be selected.
Daily Mail
15-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Trial collapses of porn star accused of dumping couple's dismembered bodies on Clifton Suspension Bridge after murdering man during sex and beating his lover to death with hammer
The jury in the trial of a man accused of decapitating a couple before dumping some of their remains in suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge has been discharged. Colombian national Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, and is said to have left body parts at the iconic bridge in Bristol. Mosquera was allegedly filmed dancing and singing in jubilation within seconds of slitting the throat of Mr Alfonso during a sex game caught on camera on July 8, 2024. Hours earlier, the 35-year-old allegedly battered Mr Alfonso's partner Mr Longworth to death with a hammer in order to steal from the London couple, whom he had met online. He is accused of spending the next two days dismembering the bodies with a saw at the couple's flat in Shepherd's Bush before putting their remains in suitcases to throw over the Clifton Suspension Bridge 115 miles away in Bristol. The prosecution opened its case at the Old Bailey at the end of last month but on Thursday Mr Justice Bennathan discharged the jury. He said there had been problems identifying the accurate times of searches made by Mosquera on his laptop, which had been used as evidence in the trial. The judge told jurors that the trial 'simply cannot continue'. 'We simply have to resolve this before we have a fair trial,' he added. Mr Justice Bennathan told the jury: 'Ladies and gentlemen I regret to tell you that for reasons I will explain we simply cannot continue with this trial so I'm about to abandon this trial and discharge you from being on this jury and the trial will have to happen again. 'Because you have been here for three weeks and exposed to some dramatic evidence, because of that I thought you were due a proper explanation as to what happened. 'The defendant's laptop was analysed and some of the activity and searches on that laptop were put in evidence. 'At some stage it was realised that the CCTV of outside that flats meant that at least one of the timings couldn't be right because no one was in the flat at that time. 'People are trying to resolve that. Experts are being brought in and as we speak are reassembling the laptop and conducting experiments on it. 'They are trying to work out what the real timings were on the laptop. 'I'm afraid it's been a great waste of your time, my time and the Central Criminal Court's valuable court space.' Mr Justice Bennathan thanked jurors for the service and said he was sorry for where the trial had 'ended up'. Mosquera has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso by way of loss of self-control, but denies both charges of murder. A provisional retrial date has been fixed for June 30 at Woolwich Crown Court, where a new jury will be selected. The date will be confirmed at at a hearing at the Old Bailey on June 13.
