A bereaved father managed to unlock his son’s phone over a year after his murder and found a mocking video filmed by his killer.
Michael Boschetto woke up at around 4:30 am on 27 April last year when Giacomo Friso began banging on his front door in a rage.
He went downstairs and the two men began arguing, as reported by Need To Know.
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Giacomo, 34, eventually left, but he returned at around 6am, this time armed with a knife.
Michael, 32, was waiting outside his house for his girlfriend to arrive when Giacomo turned up.
When she arrived a short while later, she found Michael dead, with stab wounds to his face and chest.
Giacomo and Michael lived on the same street in Villafranca Padovana, north-west of Padua, Italy.
They had known each other since childhood but had fallen out many times.
Detectives believe Giacomo had no clear motive for the killing.
He was known in the community for his erratic behaviour and he had recently been released from rehab.
In the days before the killing, he had been out of sorts and wandering the streets carrying a knife.
After allegedly stabbing Michael four times, he took his phone from his pocket.
In the months that followed, digital forensics experts made countless attempts to unlock the device, but in vain.
The phone was eventually returned to Michael’s father, Federico.
Federico was desperate to recover his son’s photos, so he had a go at unlocking the device himself.
He told local media: “My son’s smartphone, which had been seized from Friso, was only returned to me after many months, with the explanation that they couldn’t extract any data from it.
“Later, his girlfriend helped me unlock it – but I saw her go pale. When she turned the phone towards me, I understood why.
“On Michael’s phone, there was a video of Friso filming himself as he walked into his house, dancing and making a victory sign.
“The face of that man, who had just been arrested for my son’s death, was on his phone, wearing a mocking smile.
“Those 30 seconds showed Giacomo Friso almost pleased with having killed my son, making a gesture that seemed to say, ‘I did it, I killed him.’”
Giacomo, in the wake of his arrest, had claimed self-defence, but the new evidence appears to contradict this account.
Federico said: “During the video, there were details that didn’t match the story I’d been told.
“According to him, he’d just fought with my son and had been beaten too – but he didn’t even have a scratch on his face.”
Although the investigation is officially closed, it is likely this new evidence will be added to the prosecution’s file.
The trial is scheduled to take place on 11 September.
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