The married dad who was arrested for killing a 30-year-old escort allegedly murdered another sex worker last year, it has emerged.
The suspect allegedly strangled and decapitated Maria Denisa Adas in a rental room after paid sex on the night of 15 May.
He is said to have placed her head in a bin bag and her body in a suitcase.
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He is suspected of driving the remains to a secluded spot and – after trying to burn the head – dumped them in the early hours of the next day.
Vasile Frumuzache reportedly confessed to the chilling crime while being questioned on Wednesday (4 Jun) – the day Maria was found.
It has now emerged that during a second interrogation, Frumuzache stunned police by reportedly admitting to another murder in 2024.
Ana Maria Andrei – who, like Adas, worked as an escort – was reported missing by her cousin on 1 August last year.
Frumuzache, 32, led police to the remote field in Montecatini Terme, Italy, where he had hidden both bodies.
He claims he killed Adas because she had threatened to expose their affair to his wife unless he paid her €10,000 (£8,434).
Andrei – unlike Adas – was stabbed to death.
Frumuzache claims she “had to be punished” after refusing to perform a paid sex act, as reported by Need To Know.
When officers searched his home in nearby Monsummano Terme on Wednesday, they found her BMW.
It had been repainted a different colour and its number plates had been changed.
Prior to Frumuzache’s confession, Andrei’s fate had been completely unknown.
Prosecutors in Prato have now launched a wider probe into missing women in and around every place where he has lived.
Authorities are not ruling out more victims – likely women in prostitution.
Frumuzache – like Adas and Andrei – is from Romania but moved to Italy aged 14.
The father-of-two, who has no prior convictions, lived with his mother in Trapani Province before relocating to Tuscany in 2022.
He worked for a private security firm that provided him with a firearm for professional use.
His wife is expected to be questioned in the coming days.
The remains believed to be Andrei’s will be DNA-tested and compared with relatives, including a cousin living in Pistoia.
Frumuzache has been remanded into custody.
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