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Like a movie scene! The mystery of the crime in Italy. How the lover killed the Albanian woman and put her in a suitcase
2025-04-03 13:37:57 / AKTUALITET
A tragic event shocked all of Italy the day before, when Ilaria Sula, a 22-year-old student of Albanian origin, who had been reported missing for several days, was found dead inside a suitcase dumped in a forest area outside the city of Rome.
Based on a complaint filed by friends with whom Ilaria shared the apartment she lived in Rome, the 22-year-old left home on the evening of March 25 without telling anyone, something that, according to evidence, she had done on other occasions.
After not receiving any more messages from the Albanian student, her friends reported her to the police, who immediately began searching, and on Wednesday morning they found Ilaria's body.
Initial suspicions led police to her boyfriend, Mark Antony Samson, a 23-year-old student originally from the Philippines.
After questioning, he confessed to the crime, saying that Ilaria had gone to his house after leaving the apartment where she was staying with her friends. She had told him that she wanted to end their relationship and in a fit of rage, he had stabbed her several times, killing her.
After that, he put her body in a suitcase and drove his car to a forest area outside Rome and dumped her there. The macabre discovery was made by several people who frequent the forest area of Pola, who notified the police.
"I stabbed her and then put her body inside a suitcase. I took my car and drove towards the Pol area, where I threw the suitcase on a rock. I repented. I apologize," Samson said during his testimony.
The parents and friends, who had been unable to contact the girl, immediately reported the case to law enforcement.
Tabs and cell phones that show a person's location when they make a call were among the elements that trapped the student's ex-boyfriend.
Through their analysis, investigators were able to discover that in the days after the girl's disappearance, the 23-year-old Filipino had continued to use her phone and post from Ilaria's social media profiles to clear up suspicions.
The victim's mother, Gëzime Sula, who rushed to Rome with her husband and son after hearing the news of the 22-year-old's body being found, stated:
"I immediately realized that something was wrong. We were communicating via video call and she wasn't sending messages. Then I spoke to her friends who lived with her and together with my husband we decided to immediately report her disappearance. The investigation immediately led to the boy with whom Ilaria had a relationship in the past, but we know little about him."
"We can't explain it. Why did he do it? We don't understand why he did it, only he knows. I spoke to my sister the last time two weeks ago, because she came to visit us in Terni. She was calm and didn't tell me about the problems. Then only messages. I knew her boyfriend, they were together for a year but they broke up ," says Leon, Ilaria's brother.
It wasn't long before the 22-year-old's father, Flamur Sula, reacted, saying that when he first arrived at the police station, the girl's boyfriend immediately went to hug her because he felt sad.
"The last time we heard from Ilarian was on Tuesday and she told us she would be home on Saturday. She was living with friends in Rome, where she was attending university. That was the last call, then we got messages from her phone. It was like she was my daughter, she wrote:
'Ciao, dad, don't worry. I'm fine. I have a boy and a girl. I'll be back in Terni in a month'. It said 'don't worry, I'm fine'. This raised our suspicions. If it had really been my daughter, she would have called me.
"On Saturday we went to file a missing person report. Then, on Sunday, at the police station we met Mark Samson, my daughter's boyfriend. We didn't know they had broken up. He told us he was very sorry, that he was worried about her disappearance. He seemed calm, he even hugged me."
The reaction also came from Sapienza University, where Ilaria studied, calling this a cruel and brutal act of femicide.
On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of students gathered at Sapienza to pay their last respects to Ilaria, with tears flowing from those who knew her and the clanking of keys, a sign against femicide in Italy.
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