Vasile Frumuzache, accused of the murders of two prostitutes in Prato and Montecatini, was attacked in prison by a relative of the woman who disappeared and was killed in 2024, Ana Maria Andrei , a crime he confessed to yesterday under questioning by investigators. This was learned from the Prato prosecutor's office. The attack was carried out with boiling oil thrown on his face .
Meanwhile, the investigation continues, the suspicion is that we are dealing with a potential serial killer of prostitutes and we are also investigating other women who disappeared in recent years.
Vasile Frumuzache, a 32-year-old Romanian security guard with no criminal record, yesterday first admitted to killing Denisa, the 30-year-old escort who disappeared from Prato on the night between May 15 and 16. Then, when questioned a second time, he confessed to also being the perpetrator of the murder of another woman, Ana Maria Andrei , whose relatives reported her disappearance on August 1, 2024. And the man also had the remains of this victim found, as had happened with Denisa. He had always hidden them in the same impervious and isolated area where he then threw those of the escort among the brambles, on the hill of Montecatini Terme, in the Panteraie forest.
Denisa strangled her, then decapitated her body - as she explained to investigators - because she was blackmailing him by threatening to reveal the betrayal to his wife unless he gave her 10,000 euros in exchange for silence. Ana Maria instead stabbed her to death, according to her because she had to be punished for refusing paid sexual service .
The two investigations are linked by specific clues. From the examination of the telephone cells to try to reconstruct Denisa's disappearance from the residence in Prato, and in particular from the analysis of telephone traffic on May 15, the cell phone number of Ana Maria Andrei emerged, a woman no one had heard from for months. Furthermore, another decisive clue to induce him to confess, Frumuzache kept the BMW that belonged to Ana Maria at his home in Monsummano Terme in the province of Pistoia . He had changed the color of the car, repainting it from red to black, and the license plate. But from a series of checks it was discovered with surprise that it belonged to a woman who had been missing for nine months, Ana Maria Andrei in fact.
In both cases, the killer acted with brutality and cruelty, as well as carrying out a whole series of actions to make the bodies of the two women disappear and prevent them from being found.
And now the Prato prosecutor's office has activated a whole series of investigations on missing women in all the cities where the 32-year-old lived: the investigators are currently unable to exclude that there could be other possible victims, other women killed, presumably in the world of prostitution or marginalization .
From what has been reconstructed, Vasile Frumuzache has been in Italy since he was 14 years old: as a boy he lived with his mother in the province of Trapani and then moved to Tuscany in 2022. Married and father of two children, he works for a security and vigilante services company , which allowed him to have a gun for work reasons.
(Online Union)
