"I helped him clean the house, to erase the traces of all that blood." The mother of Mark Antony Samson, the 23-year-old who stabbed Ilaria Sula to death, confessed, in an interrogation lasting over three hours at the police station, to having played an active role in the phases following the crime.
For her, Nors Man Lapaz, the charge of complicity in the concealment of the body was therefore formalized .
In the order, the investigating judge states that Samson "acted coldly and insensitively" : the young woman was attacked "in a brutal manner" by a person "she trusted".
The mother was therefore at home at the time of the attack, when the boy killed the student with whom he had had a brief romantic relationship with at least three stabs.
The woman appeared before the investigators as a person informed of the facts, but her position immediately changed in light of her statements. A true confession about what happened in the apartment on via Homs, in the African quarter of the Capital. The investigators have had serious suspicions about her role since the very beginning of the investigation.
In addition to the factual data, the woman's phone cells place her in the area of the house, logic also led investigators to believe that Samson had not done everything alone as claimed by the boy during the interrogation to validate the arrest.
The boy explained that he essentially did everything in just over three hours: he attacked Ilaria around 11:00 in the morning after reading a message from another boy on her cell phone. He stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife, causing a violent haemorrhagic shock. At that point the plan to cover up the tracks was put into action and at this point the student's mother intervened. It is not clear whether the woman also helped her son put Ilaria's body in the suitcase, after wrapping it in a bag and placing it in a trolley. Mark allegedly dragged the luggage with the 22-year-old's body into the car around 14:00 and then reached the Poli area where he threw the trolley.
The father's position , which appears more nuanced as he was not present at home at the time indicated for the crime, remains under the scrutiny of the investigators .
"The boy's parents are devastated by the pain, incredulous, still in shock, scared and asking for sincere forgiveness for everything that happened ," said Paolo Foti, the lawyer representing the murderer's mother, as he left the police station.