He allegedly loaded Ilaria Sula's body into a car and took it away in broad daylight. An operation that went unnoticed even by her neighbors , who at 2:00 pm on March 26 were in the building on via Homs, in the very busy Africano neighborhood in Rome.

This is what Mark Antony Samson , the perpetrator of the femicide of Ilaria Sula , has reconstructed. But investigators have doubts about the version offered by the 23-year-old accused of aggravated voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse. A confession, especially regarding the day and time of the attack, that does not seem to convince investigators. Samson claims to have attacked Ilaria at 11 in the morning, after reading a message on her cell phone from another boy. A rapid action, two lethal stab wounds to the neck while the girl was turned away. For the coroner, the haemorrhagic shock was violent , Ilaria died in a few minutes . In the version of the suspect, who claims to have done it all by himself, everything happened in just under three hours. Samson, after the crime, put Ilaria's body in a suitcase, leaving it temporarily near the front door, and then devoted himself to cleaning her room, using rags and alcohol that he had at home. And again: the young man claims to have thrown the knife and a carpet in a dumpster near his home along with everything he had used to erase the blood traces. Then, still alone, he loaded the suitcase into the car and left to reach the area of Poli, about 40 kilometers from the capital, and throw it into a ravine.

A frenetic activity for which – investigators believe – it is Speaking to investigators, in the hours following his arrest, Samson stated that in those hours at home «his mother was also present». A detail he never returned to, availing himself of the right to remain silent when pressed on the role played by his parents in that dramatic moment.