Rome – After brutally killing Ilaria Sula and hiding her body, Mark Antony Samson wasted no time: he went to eat a piadina with a friend of the victim, discussing the “problems he was having with the girlfriend”.
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This is what emerges from theprecautionary order of the investigating judge of Rome, who describes a cold and calculating man, capable of pretending to be sad while he was fabricating lies.
Self-control and clarity after murder
Despite having repeatedly declared that “not being able to live without Ilaria”, Samson has demonstrated a disconcerting normality from the first moments after the crime. “He manages to get back into the routine right away”, the judge emphasizes.
With Ilaria's friend she talked about “trivial questions” – like the girl's boyfriend's birthday or the croissants bought for a “ghostly” acquaintance – while, without any scruples, He kept on send messages to the victim's father, pretending that they belonged to his still living daughter.
The investigating judge: "The accusatory system is granite-like"
The magistrate highlights how the suspect, during the interrogation, showed more difficulty remembering Ilaria's chats with other guys that not to reconstruct the moments of the murder, which occurred on the morning of 26 March. “His suffering – the order states – is more about having lost 'a part of himself' and the fear that his friends would never see 'the Mark of always' again, rather than the remorse for having taken the life of a 22-year-old girl”.
“I was ready to fight to get her back”
Samson, I confess, he said he had had with Ilaria a relationship that lasted two years, which began in the workplace in 2023. A bond “with ups and downs”, until the January crisis, when the girl asked him to show her your college grades – a request that he experienced as a trauma, having always been obsessed withperformance anxiety. “He gave me an ultimatum: if I didn't show them to him, he would leave me.”he said.
But the breaking point comes in March, when Ilaria confides in him that she has signed up for a dating platform. “I was shocked, I told her that it was useless to use that app to understand if she loved me”, he said. In the following days, the girl showed herself increasingly colder, until Samson, unable to accept the end of the relationship, he went to the extreme act.
He is accused of aggravated murder and concealment of a corpse
The PMs, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini, they challenge Samson voluntary homicide aggravated by emotional ties e the concealment of a corpse. Also investigated Mother, who would have helped his son to clean the apartment after the crime. Yesterday, at the police station, the woman has admitted his responsibilities.
Meanwhile, the city is wondering about the ruthless lucidity of a boy who, after killing, managed to sit at the table as if nothing had happened, while Ilaria's family lived in the nightmare of those fake messages, the last, atrocious illusion of a life already shattered.
Article published on 8 April 2025 - 14:02
The article describes a very complex and dramatic situation. Samson's reaction seems really disturbing to me, how can a person behave in that way after a murder? I wonder what could lead to such actions.
It is sad to see how Ilaria's life was cut short like this. Samson's behavior is hard to understand, it is as if he had no empathy for the pain of others. Let's hope that justice takes its course.