Bodybuilding-obsessed boy, 17, killed woman, 42, after luring her on date as he ‘wanted to know what murder felt like’
A TEEN boy obsessed with bodybuilding has brutally murdered a woman after luring her on a date.
The teenager, reportedly a fan of mixed martial (MMA), confessed to killing Maria Campai, 42, and said it was his “desire to see what it feels like to kill.”
Maria was found dead inside the garden of an abandoned house in Viadana, northeast of Parma, Italy.
Her body showed signs of strangulation and blows to the face and head.
Cops believe Maria and the teenager had sex before, but a row broke out after she refused to comply with his requests.
They suspect he then knocked her out with several dumbbell blows to the face before strangling her.
Traces of blood were found in his family’s garage, which the teenager had turned into his personal gym.
Italian media have since dubbed it the “garage of horrors”.
Cops believe the suspect killed her there before dragging her body to the spot where it was found.
Maria is said to have met the suspect on an online dating platform.
She turned up to their first meeting with a friend and went with the teenager to the garage after the friend left.
On 19 September, she told her loved ones she is going for a job interview, but never got back home.
Authorities launched a search operation the next day after her sister filed a missing persons report.
Hours of CCTV footage and interviews with several witnesses led cops to the teen suspect.
He was arrested a week later and reportedly told the police where the body was hidden.
The teen boy’s browsing history revealed he searched for “which parts of the face to hit to inflict the most damage” and “how to neutralise an opponent using MMA techniques”.
He even searched “how to strangle a person with bare hands”.
After allegedly killing Maria, the teenager went about his usual routine, including going to the technical institute he attends.
He is now being held at a young offender institution in Milan on suspicion of murder with intent and of concealment of a corpse.
A police investigation is ongoing.