Unsolved murder's suspect's cell phone gets unlocked a year later
Cracking a Cold Case 🔎🕵️♂️
After a prolonged mystery, the gruesome murder in the quaint Italian town of Villafranca Padovana is on the cusp of being unraveled, thanks to an incriminating selfie video recorded by the assumed culprit. Multiple Italian media outlets reported that the father of the victim, following numerous fruitless attempts, finally managed to unlock his son's smartphone[1]. Notably, the phone concealed a video the suspect had apparently taken post-crime.
This chilling tale first made headlines in the spring of 2024, when a 32-year-old man was found brutally stabbed in the town of roughly 10,000 inhabitants, just north of Padua. Initial suspicion point toward a two-year elder acquaintance who was then apprehended. Despite extended efforts by the police to extract data from the victim's iPhone, they failed[2].
Fortune's flip
The other suspect, who initially escaped the general-news radar, is now under scrutiny due to a selfie video discovered on a smartphone, concealed evidence that might potentially solve the cold case in Villafranca Padovana. Recently, the advancements in technology, such as advanced forensic software, have aided in the exhumation of long-buried data from both the victim's and suspect's devices, shedding new light on the crime-and-justice scene.
