Autopsy results show torture and
murder victim Luca Varani did not die of a stab wound to the
heart, investigators said Thursday.
Law student Manuel Foffo, 29, and fellow student Marco
Prato, who confessed to torturing 23-year-old Varani then
finishing him off with a hammer and a knife accused one another
of inflicting the fatal blow to the heart under questioning on
Wednesday.
The incident took place during a two-day cocaine-fueled
frenzy at the weekend.
Foffo has also told prosecutors he and Prato cut Varani's
vocal chords so he couldn't scream, and that he and Prato spent
up to 1,600 euros on 26 grams of cocaine.
The pair also tried to clean up the crime scene,
prosecutors said.
Varani's body was found naked and with a knife stuck in the
heart in the bedroom of a tenth-storey apartment in the
Collatino area of eastern Rome on Saturday evening. However, he
is believed to have died the previous morning.
Carabinieri police arrived at the scene only after Foffo,
the owner of the apartment, told his father what had happened.
Meanwhile Prato was taken to hospital after trying to
commit suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol
in a hotel in Rome's Piazza Bologna neighborhood. He underwent
stomach pumping and is now being held together with Foffo in
Rome's Regina Coeli prison.
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