A WOMAN who vanished in Italy last month has been found brutally decapitated - after weeks of national concern over her disappearance.

The body of Denisa Maria Adas Paun, 30, was discovered on Wednesday in a suitcase among brambles, her head found separately miles away in a field.

Adas was a Romanian national who lived in Italy's capital of Rome and worked as an escort, according to the prosecutor's office.

She disappeared on May 15 from the Tuscan town of Prato, where she is said to have travelled for work.

Vasile Frumuzache, a Romanian-born 32-year-old security guard, reportedly confessed to the horrific crime.

Frumuzache was charged with murder and concealment of a corpse.

The married father-of-two claimed that Adas threatened to tell his wife of their relationship unless he g

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