Overview
- Police identified 47-year-old Samuele Donadello as the suspect and placed him under investigation for voluntary homicide after he presented himself at the Padua police headquarters with his lawyer.
- Investigators say Donadello confessed during a lengthy interrogation, and they tied him to the victim using recent calls on Marco Cossi’s phone saved under the contact name “SamuTenca.”
- Detectives seized a knife that Donadello provided, collected blood-stained clothing, and reported blood traces in his car, which is now impounded for tests.
- Officers found Cossi’s Volkswagen Golf in Padua with the doors open and the key still in the dashboard, according to police reports.
- Prosecutor Martina Varagnolo asked a judge to order pretrial custody while the forensic work and autopsy proceed and as investigators review phones and bank records for a possible business dispute motive tied to a delayed food-truck launch.