Senegalese held over Florence murder
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Italian prosecutors say “decisive” DNA analysis of a condom and cigarette butt led them to arrest a Senegalese man in the death of an American woman who suffered two deadly fractures to her skull before being strangled in her Florence apartment.
The naked body of Ashley Olsen, 35, of Summer Haven, Florida, was discovered on Saturday by her boyfriend.
Florence chief prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo told a news conference yesterday that investigators had detained Cheik Tidiane Diaw, a 27-year-old who arrived recently in Italy from Senegal, based on witness testimony, DNA analysis and because he had Olsen’s cellphone.
He said Diaw had offered “substantially admissive” testimony in response to the accusations during a preliminary interrogation that lasted until 4am yesterday. Diaw has not yet been charged.
Citing witness testimony and street cameras, Creazzo said Olsen and Diaw met for the first time at the Montecarla disco in Florence early on Friday and went together to Olsen’s apartment in the Tuscan city’s historic center.
He said they had consensual sex. Both had drunk alcohol and possibly taken drugs over the course of the night.
He said the autopsy determined that Olsen had suffered two fractures to her skull that were so violent they alone would have killed her. She was subsequently strangled.
Police detained Diaw after DNA analysis came back from a used condom and cigarette butt found in Olsen’s toilet, as well as biological samples taken from under her fingernails that belonged to Diaw, Creazzo said.
Creazzo said Diaw had arrived in Italy illegally a few months ago to join brothers who had been there for some time.
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