The disappearance of a 30-year-old woman in Italy might not have caused as much alarm had she not chillingly confessed she was 'afraid of being killed' just hours before she vanished.
Some speculate she may have voluntarily wanted to go away, but friends and family of Denisa Maria Adas are growing increasingly concerned something more sinister has happened.
Their suspicions - backed up by disturbing circumstances - are certainly not unfounded days after she travelled more than 185 miles from Rome to Prato, Tuscany.
Romanian-born Adas, who works as a professional escort, last spoke to her mother on Thursday evening, at around 11.30pm from her room in Via Ferrucci.
She did not know anyone in Prato and had only arrived in the city for work.
