Overview

• A new homeowner discovered a human skull buried beneath concrete slabs in the garden of Alfonso Porpora’s former residence in Sontheim an der Brenz, Germany.
• Officials are conducting DNA and genetic analyses to confirm the remains as those of 20-year-old Mustafa Sahin.
• Sahin was strangled and decapitated by Porpora, his 61-year-old father-in-law, on February 13, 2008, according to Porpora’s confession.
• Porpora, serving a life sentence in Germany for two unrelated murders, had never revealed the head’s location despite admitting to disposing of Sahin’s body in Italy.
• Italian and German authorities collaborated closely after German police shared Porpora’s statements to finally identify the victim and recover his missing remains.