It can take a long time for someone to live their life to the fullest. In contrast, it only takes a hammer a few seconds to end that life.
Carol Maltesi was an OnlyFans star from Italy. She was found dead by a hiker in a long mountainous road.
Maltesi was only 26 years old, before she was gruesomely murdered and dismembered to pieces, and dumped inside 15 plastic bags in Borno, a province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy.
When the police investigated, it was found that the Italian-Dutch model, who worked under the stage name Charlotte Angie, was killed months prior, and was frozen before her remains were ditched.
In a forensic report, it was said that the woman's face had been badly burned, and her body parts were badly disfigured. This made the corpse impossible to recognize.
However, investigators were able to identify her through her distinct tattoos, some of which were left intact.
The investigators were able to match her tattoos with posts on OnlyFans and porn scenes.
Maltesi, a mother of one son, had 11 tattoos, and her remains had eight of them visible.
One of her tattoos located on her ankle, written with the words “step by step.” Another was at her collarbone, which reads “wanderlust,” and at her back, a tattoo reads “elegance is the…”
Her remains also had an inverted “V” on her inner thigh, and another two inverted “V’s” on her other inner thigh.
When investigating the case, the police said that she had not been active on social media since January.
Her friends said that they thought Maltesi was abroad.
But when she failed to turn up at a pole-dancing club earlier in March 2022, which was something she wouldn't miss, people started to wonder.
It was about a week later, that she was reported missing.
The first person who reported her missing, was Andrea Tortelli, a local journalist who received a tip about Maltesi.
And after her acquaintances shared her images of a dead woman's body, and said that the woman had a young son, and was reportedly living with a relative, Tortelli began to wonder.
"I thought to myself 'what are the odds that all this coincides – the physical description, and that this woman has eight of the same tattoos?'" Tortelli said.
"But I didn’t want to go to the police until I was sure."
At the time, Tortelli tried to reach Maltesi through the messaging app WhatsApp, but surprisingly, she received a reply.
"A number of people have told me about that girl,” the reply reads.
"Fortunately I am fine."
The police who went to work, started questioning witnesses and gathering evidences.
Particularly, the police eyed on Davide Fontana, who happens to live nearby, and was Maltesi's former partner.
Prosecutor Lorena Ghibaudo said that the 43-year-old banker initially refused to have anything to do with the woman's death.
But the police found inconsistencies in his story.
Furthermore, the police who checked traffic cameras near the place where the body was found, saw that Fontana drove Maltesi's car in the area, right before he walked into a local police station offering information.
"This man, friend and neighbor of the victim presented himself to the Carabinieri to provide information about the missing woman, offering circumstances that immediately proved to be contradicted by the investigators," she said.
After questioning witnesses and gathering evidences, the police tracked his movements and searched his home.
There, the police found a large freezer, and the same plastic bags used to dispose the body.
Fortunately for the police, Fontana didn't clean his act properly, because investigators found DNA evidence that made it clear that he was the murderer.
Fontana didn't confess at first, and repeatedly denied any involvement in Maltesi’s death.
But when he was shown the evidences, he finally admitted that he killed Maltesi.
He admitted killing Maltesi in a cold-blooded murder, and chopped her to 15 different pieces.
He allegedly told investigators that he "accidentally" killed Maltesi, after an erotic sex game that went wrong.
He said that they were making a sex tape.
Fontana tied Maltesi to a dance pole on the first floor of her apartment, and then put her head inside a bag to block her vision.
Then, he brought a hammer and started hitting her with it, but not at all hard.
But later, the two argued. This was when he hit her hard.
Fontana kept hitting her head with the hammer, until she died.
"I'm not sure why. I don't know what happened to me. I think she was already dead but not knowing what else to do I cut her throat with a kitchen knife," he said.
"I spent half an hour looking at her and then I went home."
He said that he murdered her on January 10 or 11 in the morning.
The sex tape was recorded on his iPhone. But the second one, the one that recorded the murder, was deleted.
After Maltesi died because of her wound, Fontana began to realize that he couldn't dispose of her body that easy.
Because of this, he put Maltesi's remain inside a freezer at his home.
Then, in a twisted alibi aimed to make it seem that she was still alive, Fontana pretended to be Maltesi.
Among others, Fontana paid for Maltesi's rent, and responded to her messages through her phone.
Fontana even allegedly used Maltesi's phone to convince her mother that she was still alive.
In a message, Fontana wrote to her mother, saying that she had "left porn" but was too busy to explain why.
Fontana also tried deceiving Maltesi's concerned fans, saying that: "Yes, the tattoos look like mine but I’m ok."
"I thought the only person who would reply pretending to be a dead woman is the person who killed her. So basically there is an assassin on the loose," Tortelli said.
"I decided to take all my information to the Carabinieri," referring to the national paramilitary police.
As soon as Fontana found out that Maltesi was reported missing, he had no choice but to get rid of Maltesi's body.
But again, since hiding a dead body is difficult, Fontana decided to gruesomely dismembered Maltesi to several pieces using a hatchet.
Maltesi, chopped to smaller pieces, fifteen to be exact, was then placed into several plastic bags.
Fontana also admitted to purposely burned her face and disfigured her corpse with a hammer so it wouldn't be recognized before dumping it.
Fontana then took the plastic bags, as if they were trash, and put them inside Maltesi's Fiat 500.
He then threw them off a mountain road, some two hours outside Milan, officials reportedly said.
Carol Maltesi, better known as Charlotte Angie, was an OnlyFans content creator, as well as a former porn star.
Before she was murdered, Maltesi was in a relationship with Fontana.
The two met in a hotel in Milan in October 2020.
At the time, Fontana, a banker with a passion for photography, was called in a photo session to take pictures of her in her underwear. Fontana who was married, fell for Maltesi, and decided to leave his wife to date her.
Maltesi was last seen alive close to her Rescaldina home near Milan in January.
Her dismembered body was discovered by a passerby, who happened to spot a human hand with long glittered, manicured nails protruding out of a plastic bag.
Her body parts were found thawing under the sun after being stored for two months inside a freezer Fontana bought for that purpose from Amazon "to accommodate the remains" of the hardcore porn star.
Fontana is also a food blogger by passion.
He also managed a second Instagram account besides his own, where he only published photos of young women in revealing clothes and provocative poses, all with their stage names. The last one of Maltesi, was published on March 13, a week before he killed her.
After admitting to the murder, Fontana was arrested on charges of aggravated first-degree homicide, dismemberment, as well as concealing a corpse.