Robert Lupu, the man who fatally shot Teodora in a residential complex near the Capital, used the job of taxi driver to identify more potential victims.
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The man talks to girls and told them about his video chat studios. He also had a portrait of future employees, and safe victims became the girls from disadvantaged environments, several sources for Antena 3 said.
Robert Lupu's name appears in numerous DIICOT and Police investigations. The man's neighbors describe him as a violent man and always put on the scandal. Investigators have searched in his home and found important evidence, and in the next period, computer searches will begin.
According to the authorities, the individual was convicted in April 2025, by a court in Milan, to 4 months imprisonment with the suspension of the execution of the punishment for attempting or the preparation of the crime of theft.
Teodora Marcu, the young woman killed in a residential neighborhood in the north of the capital, had a protection against it in 2021, when she lived in Bacău. Between February-June 2021, there was an order of protection against him, issued by the Bacău Court, not finding violations, says sources close to the investigation.
Subsequently, the young woman moved from Bacău county and did not ask the court a new protection order after the expiration of the initial order. IPJ Bacău was not notified about a possible conflict state between the two.
The criminal, investigated in two files of pimping
Years ago, Teodora Marcu had been sexually exploited by Robert Lupu in a video chat studio in Onești. At that time, he was 49 years old and met Teodora Mark when she was 14 years old. Teodora decided to put an end to the relationship with him, but the man began to harass and threaten to death.
The criminal was investigated in two files of pimping. The first file was opened in 2012, when a person, whose identity cannot be made public, went to the police and said that he is aware that Robert Lupu, controls several beautiful women who practice prostitution for him.
Several women were heard, but also alleged customers. However, none of the young people acknowledged that they are prostitute, and customers, in their turn, refused to recognize the fact that they had sexual intercourse. Thus, the file was classified.
And in the course of 2019, the police registered a new complaint that Robert Lupu is pimp. This time the deed could not be proved.
