"I am heartbroken by the tragedy I have brought about. I don't want to avoid my obligations. I want to make amends for killing my ex-girlfriend." These are the words that mark a watershed moment in the inquiry into Giulia Cecchettin's death. In the Verona prison, before judge Benedetta Vitolo, her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta pronounces them, confessing to having murdered her, as he had previously disclosed to German traffic police officers when he was apprehended with his arms raised on a highway between November 18th and November 19th, shortly before he was to surrender after a thousand-kilometer escape. But this time, the almost 22-year-old's "very tried" statements carry much more weight: because those made to the Germans had no value in the Italian proceedings, whereas these are the foundation on which the Venice Public Prosecutor's Office's accusation will be built in light of the trial, and because Turetta accepts, also from a human standpoint, his flaws, expressing a desire to "pay" for them. A collaborative technique that, if validated, will almost surely have an impact on avoiding life imprisonment by balancing aggravating and mitigating circumstances.