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Britains Most Evil Killers S02E10
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00:01In 2002 in Bournemouth on the south coast of England,
00:05police were called to the scene of a disturbance
00:08in a residential street.
00:10Two young children were distraught
00:12and being comforted by a neighbor.
00:14When the police entered the house,
00:16they found the mother horrifically murdered.
00:19Her body has been mutilated,
00:21but bizarrely in her hands are cut head hair.
00:26It's cut head hair, but it's not her hair.
00:28It's hair which is alien from that scene.
00:32The murderer had conned his way into his victim's house,
00:36attacked and killed the woman, then mutilated her body.
00:40His name was Danilo Restivo.
00:43Most people, when they've committed a murder,
00:46they want to get as far away from that body as possible,
00:48as quickly as possible.
00:50But this is somebody who enjoys spending time with the body
00:53and mutilating it.
00:57This has a fetishistic, an almost sadistic element
01:03above and beyond the usual simple motives for homicide.
01:07But police discovered that this was not the first time he had killed.
01:12Their investigation revealed Danilo Restivo
01:15to be one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:38On the 12th of November 2002, Bournemouth police had received a 999 call
01:44from a terrified 14-year-old and his 11-year-old sister.
01:49They had returned home from school to find their mother's body mutilated in the bathroom.
01:56The investigating officer was Phil James.
01:59The police were called at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
02:03The initial response would be made by uniformed police officers
02:06as soon as they realised it was a murder.
02:09I received a call and I drove to Bournemouth
02:11and I took command of that murder investigation.
02:16The woman was a local seamstress, 48-year-old Heather Barnett.
02:20Her children had returned home from school and expected to find her.
02:25When they received no response to their arrival,
02:28the children searched the house and found their mother's mutilated body.
02:33When we look at the mutilation of Heather's body,
02:37both of her breasts have been cut off.
02:39She's got some hair in her hand.
02:41There's a glove down by her underwear.
02:44So what's happened here is that this offender
02:48has completely humiliated his victim.
02:51He's taken the very kind of symbols of her femininity,
02:55her breasts, and taken that away.
02:56So this is a very distinct signature.
03:00It's an incredibly unique thing.
03:03The killer was Heather's neighbour, 30-year-old Danilo Restivo.
03:08When police arrived at the scene,
03:10they found Restivo and his girlfriend
03:12comforting his victim's children.
03:15They'd been befriended by the two Italians from across the road
03:21who ended up becoming extremely significant to the inquiry.
03:25Although he would soon become their prime suspect
03:28in this seemingly random killing,
03:31police were unable to prove Restivo was responsible.
03:35It would take another eight years
03:37till Restivo could finally be charged with Heather's murder.
03:41Due to the extreme nature of the killing,
03:44police were determined never to let him out of their sight.
03:48We never left that case.
03:50Even as the years progressed, you worked long, hard days,
03:55and you were always thinking about that case,
03:59you know, about the children, about the horrific scene,
04:03and about that always, the ongoing risk that this man,
04:07who was walking about, driving about Bournemouth,
04:11presented to the public.
04:13By the time Restivo was finally caught and faced trial
04:17for the murder of Heather Barnett,
04:19the police had already uncovered connections
04:21to another murder in Italy.
04:24The sensational case made headlines across the globe.
04:27This was truly an horrendous and distressing murder
04:31that took away a person that was very special
04:35to many, many people.
04:37He was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison.
04:42I remember after that, after he was found guilty later that day,
04:47there wasn't massive celebrations.
04:49It was just, at last, you know, we've done it for the family.
04:56Restivo may have finally faced judge and jury in the UK,
05:00but this killer's story begins in Italy in 1972.
05:05He was born in Sicily, and his family later moved to Potenza
05:09in southern Italy.
05:12Potenza is a small Italian city,
05:14which is quite a way away from all the other cities,
05:18not just geographically, but also culturally.
05:21This is a city where the church is very influential.
05:25His family were amongst the great and good of Potenza,
05:29so he grew up in quite a privileged position.
05:32His family were quite powerful.
05:34His father was the director of the local branch
05:38of the National Library.
05:40He was quite an influential figure within the local community.
05:44If you would say his father's name,
05:46everybody would know who that was.
05:48It was clear from a very young age
05:51that Restivo was different from other children in Potenza.
05:55Well, Restivo, as a child, he had glasses, he was quite podgy.
06:00He's the kind of boy who would have been the target for bullies at school.
06:04He was the kind of boy who would never really fit in with his peers.
06:09But I think in those early days, he got a sense that,
06:12I'm an outsider, I'm not one of this group,
06:16so I'm going to make up my own rules.
06:19He was awkward as well in the way he talked to women,
06:22which is, it's hard for you to try to talk to somebody
06:26when you look awkward and you act awkward.
06:31Age 21, Restivo became obsessed with a young girl.
06:36In 1993, he was a young guy,
06:40and it was clear he had an infatuation for a girl called Elisa Claps.
06:44Elisa Claps was 16, and she had said to friends
06:47that Restivo was becoming a bit of a problem,
06:51that he was chasing after her.
06:54Elisa may have been irritated by Restivo's attention,
06:57but one Sunday she was willing to meet him at the local church.
07:02She's a good, kind person,
07:04and there are many stories of her going out of her way
07:07to help other people in the community.
07:10And I think she's somebody who feels quite sympathetic towards Restivo.
07:14She sees this lad who is an outcast
07:17who's sort of picked on and bullied by the people,
07:19and I think she feels a sense of kind of care towards him.
07:23So when he asks whether she would come and meet him,
07:27she goes along with him because she doesn't, for a million years,
07:31think that his intentions are bad.
07:34On a particular Sunday, she had arranged to meet up with him
07:38outside of the church in Potenza
07:40in order that she could say to him,
07:42look, I don't want a relationship with you,
07:45I don't want to go out with you, and can you leave me alone?
07:48Elisa was seen going to meet Restivo in the church,
07:52but that was the last time she was ever seen alive.
07:56Both Elisa and Restivo went to that church.
08:02Restivo left and returned home, and Elisa was never seen again.
08:07Concerned for Elisa's safety,
08:09her family reported her missing to the police.
08:12There were quite a lot of conspiracy theories
08:14that developed around her disappearance,
08:16and one of them related to a page in her diary which was missing,
08:23and it was thought that the words that were on that page
08:26were in Albanian.
08:27So there was this idea that she'd been kidnapped
08:30by this Albanian criminal gang,
08:32and innocent girl just completely vanishes off the face of the earth.
08:36It's rife for speculation.
08:37The local police were called by the family to investigate her disappearance.
08:44A number of inquiries were made to find her.
08:47She was never found, and she was considered a missing person.
08:53However, there were a number of complications or issues
08:56which the Italian police were not overly concerned about following up.
09:00We know, for example, that sometime after Elisa went missing,
09:05she supposedly sent an email to her family saying,
09:09Hi, I've left the country, I'm not here any longer,
09:13don't worry about me, I'm having a new life,
09:15everything's wonderful, and just forget about me.
09:19A number of inquiries were made in relation to that,
09:22and that email wasn't sent from abroad,
09:25it was sent from an internet cafe in Potenza,
09:27and it was sent at a time when Restivo was in that internet cafe.
09:33During the investigation,
09:35the local police missed some vital clues
09:38that could have quickly led them to Restivo.
09:42He had a history of taking young girls behind a curtain
09:47and up to the first floor in the church.
09:49There was an injury on his hand around about the time of her disappearance,
09:53and none of this was really scrutinized,
09:55none of it was really looked into by the police.
09:59The family did not know it yet,
10:01but 21-year-old Restivo had in fact killed Elisa
10:05and entombed her within the walls of the church.
10:08It would take nearly 17 years for her body to be found.
10:13Restivo now had a taste for killing,
10:15but knowing he was suspected by Elisa's family in Italy,
10:19his next murder would be in the UK.
10:30Danilo Restivo would eventually be convicted
10:34of the murder of 16-year-old Elisa Claps in Italy in 1993.
10:40But it would take nearly 18 years to bring him to justice.
10:44What was known by the people in the small town of Potenza
10:48where he grew up was that as a young man,
10:51Restivo would chase after young girls in unusual ways.
10:57He approaches them, and when they reject him,
11:00he turns on them, essentially, and he calls them,
11:04and he plays the theme tune of his favorite film,
11:06Profondo Rosso, which is quite scary, quite intimidating music.
11:10And this is a really odd thing to be doing,
11:13but what he's trying to do is trying to instill fear in these girls.
11:18He's trying to say, oh, well, you've rejected me,
11:20so I'm now going to play a bit of a game with you.
11:23And I think that really does just tell us
11:26about his underlying psychopathy.
11:28He's somebody who likes playing with people.
11:31Restivo became obsessed with one girl in particular, Elisa Claps,
11:36but when she rejected Restivo's romantic approaches,
11:40he reacted in the most extreme way.
11:43Unbeknownst to her family and the police,
11:46Restivo had in fact killed her and hidden her body in 1993.
11:51At the time, the police considered Elisa a missing person
11:55as her body was not found.
11:57That, along with some legal obstacles,
12:00meant the investigation in Italy was halted.
12:02Rumors were rife that this was because of Restivo's family
12:07and their connections with the police and the authorities.
12:10In Italy, certain positions within a town
12:13are considered high-powered and influential,
12:16and Restivo's father was the chief librarian,
12:19and in Italy, the chief librarian is a significant
12:23and powerful individual.
12:24To Danilo Restivo, it seemed like he'd got away with murder,
12:29but Elisa's family never gave up.
12:32Since Restivo was the last person to have seen her alive,
12:36he was suspected by much of the town
12:38as having something to do with her disappearance.
12:41Being under observation, Restivo was unable to chase women
12:45to fulfill his unusual passions.
12:47In 2002, he turned 30 and decided to begin a new chapter
12:53of his life in Bournemouth in the south of England.
12:56I think when Restivo arrives in the UK,
12:58he is a very dangerous individual
13:00because he's never faced any consequences for his actions.
13:04He's in a country where nobody knows his history,
13:07nobody can join the dots together,
13:08so he really is like a kid in a sweet shop.
13:12He's got every opportunity to continue offending,
13:14and nobody really knows his background.
13:17Restivo met an Italian woman on the internet
13:20and he quickly moved in with her.
13:23They lived on a suburban street in Bournemouth.
13:26She's an older woman, she has a disability,
13:29she's more of a mother figure to him,
13:31and she treats him as if he's a son,
13:34she looks after him, she cooks his meals,
13:36so he's stepping into his well-established role
13:40as this child in a different location.
13:44Restivo's new home was opposite that
13:46of 48-year-old seamstress Heather Barnett.
13:49Just six months after moving in on the 6th of November 2002,
13:54he went to visit Heather.
13:56He claimed he wanted her to do some work for him.
13:59Mr. Restivo had been over and asked
14:03if she would make a set of curtains for him
14:05as a Christmas present for his then-partner.
14:08And you think, well, that's a pretty strange Christmas present
14:12for a man to give a woman.
14:15Restivo had been discussing the work with Heather.
14:18However, Restivo wasn't interested in curtains.
14:21Instead, he identified Heather as his next victim.
14:25On the 12th of November 2002,
14:28he paid his neighbour another visit.
14:33They'd gone through to the back of the property,
14:36which was her room for doing her sewing and seamstress-type work.
14:41And from there, it appears that she tried to make an escape
14:44from the individual.
14:46Things were knocked over.
14:47She'd moved through into the lounge,
14:49where he'd obviously caught hold of her,
14:51and he'd hit her several times with a hammer.
14:54Her skull was fractured,
14:55and she would have been dead in the lounge very shortly afterwards.
15:01From that point, she was dragged through the lounge,
15:05through the hallway, and into a bathroom.
15:09Restivo had brutally murdered Heather in her own home.
15:13He then placed a lock of hair in her hand.
15:17Curiously, it was not Heather's hair.
15:21Restivo's callousness did not end there.
15:25He then mutilated Heather's body.
15:28He cut the breasts off and placed them behind Heather's head.
15:32He also mutilated the rest of the body quite badly.
15:37This maybe would show that his obsession
15:40was not simply the hair,
15:43but possibly the cutting of hair and cutting itself.
15:48To cut someone's skin would possibly have also excited him.
15:55A few hours later, police arrived at the scene.
15:58They were greeted by Restivo and his partner,
16:01who were looking after Heather's two young children.
16:04Well, the children discovered their mother's body,
16:08and not only that, but Restivo was one of the first people on the scene
16:13and appeared to be comforting them.
16:15But this isn't particularly surprising to me.
16:18When you have an offender like Restivo,
16:19he's quite proud of what he's done.
16:22So it's not enough for him to mutilate his victim's body.
16:25He wants to see the impact of his actions
16:28on the people around the victim,
16:30and that is enhancing his enjoyment
16:33and enhancing his sense of power over these people.
16:39Other than Heather's son and daughter,
16:42Restivo and his partner were the only people present at the scene.
16:46Restivo was very keen to point out to the police
16:49that he'd been out all that day
16:51before discovering the distraught children in the street.
16:55We started to look at Mr. Restivo,
16:58but from the very beginning, we were being told
17:01he had a strong alibi that explained where he was all day.
17:04So immediately you think, well, it can't be him.
17:08So you start to look at other areas.
17:10And it wasn't until other issues started to develop
17:14with Mr. Restivo that it was necessary to go back
17:17and look at his alibi and say, how strong is this alibi?
17:23Regardless of this,
17:24the police made Restivo the centre of their investigation.
17:29Because he'd been at the scene, in any case,
17:31we were interested, we wanted his DNA,
17:33so that we could either implicate or eliminate him
17:36from those inquiries.
17:37We started to ask questions about his relationship,
17:40if he knew Heather, what involvement he had with Heather.
17:44It became clear that Restivo had previously met Heather
17:48to discuss making some curtains.
17:50So when he arrived on the doorstep to kill her,
17:54he was welcomed into the house.
17:56Mr. Restivo had spent a great deal of time
18:00considering what he was going to do.
18:03He must have planned that murder in great detail.
18:08It was Restivo's meticulous attention to detail
18:12that police hoped to take advantage of
18:14and use it to connect him to the murder.
18:17Her body has been mutilated,
18:20but bizarrely in her hands are cut head hair.
18:25It's cut head hair, but it's not her hair.
18:27It's hair which is alien from that scene.
18:31So you're trying to understand
18:35why somebody who's going to murder somebody
18:37has brought with them hair to a murder scene.
18:43In Heather's left hand was a lock of her own hair.
18:47In the right, a lock of someone unknown's hair.
18:50This strange obsession with hair would eventually lead
18:54to Restivo's downfall.
18:56Well, many people would describe Restivo as a trichophile.
19:00He's got an obsession with hair.
19:02Paraphilia is a sexual attraction
19:04towards an inanimate object or a non-consenting party.
19:08Because when you cut somebody's hair
19:09and you take a piece of that hair,
19:11you're taking part of them,
19:13and it's making you feel quite powerful.
19:16But this is really odd behaviour.
19:18It's incredibly abnormal behaviour.
19:21When police searched Heather's house,
19:23they found plenty of evidence.
19:25There was a lot of blood about,
19:28and the training shoes worn by the killer
19:31left trails of blood-splattered footprints around the house.
19:38But bizarrely, although they moved around the house,
19:41they never left and went to the front door of the property.
19:46By carrying out forensic tests,
19:49could work out that the killer had moved around the house
19:53to a point in the lounge where there was a chair.
19:57And in our opinion, he had then changed his clothing.
20:02Police, however, were unable to connect Restivo to the killing.
20:07Restivo would be what we describe as forensically aware.
20:10That means they know what sort of evidence they may be leaving.
20:15So he had the foresight to change his clothes.
20:21He had the foresight to change gloves.
20:23He had the foresight to try and get rid of bloodstains using bleach.
20:28He was aware of the sort of things that could be found
20:32that could link him to a crime,
20:34and he was doing what he could to prevent that happening.
20:38He comes extremely well-prepared.
20:41He has a plan, he executes that plan,
20:43and then he leaves the house in fresh clothes
20:47that aren't going to cause concern to any passers-by.
20:51The only thing out of place at the crime scene
20:54was a green towel found near the front door
20:57of Heather Barnett's house.
20:59We considered that the murderer had stopped,
21:02taken off his training shoes.
21:04Bizarrely, there was a chair and there was a green towel on it.
21:08That green towel had blood on it, but we always believed
21:14that that green towel was alien to that house.
21:18Our belief was that that wasn't their towel
21:20and that it had been brought there by the killer.
21:24That towel was a constant main line of inquiry
21:29in order to try and identify the killer by his DNA.
21:34We knew that Heather's blood was on that towel,
21:37but there was a mixed profile in that blood,
21:40so it meant to say there was the profile
21:42of at least two individuals.
21:45Despite their suspicions, police were not able
21:48to extract a DNA connection to Restivo,
21:51and they were unable to bring any charges against him
21:54at this time.
21:56Restivo felt he'd got away with murder again.
22:07In 1993, Danilo Restivo had murdered a young girl in Italy.
22:13Her body had never been found.
22:16Nine years later, he moved to the UK
22:19and killed and mutilated his neighbour,
22:22mother of two, Heather Barnett.
22:29The British police suspected that Restivo
22:32may have had some involvement in 48-year-old Heather's murder,
22:36but were unable to prove it.
22:40Restivo is somebody who's used to getting away with his crimes.
22:43This has been something that he's been doing
22:45for a very long time, both in his native Italy
22:48and in the UK as well.
22:50So this is somebody who feels untouchable.
22:52He's never had to face any consequences for his actions,
22:56so he's got no reason to believe that things are going to change,
22:59so he's just going to carry on regardless.
23:01By the end of 2002, police had identified Danilo Restivo
23:05as the prime suspect.
23:07They knew they were dealing with a dangerous man
23:10and were doing all they could to gather enough evidence
23:12to arrest him.
23:14We shortly came to the conclusion that Danilo Restivo
23:18was the person that killed Heather Barnett.
23:19He went over there during that morning and killed Heather Barnett,
23:23and then he knew that the persons that would find Heather
23:28are her two children, a 14-year-old and an 11-year-old,
23:34and that they would come back and find that scene.
23:37You know, that's beyond anybody's imagination and cruelty to do that.
23:43On arrival at the scene of the crime,
23:46one of the first things Restivo had done
23:48was to supply police with an alibi for the day.
23:51But on closer examination, what Restivo told them did not add up.
23:57He had gone to a place for unemployed people to learn computer skills,
24:01and the signing-in register showed that he'd signed in at a specific time,
24:06but when we looked at it again, the entry had been altered.
24:10It had been written over, so it said one time,
24:13and it also said another time.
24:15So it then indicated that perhaps that alibi wasn't as good as Bruce thought.
24:20Restivo was their only suspect.
24:23When detectives began to uncover his past in Italy,
24:27their suspicions only grew stronger.
24:29It was about six months into that inquiry
24:31when one of the detectives working on the case came into my office and said,
24:37Boss, I need to speak to you.
24:39I've done a lot of research on the Internet,
24:41and we've managed to find details of a girl
24:45who went missing in Potenza in 1993,
24:47and there is a link to Daniello Restivo.
24:52Soon after, we started making inquiries about Elisa's death.
24:57But at this point, Elisa was still considered
25:00just a missing person by Italian police.
25:03It had not reached the stage of a murder inquiry.
25:06In the case of Eliza Claps, to start with,
25:10there wasn't even a body.
25:12Running a murder investigation,
25:13if you can't even prove somebody's dead,
25:16let alone how they died, is clearly far more difficult.
25:20There have been successful prosecutions with no body,
25:23but they're much rarer.
25:25And in the UK, although there was a body,
25:29there was not enough hard evidence to arrest Restivo for murder.
25:32He was allowed to carry on his daily life.
25:36By March 2004, nearly two years after the murder,
25:40police were convinced Restivo was a danger to the community,
25:44so they put him under surveillance.
25:47Then, in May that same year,
25:50investigators got a break in the case.
25:53We followed Restivo for quite a while,
25:57and there was one specific incident
25:59that it still now chills me to think about it.
26:04He went down to an area called Throop,
26:07the edge of Bournemouth on the countryside.
26:10And on the morning in question,
26:11Restivo went down there.
26:13There were about half a dozen ladies on their own,
26:17walking their dogs in this isolated area.
26:19And Restivo buried himself in a bush
26:22and was clearly watching these individuals.
26:26Everywhere he went and the risk that he presented,
26:30we're always concerned,
26:31is today a day where he's going to kill another Heather Barnett?
26:35Is he walking around with a knife in his bag today?
26:40Well, when we look at Restivo's behaviour
26:42when he's under surveillance,
26:43this is the height of summer.
26:45He's walking around with gloves on,
26:46he's got his hood up,
26:48he's got waterproof trousers on,
26:50he's filmed changing his clothes,
26:52and the police see that he's observing women
26:55from a distance as well.
26:56He's very clearly out hunting for women.
27:01Afraid that he was getting ready to kill again,
27:04the police moved in.
27:06I arranged for two uniform officers to go down,
27:09check him out.
27:11Mr Restivo was wearing two sets of clothing.
27:14He had one set of clothing
27:15and then he had another set on top
27:17and a nylon waterproof jacket.
27:20So, very similar to Heather's murder
27:22where he's got...
27:24He took two sets of clothing with him
27:26and changed into one.
27:27He's down there in the same.
27:29The police stopped Restivo
27:31and searched his bag.
27:34In his rucksack, he had gloves,
27:37he had a filleting knife,
27:39he had other material in there,
27:41and it was just horrific.
27:44And so, he was brought in,
27:46he was arrested,
27:47but he explained everything.
27:48It's perfectly easy.
27:50You know, I'm wearing two sets of clothing
27:52because I was exercising
27:54and I want to lose some weight
27:56and it helps me perspire.
27:58And I can't remember the explanation for the knife,
28:01but it was, oh, I've been somewhere
28:03and I just happened to still have it in my bag.
28:05I've just bought it or something.
28:06And again, extremely concerning,
28:10but as far as the Crown Prosecution Service were concerned,
28:14it wasn't that final piece of the jigsaw
28:17and it didn't prove Restivo had killed Heather Barnett.
28:21Again, Restivo could not be charged with murder.
28:25Police needed more evidence
28:27to pin him to the killing of Heather Barnett.
28:31I think Restivo became aware of the idea
28:35that the police were interested in him
28:37and that he could have been connected to the murder,
28:40but he had an explanation for every part of his bizarre behavior.
28:45He felt that he was in control of that information
28:48and he actually did envision himself carrying on
28:51and committing further crimes.
28:54The police changed tack.
28:56They appealed to the public for more information.
28:58This time they focused on the hair belonging to an unknown person
29:03found in Heather's right hand.
29:05Appeals were broadcast in the UK
29:07and in Restivo's hometown of Potenza and across Italy.
29:12And then you suddenly get a call and they say,
29:15Hi, I'm such and such from Potenza.
29:19Daniel Restivo cut my hair once.
29:21I was sat in a cinema and he was sat in the row behind
29:24and he took some of my head hair and cut it and took it away.
29:27And somebody else was saying,
29:29Oh yeah, that happened to me.
29:30Daniel Restivo was well known for cutting women's hair.
29:33And when we came back and we started to ask the same question,
29:36when people in Bournemouth had their hair cut,
29:40women started to come forward to say,
29:42Yeah, in fact, I was on one of the Bournemouth yellow buses
29:46and I had some hair cut and I looked round
29:49and there was a guy sat behind me.
29:51Or I went to the hairdressers once and she said,
29:55You've got a big chunk of hair missing from the back of your hair.
29:58When has that happened?
30:00Restivo actually developed a paraphilia for hair.
30:04This may have been some originating situation
30:08where he felt, you know, sexually excited, et cetera,
30:11over contact with hair.
30:13His victims had their hair cut, often from behind.
30:17He wasn't in the social world.
30:20He was in a very focused, obsessive world.
30:23In June 2004, the police questioned Restivo again.
30:28This time they asked him specifically
30:30about his haircutting activities.
30:33The investigators were hoping to connect Restivo
30:36to the hair found in Heather's hand
30:39at the murder scene two years earlier.
30:42We put Daniella Restivo on an identification parade
30:46and in two instances, those women picked Daniella Restivo out
30:51as the man who had sat behind them on a local bus,
30:55cut their hair and then got off the bus.
30:57So we always knew he had a hair fetish.
31:01We knew that he'd brought alien head hair into the murder scene
31:07and left it in Heather's hand.
31:10Restivo said that when he held these women's hair in his hand,
31:14he said everything is visible and that he could see everything.
31:18It's making him realise, I can take a piece of these women
31:22and I can possess them.
31:24He's got a real kind of a grandiose sense of himself,
31:28a real kind of elevated sense of his own power here.
31:32But all this evidence was circumstantial
31:35and was still not enough to convince the courts
31:38that Restivo could be charged with Heather's murder.
31:41This man is truly evil.
31:45He prepared some time in advance to kill this lovely single lady
31:53who's bringing up two lovely children.
31:56He killed her in the most horrific manner, mutilating her body,
32:01and knowing the most evil part of him is he knew
32:06that the people that would find their mother mutilated
32:11in the worst possible way was her two young children.
32:16Are you telling me that somebody who could do that is not evil?
32:21Restivo was released yet again without charge.
32:25To prove him guilty,
32:26the police needed to connect Restivo to the crime scene.
32:31Their hopes rested on the green towel with blood splatters
32:34that was found in Heather's hallway the day she was murdered.
32:38But to make the case against Restivo,
32:41they had a major hurdle to overcome.
32:44The forensic technology and the forensic advances weren't there,
32:49but we kept going back to that green towel and saying,
32:52how can we develop or separate out that mixed profile?
32:57And it did take a number of years before forensic science advanced,
33:02and we were able to do that.
33:05Police would finally connect Restivo directly to Heather's murder,
33:10but it would take the discovery of a body in Italy
33:14to bring this murderer to justice.
33:26In 2002, Danilo Restivo had murdered and mutilated his neighbour in Bournemouth.
33:33And it was suspected he had also killed a girl from the same small town
33:38in his home country of Italy.
33:40But in that case, her body had never been found.
33:43By 2008, it looked like Restivo had got away with both murders.
33:52What lies behind Restivo's motivation to kill and mutilate women
33:56is a sense of power.
33:58So he does so in the most extreme way,
34:01in killing them and mutilating them and using their hair
34:05as something that he has that's part of them.
34:08Police in Dorset had already found a connection between Restivo
34:13and several cases of women having had their hair cut off
34:17by a stranger in public.
34:18But it was a murder in Bournemouth in November of 2002
34:23that was their primary focus.
34:25In 2008, police re-examined a bloodstained green towel
34:31that they had found in the house of murder victim,
34:34seamstress Heather Barnett.
34:36Critically, the towel had two different types of DNA on it.
34:42It took some years for DNA analysis to progress to the stage
34:46where the material on the green towel,
34:49which we said Restivo had left at Heather Barnett's address,
34:53could be analysed and produce a profile
34:55which could be put forward as evidence.
34:59Then in 2008, we find that magic solution
35:04and it's that final bit of that jigsaw
35:06where scientists say,
35:08look, we can now separate out those two bits of DNA,
35:13we can now separate heathers out
35:16and we can identify whose DNA that is.
35:19And that DNA, that separated out from that towel,
35:24belongs to Daniello Restivo.
35:27Finally, the investigators felt they had enough evidence
35:30to charge Restivo with the murder of Heather Barnett.
35:34To make certain, they also needed to tie Restivo
35:37to the murder of 16-year-old Elisa Claps back in Italy in 1993.
35:43But with no body found, all they had were their suspicions.
35:48Elisa was still classed as a missing person.
35:52Then, in March of 2010,
35:54a remarkable discovery was made
35:56that would seal the case and Restivo's fate.
36:00At the stage when Restivo was first charged,
36:04Elisa Claps' body had not in fact been found,
36:06and so we proceeded purely on the UK evidence.
36:09However, on the 17th of March, 2010,
36:14Elisa's body was discovered in the loft in the church in Potenza,
36:18where it, in fact, it had been since she disappeared
36:20on the 12th of September, 1993.
36:24When Elisa's body was found in the church
36:27that Daniello and Elisa had met outside of and had been in,
36:33it was decided that myself and another officer
36:35would immediately fly over to Italy
36:38to try and work with the Italian police
36:41because we wanted to look at the similarities
36:45between the murder scene of Elisa and our murder scene,
36:49because, as far as we were concerned,
36:52Daniello and Restivo had murdered both individuals.
36:55We were allowed to go down to Salerno,
36:58which is the main city near Potenza.
37:01We were allowed to see the videos
37:03and we were allowed to speak to some of the scientists,
37:06and lo and behold, there were things like hair in Elisa's hand,
37:11the same as there were in Heather's case,
37:14and it started to make a bit more sense.
37:18So, Restivo's signature is quite evident in both cases.
37:22So, both of the women have hair in their hands.
37:26Both of them have their trousers pulled down.
37:29So, this is quite a distinct thing in itself.
37:32Here is a case where the offender has spent time
37:35with both of these victims,
37:37but the crucial difference for me
37:39is that whilst Elisa's body was hidden,
37:42Heather's body was displayed.
37:44He got to the point in his offending here
37:46where he's saying, hey, look at me.
37:48So, this is somebody who's evolved over time,
37:50and it's really, really concerning.
37:53This is somebody who's not going to stop
37:55unless they're caught.
37:57The UK police could not charge Restivo
38:00in relation to the murder of Elisa Claps
38:02as the crime was committed in Italy
38:05and so out of their territory,
38:07but connecting Restivo to the murder of Elisa
38:11solidified their case in regard to the murder of Heather Barnett.
38:16Even though he'd never been tried in Italy for that crime,
38:19we had used all the evidence in relation to Elisa Claps' murder
38:23in order to prove him guilty of Heather Barnett's murder.
38:27Finally, in May 2011, Danilo Restivo went to court,
38:33charged with the murder of Heather Barnett.
38:36We've arrested Danilo Restivo on a number of occasions,
38:39and we've always also lived with the concern
38:42that he's also so dangerous he's likely to kill again.
38:46And eventually, the case is solved,
38:48and we've got that magic solution,
38:49and we've got that final piece of the jigsaw.
38:53It had been a long battle,
38:55but in the end, the murder Restivo had committed in 1993,
38:58and thought he had got away with was to be the deciding factor
39:03when he faced judge and jury.
39:05The police were having quite a hard time of it,
39:09getting enough evidence together to be able to meet that threshold,
39:13to be able to secure a conviction,
39:16but then when Elisa's body was discovered,
39:19you've got these two women thousands of miles and 17 years apart,
39:23but they're connected by one thing, and that's Restivo.
39:27He had always thought he was cleverer than everybody else,
39:30but now that didn't matter.
39:32He wasn't cleverer than everybody else.
39:34He wasn't cleverer than us.
39:36We had beaten him, and we'd solved the case.
39:39And because the evidence was so powerful and overwhelming,
39:43it did make him look like an idiot in terms of some of his responses.
39:47Whereas before, he could show that bluster and he could say,
39:50it's not me.
39:51Well, when he said that now, it was meaningless
39:53because the evidence was overwhelming and it did prove it was him.
39:58The jury unanimously found Restivo guilty of Heather Barnett's murder.
40:03Of course, they could not return a verdict in relation to Elisa Claps,
40:06because Restivo is an Italian subject
40:08and therefore could not be charged with her murder.
40:11The jury retired and returned the verdict on the same day,
40:16and thereafter Restivo was sentenced.
40:19There is, of course, satisfaction that justice has been done,
40:23but I think really an overwhelming feeling of sadness
40:26that two people had died wholly unnecessarily
40:29to satisfy his lust for killing.
40:33Heather Barnett was a local woman in Bournemouth.
40:37She was a mother to two children,
40:39and that's one of the things that I find quite annoying
40:42about cases like Restivo.
40:44When you've got such a grotesque and such a unique murderer,
40:48there's a tendency to forget the victims,
40:50and they become known as the victims of Restivo.
40:54These two women, Elisa and Heather,
40:57were individuals in their own right.
40:59They had lives, they had families, they had futures,
41:02and that was callously taken away by Restivo.
41:06In June 2011, Restivo was given a whole life sentence
41:12for the murder of Heather Barnett.
41:14He later appealed and was given a life sentence
41:17and ordered to serve a minimum of 40 years.
41:20Meanwhile, in Italy in November 2011,
41:24a court in Salerno found Danilo Restivo, in his absence,
41:28guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Elisa Claps in 1993.
41:34With someone like Restivo, with that very specific MO,
41:40with two cases so far apart and so similar,
41:46there has to be more.
41:49We need to look very carefully into the past of Danilo Restivo,
41:57because he must have struck elsewhere.
42:01Since his imprisonment, Restivo's name has been linked with other murders,
42:06but no charges have been brought.
42:10However, the horrific murders of both Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett
42:15have shown that Danilo Restivo is one of Britain's most evil killers.
42:22communities throughout the Italy and their lives
42:45to every other person throughout the world.
42:45For society,
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