Ernesto Picchioni, detto Il mostro di Nerola o Il mostro della Salaria (Ascrea, 3 maggio 1906 – Porto Azzurro, 9 settembre 1967), è stato un assassino seriale italiano, responsabile dai 6 ai 16 omicidi, tutti commessi a Nerola.
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00:14Thank you all
00:34It was a holiday
00:40That failure seemed like a minor thing
00:45But he had ended up in the wrong place
00:52In front of the wrong person
01:28The wrong person
01:36May 3, 1947
01:40It's a heavy day
01:42Very heavy
01:43All of Italy is in shock
01:45Why the Portella massacre?
01:48From Reginestra in Sicily
01:49It was a very heavy thing
01:51Why don't they kill each other like this?
01:5411 people who are
01:55Celebrating May Day
01:57Labor Day
01:58Two minutes of gunfire
02:00A man was leading the band
02:03The white raincoat and binoculars
02:04Later they understood that it was Giuliano
02:06On the Paveletti ridge
02:08The places where the shell casings were found
02:15Captain Ragusa, who at the time commanded the Piana Carabinieri, arranged his men in probable ambush positions.
02:22There were 11 murderers.
02:24Behind them the escape path towards Palermo
02:27Nine killed, more than one hundred wounded
02:29They fell in the places taught by the crosses
02:32From the graves that relatives dug almost with their hands
02:35And today the mothers came back here
02:38They have already spoken in Viterbo
02:40But here they can invoke the witnesses from underground
02:44With their lips as if their children were still children
02:48They translate what they said
02:50No oath required, mother of Sicily
02:52The whole truth is on the tombstone
02:57The Portella delle Ginestre massacre sparks a wave of indignation across the country.
03:03The CGL calls for a general strike
03:06From Florence, to Turin, to Rome it's all a procession
03:11Hundreds and hundreds of workers march through the streets in silence in protest
03:23On May 3, 1947 instead
03:26Alessandro Daddi from Rome
03:28He doesn't take to the streets like the others
03:32Alessandro Daddi spends the morning at his home
03:35In Via Emanuele Filiberto
03:37Then, in the afternoon, he goes out
03:40It's nice outside
03:41The Roman spring has exploded
03:43And with her the desire to go out with the puppy
03:46The puppy is the poor dad of the scooter
03:50It's basically a 48cc scooter.
03:54Which is applied to a bicycle and makes it squirt so to speak
03:57Around 40-45 miles per hour
03:59And so owning a scooter which cost a lot at that time
04:04It was a great privilege and allowed for short-term travel.
04:10Few can afford a puppy at that time
04:14Alessandro Daddi can
04:15He is employed at the Ministry of Defense
04:17He earns well and has no one to support.
04:20Alessandro Daddi is a Roman employee
04:23Who is going to visit his mother
04:25Who lives near Rieti in Contigliano
04:28He goes on board the puppy
04:30And it's not difficult to get to go 70 km with a puppy
04:34Unfortunately, however, Alessandro Daddi will never arrive at his mother's house
04:38Why it will disappear at km 47 of the Via Salaria
04:41Alessandro Daddi's family immediately reported his disappearance
04:46The Carabinieri led by Marshal Evaristo Acquistucci
04:50The investigation begins
04:52They discover that Alessandro Daddi was last seen on the Salaria
04:57At km 47
04:59A bad omen
05:02The 47 in the Neapolitan grimace is the dead man who speaks
05:07But omen aside, why did Alessandro Daddi disappear?
05:11And why exactly there?
05:13What could possibly be there at that point of the ancient consular road?
05:16What brought pilgrims to Rome?
05:26First of all at km 47 of the Salaria there is a beautiful town
05:31Just look up and there is the Orsini Castle
05:34Nerola symbol
05:35Ancient medieval village perched on a mountain of oak trees
05:39A beautiful place because it is covered with trees
05:43Particularly dominated by this castle
05:46Which truly induces the traveler to take a break
05:52Marshal Acquistucci cannot understand where Daddi could have disappeared to.
05:57However, he understood something.
06:00Nerola was a city that was already somewhat scary in itself.
06:04It was scary because arriving there and seeing it from afar dominated by this castle
06:08Quite imposing, this Orsini castle etc.
06:11The place already gave a somewhat dark impression.
06:15Strange things actually happen in that picture-postcard place.
06:19Farmers have been reporting an increase in livestock thefts for some time now.
06:25Nerola which is the classic place where you can sleep with the doors open
06:30Suddenly it's not like that anymore
06:32Sheep and cows stolen from pasture and ended up in who knows who's cooking pots
06:37Bellies are empty and poverty is a national fact
06:47From the beginning of the war to 1945 the cost of living increased 23 times.
06:53With wages having grown less than half
06:56The rare money in circulation ends up in food
07:02It was an uncomfortable situation
07:04The farmers worked the land
07:06They raised cattle
07:08They heated themselves with wood from the forests
07:11They ate meat once a month.
07:13The new De Gasperi government is trying to stem the situation
07:18The amount of family allowances is increasing
07:20Prices are being lowered
07:28Milan, an almost Christmassy animation stops in the streets
07:32Everyone flocks to see the incredible
07:34It's like when the thermometer starts to drop
07:37During a life-threatening illness
07:39The eggs have dropped to 30
07:42What a treat!
07:43We are moving towards normalization
07:44Favored by the introduction on the market
07:46Of basic necessities
07:49Rome, Field of Flowers
07:50It may even be that the consumer argues with the stallholder
07:54Without having to go and die killed
07:56It's a battle from which one emerges unscathed.
07:58Maybe with a package under your arm
08:00Until yesterday we were talking about a black market
08:02Today we start talking about the grey market
08:04They are announced in the north and in the south
08:06Decreases also in the clothing sector
08:08Especially when it comes to fabrics, wool and shoes
08:11The decline will not stop
08:16But they are drops in the ocean
08:18Nothing is thrown away
08:19But that nothing is always little
08:22So many choose the shortest route
08:25The theft
08:26Animal ones are among the most widespread
08:30But everything really disappears
08:33Clothes, shoes, everyday objects
08:35Especially bicycles
08:37Which represent a little treasure
08:39And in all of Italy they are the most sought-after prey
08:42From thieves and crafty people
08:49Who has more imagination today than bicycle thieves?
08:53We show you their latest invention
08:55While you are working
08:57You receive a phone call
08:58A stranger tells you
09:01Who just arrived from outside
09:02And who has been tasked with delivering a package to you
09:04From a mutual friend
09:07Thanks, I'll send to collect it
09:08You say
09:09No, no, I'm leaving again soon
09:11The voice answers
09:12You need to take it back immediately.
09:14Send someone with the bicycle
09:17You are eager to receive the package
09:20Try immediately
09:23Your delivery boy
09:24He goes to the indicated address
09:30He's about to enter
09:31But the doorman's voice stops him
09:33It is forbidden to bring bicycles
09:34Poggiola here, I'll look after it
09:41Except that the goalkeeper is fake
09:44And he himself made the phone call
09:49But in Nero the situation is more serious.
09:52It's not just bicycles that are disappearing
09:54But also cyclists
09:56Marshal Aquistucci continues to investigate
09:58On the disappearance of the Roman Alessandro Daddi
10:00And he discovers increasingly pitiful facts
10:11Salaria, kilometer 47
10:13Maybe it really is a cursed place
10:17But you also have to calculate
10:19That in the mountain areas
10:20The small villages
10:21They are particularly suitable
10:22To these situations of credulity
10:25Or popular belief
10:26In a place where all in all
10:28The witches, the viceries
10:29In this sense
10:30They have always had a great effect
10:32And then the salary
10:34It has a leading role
10:35Why at kilometer 47
10:36Right there
10:37The facts happened
10:39An absolutely disturbing kilometer
10:41Another brutal one-time murder
10:42It had worn out
10:43Right at kilometer 47
10:46In 1900
10:48Right there
10:49A man had been killed
10:50Antonio Rubino
10:5147 years old at the time of the murder
10:54And then the cabal
10:55She had gotten a little wild
10:57Why the perpetrator of the murder
10:58He was 47 years old himself.
11:00And so this numerical recurrence
11:0447 is the number of the dead
11:06He even put forward the hypothesis
11:10To eliminate kilometer 47
11:11Of the Via Salaria
11:12From the city topography
11:17Even dogs are disappearing in droves.
11:20Dogs and livestock
11:21Clothes and bicycles
11:23Now also Alessandro Daddi
11:25On board the puppy
11:27It can't just be a curse
11:29The one at kilometer 47 of the Salaria
11:32There must be something else going on.
11:36Or someone else
11:38In a small town like Nerola
11:40Everyone is chatting
11:41They murmur, they wink
11:45For example, there are many who do not look favorably upon
11:47A farmer who moved to Nerola a few years ago
11:50This man's name is Ernesto Picchioni
11:54Picchioni was a robust man
11:59Pig-eyed individual
12:01From the cavernous voice
12:03With a forehead perpetually obscured by a broad-brimmed hat
12:08They call it ugly face
12:10Why does he always walk around with a big hat pulled down over his forehead?
12:14And it doesn't look good
12:17Very ugly, horrible
12:19With two very large and evil black eyes
12:21Proof of the scientific validity of the Combrusian theory
12:33Ernesto Picchioni was born in Ascrea
12:35A small village in the province of Rieti
12:38Where he left with his wife Filomena Lucarelli
12:41He is 34 years old and has four children
12:43Angel of 14
12:46Carolina of 8
12:48Valeria of 10
12:49And Gabriella, 4 years old
12:51Picchioni came to Nerola to work the land
12:55He lives in one of the farmhouses downstream
12:58On the Salaria
12:59At kilometer 47
13:01Like many other farmers
13:02It is not actually very accepted by the community
13:06Because he is experienced as a foreigner
13:08They say that Picchioni is a dodger
13:10And above all, exploit a farm
13:12Who has occupied illegally
13:14A very widespread practice in the immediate post-war period
13:24Here they are, the invaders
13:25They go out like all the farmers in the world
13:28When they leave for work
13:29For three months, 70 cooperatives in the Roman and Viterbo countryside
13:33They waited for a response to 300 grant applications
13:36Still nothing
13:37And they occupied these lands with spades and signs
13:41The stake to mark the field is missing
13:43Let's plant the flag
13:45This was like no man's land
13:47The invaders take it away from the nettles and the brushwood
13:51Someone called
13:52Here you can already plow
13:53And the winger came running
13:55There's no time to waste
13:56Someone asked if there had been any accidents during the invasion.
14:00But what accidents?
14:01A farmer answered
14:02We make peace, not war.
14:06Picchioni is one of those who love the word peace
14:08And he doesn't know what that means
14:10So much so that the field where he now lives
14:13I occupied it by throwing stones at the legitimate assignee
14:17Besides, the violence of the woodpeckers is a well-known fact in the country.
14:20Everyone calls him a quick shooter
14:22Because he has a habit of taking out his pistols and rifle
14:27And take justice into your own hands
14:28And so when the cows disappeared
14:33When the chickens disappeared
14:34When work tools disappeared
14:36It wasn't very easy to go to him
14:38And give him an account of these disappearances
14:42Of course, Picchioni was not the only one in those years to use the rifle
14:46Without too many compliments
14:48In the so-called wartime
14:50Crimes are definitely on the rise
14:53They are increasing, there is a sort of disinhibition among people
14:58A self-management due to the need to survive
15:02A reduction in living conditions for everyone
15:08And above all, also a large circulation of weapons
15:13In those very difficult times
15:15There are few people who don't keep a gun in their drawer.
15:18Possession of a weapon
15:21It is in itself chyminogenic
15:23Meaning what
15:26Accelera
15:26Or produces
15:28The crime itself
15:30As the weapon becomes a temptation
15:34For illegal possession of weapons
15:36And for the old story
15:37Stones thrown at the head of the owner of the house
15:39Picchioni even spent a few nights in the barracks
15:42Yet Picchioni has always succeeded
15:44To be released from prison very quickly
15:47Why?
15:53Ernesto Picchioni was a staunch communist militant
15:57Picchioni's first release from prison took place
16:00Thanks to the intervention, so it is said
16:02Of a group of partisans
16:04This is Ernesto Picchioni
16:06He's certainly not a nice character.
16:08Marshal Aquistucci concludes
16:10Italy is full of figures like this in the post-war period.
16:13Troublemakers who confuse the political ideal
16:16With summary justice
16:18Who use commitment and struggle
16:19As a tool for personal affirmation
16:22But from here to involving Picchioni
16:25In the disappearance of Alessandro Daddi
16:26Of stray dogs and livestock thefts
16:29It's a long way off
16:29The investigation lasted for a few months
16:32On the disappearance of Alessandro Daddi
16:34He's groping in the dark
16:36The investigation is unlocked by some testimonies
16:40Who report having seen a poor farmer
16:43On a bicycle with the puppy
16:46And no one could figure out where he got it.
16:49Because among other things Picchioni was also famous for his economic position
16:55Not particularly prosperous
16:57And so 2 plus 2 equals 4
16:59The marshal investigates because the starting point is that
17:05The puppy on his bicycle
17:08It was a clue that could not be overlooked.
17:11Because the only thing that was known about Daddi
17:14It was precisely that he had used a puppy
17:17To leave Rome
17:18And to get to the Via Salaria
17:24There is only one explanation
17:26Picchioni stole that motorized bicycle from Alessandro Daddi
17:29That bicycle is the proof that Acquistucci was waiting for
17:34Owning the puppy in itself is not proof
17:38Certainly a strong clue
17:40Picchioni is overwhelmed by questions
17:43And he says no I have it because the communist comrades of Monte Rotondo
17:48They wanted to make my travel easier
17:52But Acquistucci continues anyway
17:54He feels it, he thinks it, he knows it
17:57Ernesto Picchioni is guilty
17:59The marshal then decides to play dirty
18:02Using strong methods
18:04Because he has something in his hand
18:05Something very, very important
18:10One October evening he shows up with two men
18:14At the house at kilometer 47
18:15Ernesto Picchioni is coming back completely drunk
18:19From a cousin's wedding singing at the top of her lungs
18:22But as soon as he sees the police he doesn't sing anymore
18:25What's up?
18:27Picchioni hisses with a broken voice
18:28There is that you have to come with us
18:31Acquistucci answers him
18:34Picchioni is taken away
18:35Like a beast hunted by hunters
18:39There is no evidence against him.
18:41Just a little clue that can't prove his guilt
18:52Rome, October 30, 1947
18:55The man brought before Judge Mario Castaldi
18:59It looks like the hunter from Little Red Riding Hood
19:01A hat pulled down over a fat face
19:04All dressed in black
19:05Heavy corduroy jacket
19:07Riding breeches hunting boots
19:11Ernesto Picchioni is not the hunter of fairy tales
19:14But a farmer who tries to defend himself as best he can from terrible accusations
19:19He denies everything
19:20The murder of Dardi, the thefts
19:23He claims he didn't kill anyone.
19:25And they put him in the middle
19:28In Nerola everyone hated him
19:30He wasn't from the place
19:31But above all he was a communist
19:33And this didn't sit well with many.
19:36It is a period of strong oppositions
19:39Between Communists and Christian Democrats
19:41He is politically aligned with one side
19:43He's a communist and therefore from another side
19:46Italians are seen in a negative light
19:50They threw it at me, Mr. Judge.
19:52They put me in the middle
19:53Even the police can't see me
19:56Picchioni justifies himself
20:00I think the fact that he was a communist
20:04It implied that it was some good
20:07In short
20:07And then for the carabiniere
20:11This was certainly an important fact.
20:14It was a clue
20:15A clue as to who else
20:16Yes, the Carabinieri
20:18What evidence do they have in hand after all?
20:20Just a nice bike
20:22And local gossip
20:24What if the Picchioni case was a miscarriage of justice?
20:27If it were yet another persecution
20:30At the expense of yet another communist
20:31And if Quistucci had gotten caught
20:34From the rush to arrest someone
20:41May 3, 1947
20:43Via Salaria
20:45Alessandro Daddi
20:47A Roman employee
20:48It disappears at kilometer 47
20:50With his motorized bicycle
20:52The Carabinieri of Nerola
20:55They arrested a farmer for murder
20:57Ernesto Picchioni
20:58Known in the area for being a communist militant
21:02There is no evidence against him.
21:04But just a little hint
21:06He was seen on a similar bicycle
21:08To that of the missing person
21:11Why are the Carabinieri so safe?
21:13Was Daddi killed?
21:15And why should he have killed him?
21:17The communist peasant himself?
21:19Picchioni doesn't know it
21:20But the marshal has something in his hand
21:22To prove his guilt
21:24We need to take a little step back
21:27On the day of Picchioni's arrest
21:29Faced with the first suspicions
21:31The marshal had understood
21:32That he had to play dirty
21:34If Picchioni is hiding something
21:36There is only one person who can know
21:39His wife
21:47The Picchioni family lives in misery
21:52You would say ugly, dirty and bad
21:54But also very scared
21:56Marshal Aquistucci waits
21:59Let Picchioni go away with the puppy
22:01To go to my cousin's wedding
22:03On his return from which he would later be arrested
22:06At that point Aquistucci knocks on the door of the Picchioni farmhouse
22:10At kilometer 47 of the Salaria
22:12Filomena opens the door for him
22:13Ernesto's wife
22:15She is a 34 year old woman
22:17At the registry office
22:19Because then he looks much older than 50
22:23Pale
22:24Covered in rags and with her children huddled around her
22:27The eldest is Angelo
22:3014 years old
22:31But he looks 9-10
22:33As if poverty had arrested its development
22:38Not even time for a good morning
22:40And the policeman attacks the poor girl
22:43Tell us it was your husband
22:45Tell us that you were the ones who made this body disappear
22:47Tell us because otherwise if you don't tell us
22:50We'll arrest you too
22:51We'll arrest your grandmother too
22:53We arrest your children too
22:56Filomena is about to faint
22:58But just when the situation seems to be worsening
23:01A scream changes everything
23:03Angelo, the eldest son
23:04She cries out in tears to her mother
23:06Mom, they found out
23:08They knew it
23:09The other girls also start crying
23:12While Filomena repeats like a sexton
23:14Now he's going to kill us all
23:16He told us he would kill us all
23:18If this thing had come to light
23:20Now Marshal Aquistucci
23:22He has the proof he was looking for.
23:24The confession he wanted
23:25Ernesto Picchioni is guilty
23:28That boy's voice admitted it
23:30But what exactly happened at the Picchioni house?
23:33At that point Aquistucci understands that
23:35To make the woman speak
23:37He needs to take her to another place
23:39A place that could make her feel safe
23:41And then he transfers her to the local barracks
23:44They're all scared to death
23:47They have a terrible fear of the head of the family.
23:49Aquistucci reassures them
23:53Abandoned on a chair
23:55Distraught with fear
23:56Angela begins to tell
24:05May 3, 1947
24:08Date of Alessandro Daddi's disappearance
24:10Someone is knocking on the door of the Picchioni house
24:13It's evening
24:14It's late
24:15And so Ernesto goes to open
24:17And so Ernesto goes to open
24:19In front of you is a cyclist who has broken down
24:24The man asks for oil and mastic
24:26To get the engine back on track
24:28Which to be exact
24:30It's a motorized bicycle
24:32A puppy
24:33Ernesto lets the cyclist in
24:35She tells him to make himself comfortable
24:36And in the meantime he goes to the garage
24:37To get the necessary equipment
24:40Wife and children remain hidden
24:42Inside a small room
24:43With the door ajar
24:44From there Filomena sees her husband returning
24:47With oil and mastic
24:50Then he sees the motorcyclist
24:52That starts to fix the engine
24:55You see that your husband too
24:57Behind the motorcyclist
24:58He's holding something tight
25:00But it's not putty
25:01No oil
25:02Ernesto Picchioni is tightening
25:04A club that suddenly vibrates
25:06On the poor guy's head
25:09The man falls stunned
25:10But he's not dead yet
25:13Then Picchioni grabs
25:15The kitchen knife
25:16And raging like a madman
25:18On the man who still screams
25:19He cuts his throat
25:39Then seeing the little door ajar
25:42With the knife still bloody
25:44He threatens his wife Filomena
25:45What are you doing there?
25:47If you talk I'll kill you
25:48You and your whole family
25:49Including the old one
25:51Ernesto Picchioni
25:52The moment he makes it out
25:54The other man
25:56It gives a very clear impression
25:58Of being capable of exterminating
26:00The whole family
26:01In order to save themselves
26:03Marshal Quistucci is shocked
26:05According to the wife's story
26:08Picchioni is not just a thief
26:10He's not just Alessandro Datti's murderer
26:12Picchioni is a ferocious monster
26:15Ready to exterminate all his loved ones
26:17For a stupid scooter
26:19But where did he hide Datti's body?
26:21Filomena looks at him in tears
26:23And then it continues
26:24The next morning
26:25The earth of the garden was loosened
26:27The body is down there then
26:29Under that field
26:30Which produces nothing else
26:31What blood and robberies
26:36A large pit was dug
26:39In the garden circumstance of power
26:41And Datti ended up in there
26:44This guy wasn't having it
26:46In the hole
26:48And then Picchioni cut off the legs
26:51At knee height
26:52To get them into the pit
26:57Here is the wife
26:59He hears him screaming
27:00He hears him moaning
27:01He feels the desperation of this man
27:04Even during the night
27:05Like some kind of nightmare
27:07Which is brought to the table
27:08All that remains is to check
27:10All that remains is to check
27:10But first there's a new twist
27:12Why Marshal Aquistucci wants to clear up a doubt
27:17Investigating the Mysteries of Kilometer 47
27:20He had discovered that in July 1944
27:23There on the Salaria
27:25Another person had disappeared
27:27It was not a matter of war
27:29Because the war in those areas was already over
27:33The city of Rieti and its entire province
27:35The Allies had liberated them a month earlier
27:38But also in Rome, in Viterbo
27:40And in all the other provinces of Lazio
27:43The liberating tanks had already arrived
27:47Of course, there were still hungry
27:50Poverty, confusion
27:52But death
27:54The one announced by the sound of the curfew
27:56Or from enemy raids
27:58It was already becoming a memory
28:00Cinema, photographs
28:09The recovery now reinvests all sectors
28:11All studios reopen their doors
28:13And the great rain of films begins
28:18But these images
28:20I am from the land of Visconti
28:22They are not shot in the studio
28:23The director went down to Sicily
28:25From Citrezza
28:26And he composed what is perhaps his masterpiece.
28:28The interpreters are all fishermen and farmers
28:31Neorealism is gradually beginning to smile
28:33It fades into the sketchy bonhomie
28:36Under the Roman Sun by Castellani
28:37Or in spectacular populism
28:39The Honorable Angelina di Zampa
28:41Meanwhile, life was returning to normal.
28:44People have started going out again
28:46He wants to have fun
28:47Just living a normal life
28:50July 5, 1944
28:53A lawyer from Rome
28:54Peter Monni
28:56He had asked his brother-in-law to borrow the bicycle
28:59To go on a trip with friends
29:01By chance, by fate, mocking
29:03It stops at kilometer 47 of the Salaria
29:06Like Alessandro Dardi
29:08The quiet employee of Rome
29:11Even the lawyer Monni
29:12He will never be able to reach his goal
29:15And disappear
29:22How many people did Picchioni kill?
29:24Asks Bruciapela Quistucci
29:25To the criminal's wife
29:27And her?
29:28Two? Three? Maybe four?
29:31Marshal Quistucci is satisfied
29:33But also shocked
29:34Because he has the culprit in his hands
29:36But he's more guilty than he thought.
29:40It's the monster of Nerola
29:42The thing that has really caught on
29:45In the collective imagination always
29:47It's that he may have killed many more people
29:49During the war
29:50In a period in which disappearances
29:52They were the order of the day
29:54And you might not even have known
29:57And never knowing who these lives were
29:59At this point it is necessary
30:01A grim recap
30:03According to his wife
30:05Ernesto Picchioni certainly killed
30:07Alessandro Daddi
30:08And almost certainly also the lawyer Monni
30:11But always according to the woman
30:13Other horrible secrets may lie
30:16In the vegetable garden at kilometer 47 of the Salaria
30:19To discover them, all you have to do is dig.
30:30Forty-seventh kilometer of the Via Salaria
30:32The monster lived here
30:34Of which we will not show you the atrocious images
30:37Marshal Grisi makes people revolt
30:39The land of the gloomy clandestine cemetery
30:42I earn money by selling snails
30:44The monster said
30:45The brothers saw it emerge
30:47The bones of Alessandro Daddi
30:48They recognized the puppy
30:49Which jammed at the kilometer of death
30:51Here he threatened to bury me
30:54And his mother and our four children
30:56If we opened our mouths
30:58Angelo had that long grave dug for everyone
31:12While in Regina Celi Picchioni is locked in solitary confinement
31:15Waiting for confession
31:17Judge Castaldi rushes to Nerola
31:20To see how far along the excavations are in the Garden of Mysteries
31:23The picture is gruesome
31:26But at this point the case took on a completely different dimension.
31:32Why the Picchioni family's vegetable garden turned out to be a real garden of horrors
31:37The land of the monster has already spat out the corpses of Alessandro Daddi and Pietro Monni
31:43But that's not all
31:44Even parts of dismantled bicycles are coming to light
31:48Clothes, dog skeletons
31:50Instead, weapons of all kinds emerged from the house
31:53A rifle, a club and bloody knives
31:56Judge Castaldi orders everything to be sealed
32:00Then he orders the arrest of Filomena Picchioni
32:03Of his son Angelo and of the whole family
32:05For complicity, because with their silence
32:08They covered up that scoundrel Ernesto
32:12But also because confronting them with the monster will be crucial
32:15In order to nail Picchioni to his faults
32:18And then, deep down, the judiciary is still not sure
32:22On the role that the family may have had in the events
32:26Why didn't the wife speak up earlier?
32:28Is fear of retaliation enough to justify his behavior?
32:32And if maybe the woman is just trying to blame Picchioni
32:36Could this be your fault and that of your 14-year-old son?
32:41While awaiting trial, Picchioni continues to be questioned
32:50What newspapers and public opinion now simply call
32:54The Monster of Nerola
32:55He reiterates his innocence
32:57But it's starting to bacillary
32:59Then, suddenly, he has a breakdown
33:02But it's more of a search for mitigating circumstances.
33:05Precisely in those territories which in the meantime
33:08They made it to the front pages of the newspapers
33:11And let's talk about politics
33:13Here the person conducting the interrogations is skilled
33:15To suggest this strange defensive strategy to Picchioni
33:24Picchioni finally confesses to the murders
33:26By Alessandro Daddi and Pietro Monni
33:28But it's a half confession
33:30Why Picchioni gives those crimes an ideological color
33:33Yes, it was me
33:36I did it because they wanted to force me to join the Action Party.
33:41For Picchioni, politics was a clumsy attempt by the peasant
33:48Of those who have a small mentality
33:49To be able to justify these crimes of his
33:54But I think it had absolutely nothing to do with it.
33:58He doesn't seek justification
34:00He is a person who believes he is acting on behalf of the people
34:04In reality he acts in his own name
34:06A proletarian envy, as we can call it
34:10Which then leads directly to overburdening
34:13To strengthen the political thesis
34:15Picchioni also brings up a partisan past
34:18In fact, during the war, he admits to having killed two Nazi soldiers.
34:23It's a shame that the investigators discovered that those two murders
34:26They were not carried out for political purposes
34:28But of pure and simple robbery
34:32Meanwhile, Picchioni's family members are being questioned again
34:40We lived in fear, Mr. Marshal.
34:42When he walked in that door
34:44Sometimes he talked, talked, laughed loudly, in fits and starts
34:48Then silent with a tomb
34:50It was here, in the kitchen, by the fireplace
34:52I saw it with my own eyes
34:54He died with the iron-clad club in daddi
34:56And after, because I was silent, I was afraid
35:01Fear
35:05How many nights have you barked over a corpse?
35:09Wife Filomena tells stories of abuse
35:13Of hereditary defects
35:14Of corporal punishments that her husband inflicted on her out of sadism
35:19I remember her saying that she had been there several times in the winter night with the snow
35:26Forced into the balcony, naked
35:29She was treated more or less, or rather I would say, less than a pet.
35:34Among the newspaper pages competing to increase the number of victims of the monster
35:40There is also room for the wife's responsibility
35:43Picchioni's wife witnessed Daddi's murder
35:48And she also helped her husband get rid of the body.
35:51He heard the shot that killed the lawyer Monni
35:54But it is not known, it is not easy to understand to what extent
35:58She is completely exonerated from any responsibility
36:02This whole post-war monster thing is so strong.
36:06There is an episode that connects the story of Nero's monster to the saporificatrice of Correggio
36:13And that's when, to justify the disappearance of many of the monster's imagined killers
36:22It was even thought that they could have been flavoured with the complicity of the wife.
36:28Somehow putting together two stories that held up from the point of view of legend
36:34Of the legendary packaging but which made absolutely no sense
36:47In reality the monster's wife has never killed or saponified
36:51If he didn't find the courage to speak out it was only because he was afraid of ending up like her.
36:56those cyclists
36:59A very strong fear that also emerges from the words of Angelo Picchioni
37:03The eldest son forced by his father to dig his own grave
37:07Angelo was also arrested for complicity
37:10But he also justifies the silence with his father's terrifying threats.
37:15Who doesn't believe the boy, who doesn't believe the mother
37:18Who wants to believe in the image of the diabolical family led by a monster father?
37:23Maybe he doesn't do it selflessly.
37:26There's a lot of politics in this story too.
37:30It's 1948, it's a special year
37:33A battle rages between communists and Christian Democrats
37:36That spares nothing and no one
37:38And for the Christian Democrat militants it would be a great coup.
37:42Proving that those who vote communist end up like the Picchioni family
37:49The fact that the monster of Nerola called himself a communist
37:54He also caused a battle to break out
37:56That is to say, media-friendly for what the media were at the time.
38:00On his figure and what it could have entailed
38:03There was a moment of opposition
38:05Between Christian Democracy and the Communist Party
38:07There was an election in 1948
38:09So there was certainly a lot of fuss about it.
38:21In the end, however, as Marshal Aquistucci hoped,
38:24All doubts about the family members fall away
38:26And it is precisely their testimonies that nail the woodpeckers.
38:31Given the long investigation
38:32The trial only started in March 1949
38:36A historic date for Italy
38:38In fact, from 11 to 20 March 1949
38:42The beautiful country votes to join the Atlantic Pact
38:45A global alliance that ensures peace in Europe
38:48But for some, like the left-wing forces
38:51The pact is considered a subservience to America
38:55Hence the clashes in Parliament between the political forces
38:59Strikes and street demonstrations
39:06While history is being written in the chamber
39:08A few steps further on, at the Palace of Justice
39:11The trial of Nero's monster begins
39:13There are many who follow him
39:15In person or in the newspapers
39:17The Picchioni trial attracted a large audience
39:21Because the idea of the monster
39:24The brutality, the number of victims
39:27It was such that many people
39:31They filled the courtroom taxi driver
39:33From seven in the morning
39:35They were queuing up
39:35To look, to realize
39:38Let's talk about what the character was
39:40They say even actor Tyron Power
39:43He was passionate about the story
39:45And Picchioni doesn't miss the show in the courtroom
39:48They were young lawyers
39:52When these lawyers reached ACME
39:55From their ring, the lyricism
39:58And then Picchioni commented with loud raspberries
40:04Which could be heard throughout the room
40:06And to say that Picchioni wouldn't have many reasons to joke
40:10The bodies of Alessandro Daddi and Pietro Monni
40:13The stories of Filomena and Angelo Picchioni
40:16They constitute more than sufficient evidence to convict him.
40:23Of course, from Filomena's words
40:25New crimes, new deaths would emerge
40:28The woman will accuse Ernesto Picchioni
40:31Of killing these people
40:34Of having done it in cold blood
40:35Of having done it without any reason
40:37If not stealing those few lire they might have in their pockets
40:41Those few consumer goods
40:44That however precious
40:46They weren't worth the price of a lifetime
40:49At least eight
40:51But maybe even more
40:52Sixteen even
40:54How does someone come to hypothesize?
40:55How many people did Ernesto Picchioni really kill?
41:05Ernesto Picchioni, a farmer from Nerola
41:07Town on the outskirts of Rome
41:08He is accused of killing two cyclists
41:11Who passed in front of his farm
41:13The man denies everything
41:15He claims he was framed
41:17For his communist militancy
41:18But there is a super testimony
41:21To nail Picchioni
41:22That of his wife Filomena
41:25The woman saw and heard everything
41:27And then there are the bodies buried in Picchioni's garden
41:31And above all, another terrible suspicion is arising.
41:35That Picchioni killed and hid many other people
41:39Maybe even eight
41:42But these are just hypotheses
41:44Why the excavations in the Salaria garden?
41:46And then new research was also carried out on the caves
41:49In the woods around Nerola
41:50They don't bring anything concrete
41:52But around the garden of death
41:57Two more bodies found
41:59One of a boy about 15-16 years old
42:03A teenager
42:04And that of a mature man
42:06Who am I?
42:08Nobody knows
42:09Certainly they are not conclusive evidence.
42:13But they certainly support the theorem
42:17Del Picchioni as a monster of the area
42:22The stories Filomena Picchioni repeats in court
42:26Instead, they are evidence
42:27And the woman's unusual harshness strikes the judges
42:32He entered the classroom
42:33He remained at first
42:35Dazzled, disoriented
42:36The lights, the buzz
42:38Lawyers in robes
42:40And he had a moment of confusion
42:43Then he looked around for something.
42:46Until she met her husband's eyes
42:50And then he held on with all his strength
42:53His small stature
42:55And she launched an invective against her husband
42:59So on March 13, 1949
43:02The Rome Assize Court condemns Ernesto Picchioni
43:06Two life sentences and 26 years in prison
43:08Picchioni is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison
43:14Rather, to spy on his punishment
43:16Picchioni should have died
43:19And be reborn once again
43:21And go back to die in prison
43:23Why he is even charged with two life sentences
43:26When the verdict is read
43:28When Filomena Picchioni yells at her husband
43:30With the little anger she has left in short supply
43:33Ernesto Picchioni is transferred
43:48In a maximum security cell in the Civitavecchia prison
43:51Pending an appeal judgment
43:53Which doesn't bode well for him.
43:55The same severity as the Assize Court
44:00It was adopted by the Court of Assizes of Appeal
44:04Which he re-examined in the second degree
44:06He redid the process
44:08And he stuck to the first judge's conclusions.
44:12They asked him if he had ever seen his relatives in prison.
44:16And he said absolutely not.
44:19Because if they come to visit me in a moment of distraction
44:21I will do everything to kill them
44:23And the second thing he said
44:25And if he regretted what he had done
44:27He says I have absolutely no regrets whatsoever.
44:29I would do exactly what I did again
44:31It's not just the fear of being killed
44:34To keep family members away from prison
44:36Where Nero's monster serves his infinite sentence
44:39Mother Filomena and the four children just want to forget
44:43And rebuild an acceptable life
44:45But it's difficult, very difficult
44:48It would take a miracle
44:49A miracle like the one we are about to tell
45:00April 16, 1956
45:02Readers of the English magazine Time
45:05They open the newspaper and find an article
45:08Which tells the extraordinary story of an Italian girl
45:11Carolina
45:11At the age of nine, she ends up in the college of the nuns of San Giovanni Carasanzio in Rome.
45:16Together with his sister Gabriella
45:19The two girls are not orphans
45:21The mother is a woman destroyed by life
45:25The father is a man who has destroyed eight lives
45:28Ten, maybe sixteen
45:34Carolina and Gabriella are Ernesto Picchioni's daughters
45:37The Merola Monster
45:40One day in 1952
45:43Fitzosher, the English king of steel
45:45He shows up at the institute
45:47Where are the daughters of the monster of Merola
45:49And decides to adopt
45:51One of these girls
45:53To make her a rich heiress
45:55And who does she choose among the 157 guests of the institute?
46:00Carolina Picchioni
46:01The daughter of Merola's monster
46:02Who recently turned 13
46:04Carolina also wants Gabriella with her
46:07The younger sister
46:08Ocera allows
46:09Ocera takes her with him to London
46:11But in 1956
46:13The King of Steel Has a Heart Attack
46:15He dies instantly
46:19Carolina Picchioni was nine years old
46:21When they took her father away
46:22Who had committed atrocious crimes
46:24She was taken in to an orphanage
46:26One day a gentleman took care of her
46:28And he began the process to adopt her.
46:30Today that gentleman, the Englishman Fitzhawker
46:32Known as the King of Steel
46:34Is dead
46:34And perhaps Carolina will inherit his immense riches
46:37What are your plans for the future?
46:39First of all visit England
46:42With the Berossino family
46:43Where my adoptive father lived
46:45Then visit Italy
46:46And we will help you find a Prince Charming
46:49That will make you happy
46:50While all of Italy dreams with Carolina's story
46:53The Merola monster is known for its excesses
46:57A bloody brawl with a fellow inmate
47:00And above all an attempted attack on Pope John XXIII
47:04During a pastoral visit to prison
47:07It seems to me that during a visit of the Pope
47:12Picchioni attempted to attack him
47:14And he was stopped by the guards at the last moment
47:17And he did it screaming
47:19And then dragged
47:20Ernesto Picchioni was released from prison only in 1967
47:25Survived by heart failure
47:27The attack is so strong that, the inmates say
47:30Picchioni lets out a bestial howl
47:32A scream of a beast, of a beast, of a monster
47:35From Merola's monster
47:50A waitress disappears into thin air
47:53He goes out and buys a bottle of milk.
47:55Come back, put the bottle in the kitchen
47:58And from that moment on, no one in the family sees her anymore.
48:03He starved her to death
48:05And the autopsy report was only one
48:08He died on average
48:09And there the full yellow enters
48:11He did it for love
48:12And then, just to keep her
48:16Even though he couldn't hold it
48:19It went on until the end
48:23Do we call it love?
48:25But
48:25Do we call it infatuation?
48:28In the next episode of Crimes
48:30We will tell you a mind-blowing story of passion and madness
48:33From the Italian post-war period
48:35The Monster of Busto Arsizio
48:44Thank you all.
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