The Monsters of Ponticelli

Season 1

Naples, 3 July 1983, in the suburb of Ponticelli: the bodies of Barbara Sellini and Nunzia Munizzi, aged 7 and 10, were discovered on a stretch of the dry riverbed of the Pollena torrent. The autopsy revealed that they had been subjected to abuse and sexual violence. "The Ponticelli murders" left an indelible mark. Who could have committed such a horrific crime?

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S1 E1 - Two Little Girls
April 21, 2023
51min
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Naples, July 2, 1983. At around 10 o'clock in the evening at the Carabinieri barracks in Pontecelli's Rione Incis, a district on the eastern outskirts of Naples, the parents of Nunzia and Barbara - two little girls, aged 7 and 10 - reported the girl's disappearance after they seemed to have vanished into thin air a few hours earlier.
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S1 E2 - Three Monsters
April 21, 2023
52min
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Carmine Mastrillo, the brother of little Antonella, the young friend of the victims, was the super witness who pointed the finger at Ciro, Giuseppe and Luigi. He attended numerous interrogations at the barracks during those weeks without ever offering anything useful for the investigation. Then, in early September, came an account that seemed to leave no room for doubt.
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S1 E3 - Twenty-Seven Years
April 21, 2023
50min
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On October 9, what by then seemed to everyone to be the only possible outcome duly arrived: the three were pronounced guilty. Ciro Imperante, Luigi Schiavo and Giuseppe La Rocca were sentenced to the maximum, life imprisonment.
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S1 E4 - Three Men
April 21, 2023
50min
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Ciro, Giuseppe and Luigi now live in Spoleto, a quiet town in Italy that was home to the prison where they spent 27 years in the same cell. They are in their early 50s, have children and jobs, and despite everything, they have managed to rebuild their lives. That is precisely why they continue to fight for a review of the trial that convicted them.
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