September 23, 2024 | 20:33
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The confession, live on television, of Lorenzo Carbone, 50, who admitted in front of the cameras of ‘Pomeriggio Cinque’ – which were stationed in front of his relative’s house – to having killed his sick mother caused a great stir. The man was intercepted outside his home in Spezzano di Fiorano, just outside Modena, by the programme’s journalist Fabio Giuffrida. But It is certainly not the first time that, on live TV, an admission of a very serious crime has taken place.
A striking case was that of Ferdinando Carrettawho on August 4, 1989 in Parma, at the time of the crime, aged 27, killed his parents, Giuseppe and Marta, and his younger brother, Nicola. The confession to the murder took place in 1998 during an interview on ‘Chi l’ha visto?’, even before giving it to the public prosecutor. The Rai journalist, who was in London where the criminal had taken refuge following the murder, tracked him down thanks to a tip-off from the London police who had stopped him for a routine check. “I grabbed that gun and shot my parents and my brother,” Carretta declared in the interview.
In the history of shocking revelations on live TV there is also the one concerning the discovery of the body of Sarah Scazzi, the 15 year old killed in Avetrana on 26 August 2010. Even though the trial, concluded in 2013, will sentence Sabrina Misseri and her mother Cosima Serrano to life imprisonment for the murder, her uncle Michael Misseri at a certain point in the story he confesses to the crime (he will later retract) and indicates the place where he hid the body: the discovery of the body and the communication of the news to Sarah’s mother take place live on the Rai 3 program Chi l’ha visto? while Concetta Serrano Spagnolo is a guest in connection (the case will be at the center of the series ‘Avetrana – Qui non รจ Hollywood’, which will be previewed at the Rome Film Fest and then broadcast from October 25 on Disney+).
But Confessing murders on live TV is not just a prerogative of Italy. Just to recall a particularly shocking case, in 2016 during a TV program in Turkey that dealt with news stories and disappearances, Himmet Akturk was a guest, suspected of being one of those responsible for the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl, Irmak Kupal. The man, interviewed by the presenter in a pressing manner, suddenly gave in and confessed that he was the author of the murder of the little girl, who he killed after raping her and then burying her in a vineyard. The police intervened immediately, arresting the man immediately.
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