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NARRATOR: Northolt, London, England, a man arrives at the home of 58-year-old Peter Fasoli
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for a prearranged meeting. In less than six hours time, the house will be on fire with Peter Fasoli trapped inside.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: The fire brigade managed to extinguish the blaze. But when they did so, they found Peter's body
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inside the bungalow. This isn't a suspicious death. This is a tragic accident. NARRATOR: For almost two years, it
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was believed that Peter Fasoli's death was caused by the fire, until this footage recovered from his hard drive
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revealed that Peter had been murdered by his 24-year-old visitor, Jason Marshall.
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EMILY PENNINK: Jason Marshall is wrapping clingfilm around Peter's head. And he's clearly terrified for his life.
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That's an image that's very hard to forget. NARRATOR: By the time investigators had discovered that Peter had been
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murdered, Marshall had fled to Italy, where he'd killed again. EDWARD BROWN QC: Some people sometimes use the word evil.
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It's not something I'm an expert to decide what is evil or not. He was most certainly one of the most dangerous men
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that I've seen in the [INAUDIBLE].. NARRATOR: Jason Marshall had been caught on camera
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and revealed as one of the world's most evil killers. [MUSIC PLAYING] On the 26th of September 2017, 29-year-old Jason Marshall
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was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Peter Fasoli. The killing took place over six harrowing hours
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in which Marshall bound, gagged, and tortured his victim. And all of it was caught on camera.
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By the time British authorities had been handed the footage, Jason Marshall was already serving 16 years
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in an Italian psychiatric hospital for the murder of Vincenzo Iale and the attempted
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murder of Umberto Gismondi. Court reporter Emily Pennink was at the Old Bailey to witness
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the 2017 trial of the deranged killer. EMILY PENNINK: I think Jason Marshall tried to pick people
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who were living by themselves because that in itself makes them vulnerable and really makes
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them easy pickings for somebody like Jason Marshall. NARRATOR: Marshall had a history of impersonating police
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officers, which Metropolitan Police detectives discovered during the investigation
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into the murder of Peter Fasoli. ANDY BAKER: How would I describe Jason Marshall?
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Someone that's fixated with authority, someone that likes to have a position of power,
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someone that picks his victims carefully, weakening him. And if challenged by them, fights back, gets violent.
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EMILY PENNINK: Jason Marshall was an actor. He put on persona. And he pretended to be somebody else.
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But when you strip all that away, he showed absolutely no empathy towards any of his victims and no remorse.
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NARRATOR: This killer story begins in Southeast London. Jason Marshall was born in Greenwich
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on the 11th of August 1988. His childhood was far from ideal. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Marshall had three siblings.
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He was one of four children. And his childhood was quite turbulence because age three
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or four, he goes into foster care when his parents go to prison for fraud. EMILY PENNINK: His parents were both drug
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addicts, addicted to heroin. And he said that the most happy time he ever spent was when he was in foster care.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: So you have this pattern of an extraordinarily dysfunctional family that took over his life.
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It's as though it's a Petri dish for the creation of a man who has to go on to become a killer.
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As he grew up, life dealt another harsh blow to the troubled youngster. ANDY BAKER: When Marshall was about eight,
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his paternal grandfather was murdered by a neighbor. He was stabbed several times.
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And this must have had an effect on Marshall. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Marshall's grandfather was killed.
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And Marshall later says that he was killed by the IRA. So here, we've got a tendency to exaggerate and to embellish.
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It's not bad enough that your grandfather has been killed. It has to be dressed up to be more dramatic.
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And that is an inherently narcissistic trait, feeling that needs to exaggerate things, to make
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them more than they are, to get more attention for yourself. NARRATOR: During adolescence, the tormented teen
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suffered in silence. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Marshall had quite a few mental health issues.
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And they really did start to come out during his teenage years. He was really struggling.
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And some of the behaviors that he exhibited I think marginalized him from people that could
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have potentially helped him. And I do think some of this behavior was a cry for help.
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Somewhere in those teenage years, he begins to develop delusions, very severe delusions.
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He sees himself as an archangel, a messenger from God. And those delusions stalk the rest of his life.
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But at the age of 17, he tries to commit suicide by jumping off a car park in Stratford in East London.
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He doesn't succeed in killing himself, but he's clearly dreadfully disturbed. NARRATOR: As the troubled teenager matured into an adult,
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Marshall found a new form of escapism. He was arrested on a number of occasions for masquerading as figures of authority,
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including an MI5 officer. And in August 2011, the 22-year-old was convicted on two counts of impersonating a police
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officer, for which he received an eight-month suspended prison sentence. EMILY PENNINK: I think Jason Marshall naturally
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had a real theatrical flair. He liked dressing up. He liked playing a part. He liked acting.
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But it seems that he enjoyed playing the role of a police officer or any authority figure because he felt that it gave
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him more authority and respect. And he didn't like the person that he was and the way that people saw him so he tried
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on this new persona, which he thought would get him what he needed. ANDY BAKER: There's evidence of him impersonating police,
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even making up his own warrant cards, going into police stations, Kentish Town and Suffolk Police
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Station, where he was able to hold his own as a police officer and breeze through, managed
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to steal some equipment radios. NARRATOR: Marshall struggled to hold down a job,
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but he soon found a way of making money by advertising his services via social networking site.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So he sets himself up as a male escort. And he presents himself as a specialist in S&M.
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And he goes by the name Gabriel. And I think this is testament to his grandiosity
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because he's thinking archangel Gabriel here. So this is a very narcissistic individual.
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And this is not going to end well. NARRATOR: In December 2012, Marshall befriended a 58-year-old man who he'd met on the dating app.
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EMILY PENNINK: Peter Fasoli was-- he was described as a vulnerable middle aged man, living by himself in Northolt.
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He worked as a IT technician. But he mainly worked from home so he didn't see a lot of people day-to-day.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think because he's of a certain age, he's in his late 50s, he would have
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grown up during a time when homosexuality was quite stigmatized. So that part of his life, those intimate relationships,
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it was something his family didn't know an awful lot about. He kept quite a lot of detail to himself.
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So that kind of secrecy is the sort of thing that a predator like Marshall preys on.
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NARRATOR: The pair met up just before New Year's Eve and decided to see each other again the following week.
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ANDY BAKER: So Marshall arranged to go around to pieces address in Northolt. But he arranged that he would bring a friend,
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and that they could have a threesome. Obviously, Peter was interested in this. That actually didn't materialize.
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EMILY PENNINK: Jason Marshall arrived at Peter Fasoli's home in Northolt on the 6th of January 2013 at about 7:00 PM.
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NARRATOR: Six hours later, Peter Fasoli's bungalow was ablaze. The fire brigade managed to extinguish the blaze,
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but they discover Peter's body inside the bungalow. And at that point, they believe that Peter has died from smoke
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inhalation from the fire. This isn't a suspicious death. This is a tragic accident.
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NARRATOR: Early indications suggested that a faulty light may have fallen from the ceiling onto Peter's bed
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and accidentally started the fire. EMILY PENNINK: There's a post-mortem examination done
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on Peter Fasoli's body and that seems to confirm that he died during the fire because the pathologist found some evidence
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of smoke inhalation. And from there, the police take the cue from the fire brigade
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and they don't take the investigation, any further. NARRATOR: The truth of what happened inside Peter Fasoli's
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home was much more sinister. The 58-year-old had been tortured and murdered by Jason Marshall.
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But the police had no idea. EMILY PENNINK: He seems to have covered his tracks quite well,
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although maybe if the police had cause to delve a little bit deeper at the time, they would have discovered that somebody
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was taking out money from Peter Fasoli's bank account after he was already dead.
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So maybe if they had looked into his financial affairs, it would have become quite obvious
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quite quickly that something was amiss. NARRATOR: On the 11th of January, using money stolen
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from his victim, Jason Marshall headed to the airport and boarded a plane to Italy.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: He believes he's got away with murder. He's left a body in a bungalow in Northolt. He's in Rome.
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No one's come after him. As far as he knows, no one suspects a thing. NARRATOR: To cover his tracks, Marshall
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made sure he left a digital footprint on the social networking site where he'd met his victim.
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ANDY BAKER: Marshall, even though he knew that Peter was dead, he started sending emails and messages to Peter
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as if he was still alive. Eventually, ending with a, I guess you don't want to speak to me anymore.
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That's it then. NARRATOR: By late January, Marshall was back on the app and searching for potential partners in Italy.
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EMILY PENNINK: Vincenzo Iale was a 67-year-old gay man living in Rome. He clearly met people online.
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And that's how he came across a Jason Marshall, who almost straightaway set about doing what
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he'd always done to get by. On the 26th of January 2013, the two men met up for the first time.
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ANDY BAKER: They go to Vincenzo's home, which is about 15 kilometers away from Rome.
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And they're there the nights we don't know the detail what happened in their interaction, but what
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we do know is that Vincenzo didn't materialize for about seven days after that meeting with Marshall
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and going to the house. So his neighbors were concerned, contacted the police. NARRATOR: On the 3rd of February,
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police discovered the lifeless body of 67-year-old Vincenzo Iale. STUART HAMILTON: The scene that the police
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were faced with Vincenzo would have been deeply unpleasant. We have a man who's been stabbed.
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He has an electrical flex wrapped around his neck, giving a very good clue as to how
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he ultimately may have died. And of course, this is about a week later, his body is going to have started to decompose as well
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as that visual distress that the police will receive there would be the unmistakable odor of somebody
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starting to decompose. NARRATOR: Detectives immediately began the hunt for Vincenzo's killer.
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ANDY BAKER: When Vincenzo's body was found, the police started straightaway looking into his background.
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So remnants of victimology, understand your victim, understand part of what happened.
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The police started looking, so they struck up a relationship with a Brit, who Jason Marshall, found
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Jason Marshall's phone number, identified who he was, found where he was. And they surveyed him.
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Not having enough evidence for the murder, but certainly that he was in a relationship
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with him or he had seen him recently. EMILY PENNINK: But also, Mr. Iale's bank cards were missing.
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And an investigation of his financial affairs showed that Mr. Iale's bank cards were still being
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used even after he was dead. They managed to track down an occasion where cash was
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withdrawn from his bank account from a hole in the wall cash dispenser, which had a camera on it, which captured
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Jason Marshall's image on it. NARRATOR: Italian investigators began surveillance on Jason Marshall.
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And on the 21st of February 2013, they followed him to the apartment of 55-year-old Umberto Gismondi, another man Marshall had met
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via the social networking app. ANDY BAKER: They went to Umberto's home and we know this for sure that Marshall,
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when he took off his jacket, Umberto saw that he had a firearm. And he had his some form of utility
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belt. Umberto challenged Marshall about why he got a gun and he said, well, I worked for MI5 for the British embassy.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think most of us realize that people who work in the intelligence services
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don't go around telling people that that's what they do, especially random people that they hook up with.
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So I think Umberto possibly challenged Marshall about this and said I don't actually believe you.
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And Marshall wouldn't have reacted well to this or he doesn't like being challenged,
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he doesn't like being questioned. So this would not have gone well. NARRATOR: Just after midnight, the police surveillance
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was called off for the night. Little did they know, Jason Marshall was about to try and claim a third victim.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: He flies into a rage and proceeds to attack Umberto. He binds him and gags him with the DCF tape.
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He punches him repeatedly in the back and uses the pepper spray. But this time, the neighbors hear the screams
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and call the police. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So this was a really, really close call.
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And I think Umberto was very lucky to have escaped with his life. Just after 2:00 AM, the police returned to the address
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they'd left just hours previously. But Marshall had fled the scene. Investigators were now certain he
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was responsible for the murder of Vincenzo Iale. GEOFFREY WANSELL: The police know
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perfectly well who went into the building because they'd watched him go in. And thankfully, Umberto is alive.
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And he can tell them that it is indeed, Jason Marshall, the man, they've been tracking all this time.
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NARRATOR: By tracing Marshall's phone, the police were able to intercept him just four hours
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after the attack on Umberto. The 24-year-old was found on a bus, heading out of town.
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EMILY PENNINK: Well, the fact that Jason Marshall was caught red-handed meant that Italian police were on to him
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pretty quickly. So they managed to apprehend him and take him into custody. And whereas before, his victims couldn't speak for themselves
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because they were dead, this time, there was a live witness who could identify him,
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who was able to say what had happened. And there was really nothing that Jason Marshall could
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do to talk his way out of it. NARRATOR: Unbelievably, he did try to talk his way out of it.
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Marshall came up with another elaborate story. He told detectives he worked for the British embassy,
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and therefore, had diplomatic immunity. But the fantasy world of Jason Marshall was falling apart.
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He was arrested, charged. And just over a year later in March 2014, the 25-year-old was in an Italian courtroom.
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EMILY PENNINK: Jason Marshall went on trial in Italy for killing Mr. Iale and also the attempted
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murder of Mr. Gismondi. He denied having anything to do with Mr. Iale's death and says someone else must have done it.
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And he named a suspect called Michael, who he said was responsible. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think this serves a real purpose for him.
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It's enabling him to describe the murder. It's enabling him to relive it and to enjoy
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those feelings of reliving it. But at the same time, he's trying to pin it on somebody else by doing this.
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So this is a very dangerous game to play when you try and pin your offenses on an imaginary person.
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EMILY PENNINK: He wasn't able to do that, obviously, in the case of Mr. Gismondi.
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So instead, he claimed that Mr. Gismondi had actually attacked him and he was a victim.
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And he was acting in some sort of self-defense. NARRATOR: Marshall's delusional claims
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were scrutinized by psychiatrist during the proceedings. GEOFFREY WANSELL: It was asked at his trial was
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he sane enough to stand trial. The answer was yes. And I would say, indeed, he was.
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After all, he had premeditatedly chosen his victims. He did cover his tracks. He'd stolen their bank cards.
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And he'd stolen their money. These are not the actions of a madman consumed by fantasies.
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But they are the actions of a man who is a cold-hearted, cold-blooded premeditated killer, someone
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who is consumed by his fantasies. ANDY BAKER: He put up loads of different defenses.
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He did say that he was working for the government. He did say he was Gabriel, the archangel for gold.
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He did challenge a judge saying you can't judge me, only God can judge me because I'm the angel Gabriel.
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And he was found guilty of murder of Vincenzo Iale and attempted murder of Umberto Gismondi.
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NARRATOR: In July 2014, Jason Marshall was sentenced to 22 years for his crimes.
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But due to a psychiatric report about his mental health, his sentence was soon reduced to 16 years.
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Meanwhile, in November 2014, over 1,000 miles away from Rome, a startling discovery
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was made in Britain. REPORTER: The bungalow, which was across the road was destroyed in the fire.
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But police did manage to save a few items, including a computer hard drive, which was given to the victim's nephew.
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EMILY PENNINK: And what was really an incredible twist, Peter Fasoli's nephew stumbled across a key piece of evidence,
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which was to change the whole investigation and made police realize, for the first time,
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that no, it wasn't an accident and something terrible has gone on. His nephew picked up his old computer.
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And because he thought there might be some interesting research on there about their family history, he decided to have
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a look at the hard drive. Rather than finding interesting trivia about the family,
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he stumbled across something that was truly, truly horrifying. NARRATOR: Unbeknown to anyone, Peter Fasoli's webcam
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had captured his final moments. His nephew couldn't believe what he was seeing. ANDY BAKER: And he watches this coming
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into Uncle Peter's bungalow, making out he's from MI5. He's got the gun, doing the radio,
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play-acting, handcuffing, tying up, torturing, burning, stealing, then killing his uncle.
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ELIZABETH YARDLEY: If it's not traumatic enough to lose your uncle, it's even worse
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when you come across this footage and you see how he lost his life. So this would have been a very harrowing thing
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to have to witness. NARRATOR: The shocking new evidence was immediately given to the police.
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EMILY PENNINK: So Peter Fasoli's nephew is clearly horrified by what he's seen and deeply disturbed by it
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because up until this point, he, like everybody else, had thought that Peter had just died
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in a terrible accidental fire. So he hands over this crucial piece of evidence to the police.
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NARRATOR: For the first time, the truth of what happened to Peter Fasoli had come to light.
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Investigators sat down to watch the entire ordeal from start to finish. The footage showed that the 58-year-old's death in January
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2013, which had been believed to be accidental was anything but. EMILY PENNINK: It seems as if Peter Fasoli had switched
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his webcam on the computer. And his computer was angled towards the living area in his front room.
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And it captured all the events of the night of his murder. NARRATOR: The footage is so graphic,
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that only a handful of people have been allowed to view the unedited seven-hour long video.
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EMILY PENNINK: The video footage of Peter Fasoli's murder was truly, truly horrific to watch.
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I mean, it was one of the most disturbing things I think I've seen. ANDY BAKER: Marshall turns up in Peter's bungalow.
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Marshall takes his jacket off. And he's got a kind of lanyard around his neck with what looks like a quick look, a police warrant card.
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Pretty badly made up. But it could actually dupe someone to think it is a warrant card.
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NARRATOR: Just as he'd done in the past, Marshall was impersonating an officer. He even spoke into a phony police radio
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to help in his cover up. ANDY BAKER: Marshall then starts talking to Peter about his work.
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Peter says that he fixes computers. Marshall then accuses him of criminality. And he's working for terrorists and fixing their computers.
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He then says I'm going to take you to a police station. I'm going to arrest you.
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EMILY PENNINK: To begin with, Peter Fasoli probably thought that it was all a bit of a game
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and a little bit of role play. But there comes a point where Marshall handcuffs him, and gags him, and it's no longer a game.
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And it becomes very serious to him. ANDY BAKER: You can see Peter gets a bit distressed.
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This is all caught on camera and audio. EMILY PENNINK: He's gagged, but he's trying to shout out,
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and scream for help. And he's trying to get him to stop. In a way, it seems as if Jason Marshall at this point
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was enjoying Peter Fasoli's distress. It only encouraged him to carry on and become even more violent
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and aggressive towards him. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think he gradually becomes more and more frightened as Marshall
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continues to do this role play. And it would become quite clear to him that Marshall has crossed that line
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between fantasy and reality. And he's not coming back from it. So this would have been really, really scary.
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And I think the points at which Marshall gets the so-called truth serum out is something that
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makes Peter incredibly afraid. NARRATOR: The 24-year-old injected Peter with an unidentified liquid substance.
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Marshall then began to reveal his true intentions. GEOFFREY WANSELL: He eventually threatens again.
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Out of the blue producing a knife, and saying that he's going to cut Fasoli's tongue
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out unless he gives him the pin numbers. Not surprisingly, Fasoli gives in. ANDY BAKER: He takes Peter's bankcards.
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But Peter challenges him again. And he hits Peter. And he burns him with a cigarette on his chest.
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GEOFFREY WANSELL: He may not have originally have gone there determined to kill him.
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But I think the power that he had over this man had become intoxicating. He was bound up in his own fantasy,
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this extraordinary fantasy of godlike power. And by the end of the evening, he had decided that Fasoli
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was not going to survive. NARRATOR: At 9:30 PM, Marshall left the house to visit
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an ATM with Peter's bank cards. Before returning to finish the job he'd started,
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he injected Peter with the unknown substance a further three times. EMILY PENNINK: And what was quite a chilling moment,
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he sort of leans into his police radio and says, "Suspect detained." ANDY BAKER: And then it takes a very disturbing twist
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when Marshall-- and this is much later on that's getting close to midnight on the 6th to the 7th of January.
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He goes and gets some clingfilm. And you can see him unravel the clingfilm. And quite clearly, they've gone now behind a sofa
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and then there's a bed beyond. So you can see the activity on the bed. But When he puts Peter on the floor,
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he's wrapping the clingfilm. And you can hear the breathing that's getting faint from Peter.
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EMILY PENNINK: The point at which Jason Marshall is wrapping clingfilm around Peter's head
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and he's clearly, extremely distressed, clearly terrified for his life. That's an image that it's very hard to forget.
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NARRATOR: It's difficult to imagine what must have been going through the mind of Peter
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Fasoli. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: I think seeing your killer come towards you with that role of clingfilm
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would be absolutely terrifying because you know exactly what's going to happen here.
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You know it's going to be slow. You know it's going to be incredibly unpleasant.
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And the worst thing is you know that there's nothing that you can do about it. So this really is the worst form of torture.
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It's psychological as well as physical. And Peter, sort of muffled voice, saying I can't breathe,
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and he's clearly, extremely distressed, and then he stops moving. ANDY BAKER: And he checks his pulse.
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But then he's using the radio and putting out these obviously to no one these messages of we
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need an ambulance now. He's taking a turn for the worse, and he obviously thinks that he's killed Peter.
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NARRATOR: Marshall lit a cigarette and calmly smoked it before backing away his equipment.
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He then turned his attention to cleaning up the crime scene. Peter's laid out, tied up, handcuffed.
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And Marshall goes over the computer and he starts pulling out wires. He manages to disarm the camera.
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But unbeknownst to him, the audio is still on, So you can hear everything going on.
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You can hear the sound of the lighter being flicked and then this is sort of whoosh as a fire being started.
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And you can hear Jason Marshall just calmly walking away. It's very, very cold and calculated.
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And it's a disturbing-- it's a disturbing image that it's not on camera, but it's quite vivid.
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NARRATOR: Jason Marshall assumed he had killed Peter Fasoli. And in an effort to hide all the evidence,
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he set fire to the bungalow before leaving the scene. The original pathology report from 2013
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ruled that Peter Fasoli had died solely due to smoke inhalation. The new video evidence of Marshall's
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suffocating Peter with clingfilm cast doubt over that conclusion. The asphyxia imposed by Jason Marshall
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was what led Peter to be unconscious, and that is what prevented him from having
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any chance of extracting himself from that flat when the fire was set. ANDY BAKER: The original forensic pathologist
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was asked to look again. He looked at the video, heard the audio, and concluded the cause of death was now suspicious.
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That it was a murder. NARRATOR: The police began the search for Jason Marshall. So he could finally face justice for the murder of Peter Fasoli.
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And a deeper delve into Peter's finances revealed a motive for the murder. ANDY BAKER: The police were piecing together the evidence.
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They identified Jason Marshall. They saw that he stole 780 pounds from Peter's accounts.
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NARRATOR: Detectives finally tracked down Marshall, but the 26-year-old killer was 1,000 miles away in Rome.
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They found that he's in Italy, serving 16 years. And a European arrest warrant was
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issued for the arrest of Jason Marshall for murder Peter Fasoli. EMILY PENNINK: They had to negotiate
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with the Italian police and the Italian authorities, to bring him back to Britain, to face trial.
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It's quite difficult because he's already serving a sentence in Italy. But in the end, the Italians allow him to be
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extradited back to Britain. So he can go on trial at the old Bailey. NARRATOR: Marshall wasn't extradited until February 2017.
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His trial was set for July. The prosecution led by Edward Brown QC was armed with the horrific, yet compelling video evidence.
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EDWARD BROWN QC: It's within the work of a criminal barrister that you see the results of a dreadful crime.
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It was very disturbing footage, very disturbing footage you can imagine. For all of the time, there was a classical radio
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station playing. And this developing violence and domination of Peter, it was completely in contrast with the music that was quietly
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playing all of the time. It was as if there were two utterly different worlds going
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on, one calm, one coming out of the radio of gentle classical music, and then the developing violence
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and domination of this extremely vulnerable man by now completely vulnerable. NARRATOR: The prosecution had to prove that Jason Marshall
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and not the fire had been the main contributor to Peter Fasoli's death. STUART HAMILTON: If Peter had not been unconscious,
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then it is possible that the fire could have overcome him. But of course, if he had not been unconscious,
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he is able to rescue himself. He is able to get to the door. He is able to get out of the property.
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He may still have been affected by the fire, but an unconscious person cannot save themselves.
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And that is key to his death. EDWARD BROWN QC: You also have to prove that the person
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intended to kill or intended to do really serious harm to their victim. Now, the actions of Marshall, particularly the smothering
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and the clingfilm around his face proved beyond doubt that Marshall intended to kill.
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NARRATOR: During the eight day trial, the entire seven hours of webcam evidence was played to the courtroom.
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Journalist Emily Pennink was at the Old Bailey. EMILY PENNINK: It's very frustrating when you see
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someone from the beginning, sort of, you know, playing along with a role play and has no idea
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what's about to happen to him. And there's a point in the video where you can see that the penny has dropped
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and he's really terrified. It's an incredibly upsetting thing for anyone to have to watch.
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And you can see on the faces of the jurors that they were deeply upset by it as well.
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For 12 ordinary members of the public to have to sit through this, they've never seen
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anything of this magnitude. It's incredibly sadistic and violent. They're watching this film and they know
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exactly how it's going to end. This man is going to lose his life. But this is reality.
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This isn't just a movie that they can switch off and detach from. But at the same time, it's really compelling evidence.
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It's really damning evidence. It's evidence that a jury has to say and the evidence speaks for itself.
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NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Jason Marshall told the jury
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that he had a mental blackout from Christmas 2012 until he woke up in an Italian psychiatric hospital
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in February 2013. EDWARD BROWN QC: I've never had such extraordinary evidence available in a trial.
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There was no question that it was him and he had to accept that it was him. He just said I don't remember.
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EMILY PENNINK: He claims that he had no memory of any of it. In cross-examination, he was challenged
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on how he could be suffering from amnesia in Britain. And yet in Italy, he remembered everything and gave a very
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different version of events. ANDY BAKER: I think he learned from that experience
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of trying to pin a murder on an imaginary third person. There's a lot of detail you have to remember.
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It's very complex. So this time, he keeps it simple. He says I don't know. He says nothing.
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And that is a much simpler narrative to stick to. And when he's challenged about it,
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why is this version different from the previous version that you've given? He said, well, in the Italian court, I wasn't under oath.
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And I'm under oath now. And I wouldn't lie under oath. So he's making himself out to be some kind of moral character.
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EMILY PENNINK: And the prosecutor said to him, you just can't get away from it, can you?
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And Marshall by this point, he's almost cracking and he said I'm not trying to get away from it.
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There's this sort of pivotal point where under cross-examination, his lie start to crumble away.
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And the jury who'd spent hours watching the absolutely horrific webcam footage of Marshall
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clearly torturing Peter Fasoli for over a very extended period of time, they realized that he was clearly
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lying to them at this point. NARRATOR: Despite Marshall's claims of amnesia, the 28-year-old was scrutinized by prosecutors about the night
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of Peter Fasoli's death. EDWARD BROWN QC: We took him through all of his actions one
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by one by one and pointed out that any observer would conclude that he was seeking to kill, an exercise really
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in pointing out the obvious to him and getting him to accept it. It wasn't a traumatic time for Marshall
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because he was so calm and determined in what he was doing. It wasn't as if he was under attack.
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Because very, very rarely, some people genuinely do not remember something that's very, very traumatic.
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The mind puts it out of the mind. But this could never have been the case here because of his actions that we could all see.
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EMILY PENNINK: It's very hard to run a mental health defense when you've planned and executed killing so cold
00:39:44
and calculated as that. And also, the fact that he cleaned up afterwards and planned his getaway.
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And it was clearly, you know, if you strip it all down aside from, you know, the role play, the acting,
00:39:59
and the fake police officers, at the end of the day, he killed Peter Fasoli because he wanted his money.
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NARRATOR: On the 9th of August 2017, the jury reached a verdict. Mr. Marshall has been found guilty
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of the murder of Peter Fasoli and also of setting fire to his home address in an attempt
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to cover up his terrible crime. EDWARD BROWN QC: He was found guilty of murder by the jury.
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He was sentenced after a lot of careful thought by the judge, who plainly knew and decided that Marshall was
00:40:36
exceptionally dangerous, something that was confirmed by the psychiatric reports.
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EMILY PENNINK: And he was sentenced to a mandatory life imprisonment. He was also given a minimum term that he had to spend in prison
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of a staggering 39 years, which is a very, very, very, very long sentence for any kind of murder,
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partly because the judge said it was sadistic. And he had tortured his victim and also because it
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was a murder for gain. NARRATOR: Over 4 and 1/2 years after the death of Peter Fasoli, justice had finally
00:41:15
caught up with Jason Marshall. He was possibly the most dangerous man I've either prosecuted or defended.
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He had no empathy, whatsoever, with his victims. And a person who has no empathy for his victims, who
00:41:33
he plans attacks and kills, is truly dangerous. NARRATOR: Marshall is not due for release until 2056.
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But he came very close to escaping justice entirely. ANDY BAKER: If Peter's nephew had never
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been given that hard drive, if he had decided not to plug it into his own computer, if he hadn't looked at that,
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Marshall would never have been found out for the murder he committed of Peter Fasoli.
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And the records would have shown forever that Peter Fasoli had died from an accidental death caused
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by a fire. He would have got away with it. EMILY PENNINK: And if he hadn't have been stopped,
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he would have been a serial killer. He would have carried on. And he wouldn't have stopped until the police
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had caught him. NARRATOR: Marshall was a fantasist with a troubled childhood. And his desperate need to be respected
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led him down a deadly path. He often envisioned himself as a police officer. But in the end, Marshall's entire act
00:42:48
was caught on camera, which led real detectives to his door. By using torture and fear to control his innocent victims,
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Jason Marshall will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the "World's Most Evil Killers."
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