Roberto Calvi - former chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest Catholic bank - was dubbed "God's banker" because of his ties to the Vatican Bank.

On 18 June 1982, he was found hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars bridge in London; bricks had been stuffed in his pockets and he had something like $15,000 in cash on him.

Calvi was on the run, in the months before his death he had been accused by the Italian judiciary of stealing millions being laundered on behalf of the mafia, but nobody knew he had been working with an American bishop, Paul Marcinkus, for years to syphon over $1 billion into offshore accounts.

Who killed God's Banker? Tune in for one of London's most gruesome murder mysteries!

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Domenico Semeraro - aka 'Mimmo' - was only 4'3" tall (130cm), but he had certainly never let that stop him. By day Mimmo was a successful man, by night he had a habit of wandering around Termini Station looking for vulnerable young men, whom he would then take back to his nearby taxidermy lab, where he would provide them with drugs and expensive gifts in exchange for their bodies. In Rome's sex circles he was known as the 'dwarf of Termini station', and at the age of 44 it would all come crashing down on him in a grisly ménage à trois of his own making, a love triangle of transgression, blackmail and death.

Names: Domenico Semeraro, Armando Lovaglio, 'Samantha', Maria Giuseppa Semeraro (Grandma Beast), Lucio Fulci (director)

Image by Nick Magwood from Pixabay

Peet Montzingo Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/M7fLUgpx1Pg?feature=share

In 2005, a phone call to a TV studio brought an unthinkable reality to everyone's attention: after his killing in 1990, Enrico De Pedis, one of Rome's most influential crime bosses had been buried in a very privileged area in a church on quasi-Vatican soil. Was this, as the phone call suggested, connected to the favors De Pedis had done for the Vatican, and his involvement in the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (The "Vatican girl")?

Join me today to learn more about the life and death of Enrico "Renatino" De Pedis, and how much truth there is behind his alleged connection to some of the darkest secrets of the Holy See.

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Father Gabriele Amorth was probably Italy's most well-known, and possibly controversial, EXORCIST.

Join me in my first ever interview as we explore this mysterious figure, and I ask my husband-to-be about his childhood experience with Father Amorth and the Catholic rite of exorcism.

Tune in to learn all about the process of casting out demons, and the most shocking revelations from exorcists all around the world.

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Magliana is a neighborhood in the southwest of Rome that was once home to the infamous, and highly romanticized, criminal organization by the same name. In this episode, we look at the crime that brought it to life, the kidnapping of a Duke (Massimiliano Grazioli) on November 7th 1977.

Names: Maurizio Abbatino (Kinky), Franco Giuseppucci ("The baker")

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On Sunday, November 11th 2007, a man by the name of Gabriele Sandri, a promising youth with his whole life ahead of him, was killed by an overzealous police officer. He was only 26 years old when an absurd sequence of events led to a meaningless tragedy that never should have happened.

PART 2

In this atypical episode we discuss what the FBI, the CBI and a number of other experts have said about one the most infamous ransom notes in America.

Sources:

"Listen Carefully! Truth and Evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey Case" by True Crime Detectives Guild

https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Carefully-Evidence-JonBenet-Ramsey-ebook/dp/B01NCKGIHV

"JonBenet: Inside the Murder Investigation" by Steve Thomas, Don Davis

https://www.amazon.com/JonBenet-Inside-Ramsey-Murder-Investigation-ebook/dp/B003JMFATW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OI3YG5BFZA5C&keywords=ramsey+steve+thomas&qid=1680464433&s=digital-text&sprefix=ramsey+steve+thomas%2Cdigital-text%2C169&sr=1-1