Peter Fasoli | Truth About My Murder | FilmRise True Crime | Forensic Files

[dramatic music] [weapon fires] - When a murder's committed, it's always a race against time
to find the truth, to separate fact from fiction, to catch the killer, and to make sure that justice is served.
What happens when the truth vanishes with the victim? I'm Dr. Richard Shepherd and I've spent my entire career
as a Forensic Pathologist performing nearly 23,000 autopsies, including on some of the most high profile
cases of recent times. I've learned that the dead don't hide the truth and they never lie.
Through me, you'll be hearing directly from the victim, from a state-of-the-art laboratory
with groundbreaking technology that uses digitally scanned sample bodies. I'll be investigating a series of intriguing murders
where from the victim's bodies, I'll be revealing to you the truth behind those horrific crimes.
[camera shutter clicking] [dramatic music] [sirens wail in distance] [fire crackling over dramatic music]
Late at night on the 6th of January, 2013, 58-year-old Peter Fasoli was found dead in the burnt out
remains of the small bungalow in London where he lived alone. [dramatic music] - That evening, neighbors had been alerted
to a fire alarm at Peter's house [sirens wailing] [dramatic music continues] and called the fire brigade who came
and extinguished a house fire at his address. Sadly, within the house, Peter was found to have died.
During a subsequent investigation, it was concluded that the house had probably caught light due
to a 40 light bulb fitting that had fallen down onto the bedding and caused the fire.
- [Dr. Shepherd] A report by the fire service said it was an accident, but was it?
For almost two years after the fire, a silent witness laid dormant, waiting to be found.
While the extra ordinary true story of how Peter really died lay hidden within his body.
[dramatic music] Peter Fasoli was born to an Italian family in Manchester where he lived most of his life,
but he'd moved to London in 2012, where at the age of 58 he lived by himself. - He lived in a small bungalow in Northolt
in West London. [gentle dramatic music] He worked as a sort of IT consultant sitting in front
of a computer at home all day effectively, which meant that his social interactions were quite limited.
Mainly he met people over the internet. - Peter Fasoli was a quiet man, kept himself to himself,
lived his own life, no long-term relationships, reached out online to make friendships
and to arrange dates. By all accounts, was a happy individual living his life the way he wanted to live it.
- He didn't have an awful lot of contact with the outside world, and he didn't have an awful lot
of very close relatives living nearby either. So he was fairly isolated from the community,
but he was the kind of person who did crave interaction with people. He would quite often seek out young gay men for company
and also for sexual encounters as well. - We know that Peter had made use of an online dating app to meet others.
- [Dr. Shepherd] It was on one of these dating apps that in January, 2013, he met a man calling himself Gabriel,
who he invited to his house. - They'd arranged to meet at his bungalow in Northolt
on the evening of the 6th of January. According to the messages had gone to and fro,
Peter was expecting some sort of sexual encounter. It seemed as if the person he'd connected
with on this website fitted the bill. They seemed to be into the same things, and this person who went by the name of Gabriel had said,
well, I'm gonna come and we're going to engage in this sort of role play activity.
So that was what Peter Fasoli was expecting. - [Dr. Shepherd] They agreed that Gabriel would come
to Peter's house at 7:00 PM on the 6th of January. - On the morning of the 7th of January,
Peter received some text messages from Gabriel. [ominous music] Gabriel was apologizing for not having turned up
to their appointment the night before and exploring Peter's availability for future meetups.
- And then some more messages later on saying, oh, why are you ignoring me? So clearly something has gone wrong
according to these messages, [ominous music continues] - [Dr. Shepherd] But Peter never read these messages.
- Very late on 6th of January going into the early hours of the seventh, Peter Fasoli's fire alarm goes off
and the emergency services are called. He's found in the house, collapsed, and he's pronounced dead.
Initially, it does seem that the fire was an accident. - There'd been a initial investigation
that identified nothing suspicious. - The death goes through the usual process. There's a inquest which confirms
that Peter's death was an accident. - There was a post-mortem examination of Peter's body to see
what it could reveal about his final moments. Peter's charred body was found in his bungalow,
and at the time it was thought that there were no suspicious circumstances, but the cause of death still had to be determined.
I've examined many fire deaths in my career, and I know that within a domestic fire, temperatures up
to 800 degrees Celsius, that's 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, are easily achieved. So the hot gases themselves can cause death,
but the crucial things that kill are the smoke and the fumes. These cases cause problems for any pathologist
who has to examine them. They have to consider a whole series of things. They've got to establish the identity, the cause of death,
but particularly they've got to try and work out whether the person was alive at the time
the fire was burning. We look into the air passages, the trachea, the bronchi, and the lungs, and this image shows
what you find at postmortem, the black soot and debris distributed throughout those air passages.
And if we can find soot and heat damage in the airways, we know that the person was alive at the time the fire was burning.
[dramatic music] The evidence suggested there was no doubt that Peter was still breathing when the fire had started,
and it seemed that the cause of death was clear. - Peter had some health issues, he had a heart condition
and at times needed the support of oxygen to help him breathe and get about easily.
The conclusion was that Peter had inhaled some smoke during the initial stages of the fire, that
that had triggered problems with his heart condition and that he had died as a result of a heart attack.
- That is certainly what the police decided based on what the fire brigade was saying.
So really they didn't take things any further. They didn't look at the wider circumstances
of Peter's death. [dramatic music] - [Dr. Shepherd] After the inquest in August, 2013,
the investigation was closed, but there was something the police didn't know. In the hours after Peter's death, his money was being spent
by someone else. - So the really curious thing about this is that Peter Fasoli dies in a house fire
and he's found in the early hours of January the seventh, the next day, his credit card is used
to buy a ticket from London to Rome. On January the 11th, a man called Jason Marshall boards a flight
using that ticket. - [Dr. Shepherd] But who was Jason Marshall and how had he got his hands on Peter's credit cards?
- This case was one of the most unusual that I've ever dealt with. The true facts hadn't been exposed in the initial
investigations. [dramatic music settles] - The charred body of Peter Fasoli had been found in his house
in Northolt West London. An inquest in August, 2013 had concluded that it was an accident caused by a faulty light bulb
and the case was closed, but the body still had secrets to tell and the truth of what happened was yet to be discovered.
- Four days after Peter Fasoli died in a house fire, a man called Jason Marshall boarded a flight to Rome
from Gatwick Airport. He'd used a credit card in the name of Peter Fasoli to buy the flight,
and he also had cash that he'd withdrawn from that account as well. [dramatic music]
- [Dr. Shepherd] Not long after arriving in Italy, Jason started using online dating apps to find gay men.
- So within days of touching down in Rome, Jason Marshall is busy setting up new connections online.
Jason had set himself up on dating websites and arranged to meet older gay guys and arranged to meet them through these dating websites
for sexual encounters. He meets a guy called Vincenzo Iale. - [Dr. Shepherd] 67-year-old Vincenzo Iale
worked as a tour guide in Rome and lived in a small town outside the city called Torvaianica Alta.
Just over two weeks after arriving in Rome, Jason was on his way to Vincenzo's house.
[dramatic music] Vincenzo may have been expecting a sexual encounter, but Jason had something else in mind.
- Jason was not interested in sexual meetings. He just wanted to steal their credit card or cash.
Every time he was searching this kind of victim, and every time he approached to them for
a sexual meeting, every time with just one purpose, steal their credit cards, steal cash,
extorting numbers and bank details, and then killing his victims. - [Dr. Shepherd] Several days after his encounter
with Jason Marshall, Vincenzo Iale's body was discovered. - Vincenzo was found completely nude on the floor.
One week, seven days later, the homicide. Because he lived alone. - This murder scene was over a week old
and in forensics, time is of the essence. With the passage of time, vital clues such as the DNA
of the killer can be lost. And in terms of the injuries, it can be harder and harder to determine which
of the injuries actually was the cause of death. Decomposition will have started to set in on Vincenzo,
and it's usually first seen in the right lower abdomen over the cecum and the appendix area of the body
as a green discoloration of the skin that gradually spreads over the entire body.
But the pathologist in this case was well able to identify the numerous stab wounds to the chest
of Vincenzo, and he could also see that he had been tortured and the crime scene showed that it's been dragged
around the flat, evidence of the physicality of the murderer. Despite the severity of the injuries, they were not
what killed Vincenzo. The pathologist found that Vincenzo had been strangled by a ligature, and the mark on his neck was entirely
consistent with the use of an electrical cord. Ligature strangulation causes pressure to the neck
and the blood vessels and airways inside the neck. It causes pressure to these red carotid arteries
that are taking blood up to the brain and it causes pressure on the jugular veins which are
taking blood away. And so the brain is starved of oxygen when those blood vessels are pressed,
but it can also lead to compression of the airways above and below the larynx, stopping air entering the lungs,
and so meaning there's loss of oxygen in the bloodstream itself. Now, the time it takes for someone to die
with ligature strangulation is very variable. Depending on the ligature and the pressure applied, it can be very quick
or it can be delayed over a prolonged period of time, depending how much pressure is applied.
[dramatic music] On the very day Vincenzo was found murdered. Jason Marshall was on his way to meet his next victim.
[dramatic music continues] - Within days, he moves on to another guy. This time a chap called Umberto Gismondi, who lives in Rome.
- He met him on a social network site for sexual meetings. The victim invited Jason in his home
and they had the dinner together. [knife chops] [dramatic music continues] They go to the bedroom.
Jason not seem so interested to have a sexual meeting. [dramatic music continues]
- [Dr. Shepherd] Armed with a truncheon, Jason launched a terrifying attack on Umberto Gismondi.
First he incapacitated his victim with pepper spray, then bound and gagged him and attempted to suffocate him with a cushion.
And he made it clear to Umberto that this was not the first time he had carried out such an attack.
- Jason showed the picture on his phone and said to the victim, "Watch this picture.
Watch this man, I killed him one month ago. If you don't give me the PIN number of your credit cards, I'll kill you too."
- There's an effect whereby people become more desensitized as time goes on, and if they commit one harmful act,
maybe it's easier for 'em to commit another one and another one, and then maybe they realize
that they're actually kind of enjoying this and that keeps them going. [gentle dramatic music]
- Jason was a serial killer because every time he made the same actions. First of all,
victims are the same, homosexual, alone, and they're old men. Why old men? Because Jason is a strong, young,
tall, powerful man. And so in case of struggle, he could win against them. - Very fortunately,
the victim's neighbors hear the commotion and raise the alarm, and Mr. Gismondi is rescued.
[eerie music] - [Dr. Shepherd] Umberto Gismondi was very lucky to have been saved, and he survived.
Jason fled the scene, but Italian police tracked his movements using his phone and he was apprehended on a bus
a few hours after the attack. He was arrested and taken to a jail in Rome where he was
provided with a defense lawyer. - I was the court appointed lawyer. In my life, I will not have a case so bizarre.
I met Jason for the first time when he was in jail. He said, "I am innocent, Francesco, I am innocent."
Jason was very convinced and Jason was very believable, and I thought, oh, maybe he's really innocent.
But what he said to me was not supported by the facts. - [Dr. Shepherd] When Jason had been arrested,
he had fresh blood on him and he had credit cards and a gate key of his first Italian victim, Vincenzo Iale.
He was also found in possession of pepper spray, a fake pistol and a counterfeit badge from the British embassy.
- Jason said to me, "I work for the British Embassy, I work for MI5," but it was unbelievable.
It was not credible. [dramatic music] - [Dr. Shepherd] In 2014, Jason Marshall stood trial in Italy
for the attempted murder of Umberto Gismondi and the murder of Vincenzo Iale. - During the final part of [indistinct],
Jason want to speak, and I remember that Jason said to the judge, "You can't judge me
because only God can judge me." [dramatic music continues] - [Dr. Shepherd] In July, 2014, he was found guilty
and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Now he was confined to an Italian prison cell,
Jason Marshall could not kill again, but the question being asked was, had he killed before?
Shocking evidence was about to come to light. - This case is back to front really,
in that the suspect was locked up for murder before we even knew there was a murder.
I've investigated many cases which have strange aspects to them, but very rarely do you find a murder set to music.
[dramatic music settles] [dramatic music] - [Dr. Shepherd] On the 6th of January, 2013,
58-year-old Peter Fasoli had met a man called Gabriel on the internet and invited him back to his home in West London.
But later that night, his house was on fire and Peter was found dead. An inquest concluded that it was an accident caused
by a faulty light bulb, and the case was closed. The body had revealed Peter was alive during the fire,
but there was more to tell. An all-seeing witness was waiting, ready to reveal a shocking secret.
- There is an investigation and it does confirm that Peter's death was an accident.
So, you know, the family are obviously shocked and grieving, but since it was just a tragic accident,
they move on with their lives. Peter Fasoli's family are not particularly local.
His belongings what's left of them, what's not been, you know, completely destroyed by the fire in his house
collected up and they're stored by a friend of the family up in Yorkshire. - [Dr. Shepherd] It was not until almost two years
after his death that evidence emerged revealing the truth of what really happened that night.
- Peter Fasoli's nephew decides that he'd be quite interested in going through some
of Peter's effects, which have been stored up in Yorkshire. So he goes to have a look.
He's particularly interested because he knows that Peter had a shared interest with him in his family tree.
So he thinks that there might be something on the computer that Peter had in his house
that might give him a bit more information about the family history. So he goes to Yorkshire
and collects the hard drive from the computer and takes it home with him and sets it up so he can kind
of have a look and see what's on there. [suspenseful music] What he finds is not anything to do with the family tree.
He makes a very shocking discovery of a series of videos that Peter Fasoli had made initially
meeting guys for sex, and it had been filmed on his webcam. - [Dr. Shepherd] But what he sees on the final video
shows something else entirely. Shocked by what he had discovered, Peter's nephew immediately handed the video
to the local police. - We received a call from West Yorkshire Police with some really significant information
that was gonna take the whole case into a new direction. So once we got back to London
and reviewed the video that Peter's nephew had found, it was really shocking and quite a harrowing watch to be honest.
It happened that Peter had a kind of hidden CCTV camera that was connected to his laptop.
It was effectively a recording of the events of the evening of his uncle's death
and showed that Peter had been visited by another male. [suspenseful music] The man in the video is wearing a clothing
that clearly intending to portray himself as plain clothes, law enforcement of some description, jeans, bomber jacket,
T-shirt under that. When he takes the jacket off at times, you can see that he's got a holster
with whether it's handcuffs in one slot, pretends to have a firearm. I think there's a radio clip to it as well.
And if you were left in any doubt at that point, he's also wearing an ID badge on a chain around his neck,
clearly intending to portray himself as law enforcement. The events ran on for several hours,
but for the vast majority of the time entirely consensual. There'd been different role plays with the suspect,
a role playing either a police officer or a an agent or a spy or whatever was going through his mind,
but was certainly asserting a position of power and authority over Peter who was quite willingly submissive
to that power and authority. [handcuffs clicks] [dramatic music continues] - It was like a role play taken to extremes.
There was a role certainly, and it was a powerful role. [suspenseful music continues]
A dominating role, a role that had authority and also access to specialized procedures and equipment.
But the play part of the role play, play itself can serve a function even for adults.
It can give them a taste of that identity that they're aspiring to. Whilst they're acting out this role,
life might seem different, the situation might seem different to how they are in their
usual everyday life as themselves. - [Dr. Shepherd] But as the hours passed, something changed.
- It was only right at the very end when things took a more sinister turn. - The young man in the video starts becoming quite violent.
He threatens him with a knife repeatedly. He also injects him with a needle more than once.
He really, really becomes quite violent and aggressive and he's clearly enjoying it.
He's clearly taking some sadistic pleasure in bringing Peter Fasoli down so low and humiliating him.
- Jason Marshall was calm and collected throughout. There didn't seem to be any agitation, any panic.
It's as if he kept on playing the role. - And there's a point in the video that I remember quite clearly actually, where it seems like
the penny drops and Peter going from being quite excited and energized about this kind of role play.
It suddenly dawns on him, it's not a game for him anymore, and he actually becomes very frightened for real.
- [Dr. Shepherd] Eventually the torture escalated to a point of no return. - The suspect took a roll of cling film
and wrapped it round Peter's head, causing him to struggle to breathe and suffocate
and then put a plastic bag over his head causing Peter to fall to the floor. - [Dr. Shepherd] Without realizing it,
Peter Fasoli had recorded his own brutal murder. - This is a video showing Peter Fasoli's death
at the hands of an extremely violent sadistic killer. [dramatic music] - The cuffs were removed, the bag
and the cling film were removed. Shortly after that, the video then shows the suspect clearing up
the scene behind him, and then the video is cut, but the sound continues. And what can be heard is the sound
of probably some accelerant being poured around the flat [lighter clicks] and the sound of that being ignited.
And it's within seconds of those sounds that you then hear the smoke alarm, which alerted the neighbors who then subsequently,
as we know, called the fire brigade. - Throughout the video of Peter Fasoli's torture
and ultimate death, there is a sort of weird situation because he'd put on classic FM in the background,
you know, for this encounter, I wouldn't say romantic particularly, but it's an encounter of sorts
with Jason Marshall and it is very bizarre because you hear Myleene Klass talking about classical music
in the background, and that is on throughout this horrendous violent situation that's unfolding in his house.
- The detail of this remains with me today. It was unbelievably shocking. It was a showing of such determination,
such calculation, planning, evil almost. And seldom do you see in a domestic context
footage of someone's death through evil crime. [dramatic music] - [Dr. Shepherd] The truth of what happened
that night had been hidden in Peter's body all along, waiting to reveal itself, but the body had never been asked.
A body may never lie, but sometimes it's really important to make sure that you ask the right questions.
We know that Peter was still fighting for his life after Jason had set fire to his house
and the initial cause of death was inhalation of fire fumes in association with his heart complaint.
But the major contributing factor to Peter's death, despite all he'd endured, was clearly suffocation.
And suffocation occurs when the external air passages the mouth and the nose are blocked
so the air can't enter the body and that will deprive the body of oxygen and eventually result in brain death
and the death of the individual. And we know from the video that Peter was struggling
and fighting to breathe, and we also know that the cling film was removed and replaced several times,
but that when the fire was burning, Peter was still alive and struggling to breathe, which accounts for the soot
that was present in his airway at the time of the first postmortem examination. And it's clear that wrapping cling film around Peter's head
by Jason was intended to kill or at least cause serious harm. - What had been thought to have been an accidental death
as a result of a house fire had now turned into something much more significant.
This was now a homicide investigation. [dramatic music settles] [suspenseful music]
- [Dr. Shepherd] In January, 2013, Peter Fasoli invited a man calling himself Gabriel to his home
after they had met on a dating website. The next morning, Peter was found dead after his house caught fire.
[suspenseful music continues] Almost two years after his death, shocking footage was discovered
that revealed he had in fact been tortured and murdered. But although detectives had the footage, they still had
to identify the man responsible. - What really goes through your mind then is that you have an absolute passion
to do the right thing for the family. The whole point of doing my job is to find answers
for the family and what becomes an absolute priority and a real motivation piece is to identify
who the suspect is and preventing causing any more harm to anybody else. [dramatic music]
- [Dr. Shepherd] But just who was this sadistic internet predator? [door knocking]
- They had an image of this person who'd been with Peter Fasoli on the night of his death.
They had him on the video, but obviously at that stage they didn't know who he was.
They then have to follow this trail of evidence and try and find out who the person is,
who's clearly, you know, been extremely violent. [dramatic music continues] - First thing that we had to do was look through all
of the video to try and identify any clues or anything that would help us with the identity of this suspect.
So that involved hours and hours of going through minute by minute, almost frame
by frame at times in terms of what had happened in the house. Is there any telltale signs that the suspect's giving out?
Is there anything that he says? Any information, any use of names, anything like that?
[dramatic music continues] At one point during the evening, the suspect had demanded Peter's credit card,
had demanded the PIN number for his bank card, and had gone away from the house for a period
of time and then returned. This opened up the consideration that the murder was financially motivated.
[suspenseful music] When we looked at his finances in more detail, what we identified was that the days following his death,
his bank details were used to purchase some flights from an airline. And then inquiries with that airline identified
who had bought the tickets and in what name those tickets had been purchased. We established from the airline
that the account had been used to buy tickets to Italy in the name of Jason Marshall.
- [Dr. Shepherd] So the man Peter had met who called himself Gabriel, was in fact Jason Marshall.
Jason was already known to the Italian police, but not to the UK detectives. A quick search revealed that Jason Marshall had spent most
of his life on the wrong side of the law. - And when we did some police background checks,
it was found that he was known to the police for, amongst other things, impersonating a police officer.
So when you look back at the investigation and what we'd gathered so far, the whole evening involved role play
and role play in law enforcement, and here we've identified the name of a suspect who's got convictions for the very same thing.
- There'll be some people who feel the need or desire to dress up and pretend to be a policeman
or an ambulance man or a fireman, but they don't go on and kill somebody playing out that role.
[suspenseful music] - You can probably fairly describe Jason Marshall as a lifelong fantasist.
You know, his life is to a certain extent, a bit of a mystery. He claims that his parents were both drug addicts
and he grew up in East London. His obsession with living a fantasy really comes from his desire
to block out the harsh realities of life and also give him the kind of status that he's craved.
And that's really where his obsession with police officers and anyone in a uniform comes from.
Because he puts on a uniform, he becomes a different person and the kind of person that people respect.
But in reality, his life is quite a sad one. He makes money as a male escort, he becomes increasingly unhappy
and he's taking out his anger and frustration on these older guys that he's meeting
for sexual encounters. And there comes a point where he moves down a very, very dark path.
And that's really the point at which unfortunately, his life collides with Peter Fasoli's.
[suspenseful music] - [Dr. Shepherd] Jason Marshall's online profile on dating apps
gave a chilling clue to his state of mind. When he had met up with Peter Fasoli the night before he died,
Jason had used the online name Gabriel. - He imagined that he was the Archangel Gabriel
and he's creating this online persona. I mean, a lot of people don't use their own names
on dating websites. That's not unusual. But the fact that not only has he created this online persona,
he carries it over into real life and carries it over into this very different and extreme character that he's created.
So he goes from a position where he's less powerful, he's working as a male escort,
but because he's created this complete alter ego where he is in charge and he is the one with the handcuffs
and the police radio and making the arrests, and he's a big man, he's turning the tables on people
who want him for his services. - [Dr. Shepherd] Having identified Jason Marshall,
police now had to bring him to justice. - The next challenge really was where is Jason Marshall now?
And some fairly quick research using the internet and identified to my horror that Jason Marshall was in Italy serving a custodial
sentence, having killed a male over there in the weeks that followed the death of Peter Fasoli.
It was a moment really where I had to temper my kind of enthusiasm and joy that we'd identified who this person was
and we were gonna make some progress with a real kind of somber moment of reflection in terms of, you know,
had there been opportunities missed, what if things had been done differently? What was the consequences
of the delay in identifying this offense? But it was never lost on me. In those kind of early moments, the kind of
what if questions around those victims in Italy. - [Dr. Shepherd] The video of Peter's murder
shed light on the murder of Vincenzo Iale in Italy. People are murdered in all sorts
of different ways, and some crime scenes are really horrific. The pathologist found that Vincenzo had been strangled
by a ligature, and in fact, the crime scene showed that Vincenzo had been dragged around the flat,
evidence of the physicality of the murderer. But in Peter's case, the fire had changed everything.
A fire means that a lot of valuable evidence will have been lost, and there was evidence that he had also been tortured.
The burning of the body had obscured any evidence of bruising or the injection sites,
which made them much harder to see, and there was no evidence of suspicion. And it's not possible
to determine if death occurred deliberately or by accident. But now the evidence proved without a shadow of a doubt
that something very sinister had happened. After four and a half years, Jason Marshall would finally face justice
for the brutal murder of Peter Fasoli. [dramatic music] - And it was early 2017 when Jason Marshall was finally
extradited back to the UK. He was met by my officers and arrested on UK soil. And at that point, the prosecution for the murder
of Peter Fasoli started in earnest really and led to the subsequent trial. And that's probably the first time that there's a real sense
that we are now starting to deliver justice for Peter's family. Jason has to answer for his actions and in a UK court,
and he can't hide behind the Italian prison cell bars anymore. [dramatic music] - [Dr. Shepherd] In July, 2017,
Jason Marshall finally stood to trial in London. - It was an extraordinary trial at the Old Bailey.
Extraordinary because of the material that the evidence, I've done many serious cases,
but I have never seen footage showing the crime in such a calculated, cold, powerful way.
I've never come across that before. It was very disturbing and it must have been very disturbing for the jury.
- [Dr. Shepherd] In court, Jason Marshall claimed he had amnesia and couldn't remember anything from that night.
- The purpose of the cross-examination was to show that his amnesia, as he claimed, was a lie
and there was quite a bit of material, such as what he did afterwards when he sent a text
to Peter's phone, the text message is so obviously purposeful and thinking and calculated
and is not consistent with amnesia of an event at all. Leaving aside what he then went to do, getting himself
to Italy and killing one and trying to kill another. - His behavior in the witness box was pretty
strange to say the least. He'd run out of excuses and he'd run out of stories and the fantasy was quickly unraveling
and it just didn't hold. It just didn't hold for him anymore. So there was nowhere for him to go.
- [Dr. Shepherd] The evidence on the video was damning. - Having this piece of footage meant
that Jason Marshall couldn't deny that he was there. He couldn't deny what had happened
and it would made it extremely hard for him to wriggle out of it because it's all there, you know, you only have
to watch what he did to realize that this was an extremely sadistic and cruel act of violence against a defenseless man.
- Marshall is an extremely dangerous man. I think he knows, he knew what he was doing.
He wanted to do it. He wanted to kill. He never expressed any true remorse at all.
He was determined to do what he did and he did it again and he did it again. And I don't think he's someone who
is capable of remorse. [gentle bright music] - One of the most important things at this moment,
of course, is to get back in touch with Peter's family, explain what we had found
and explain the process we had made at every single stage of the investigation. It's critical to me,
and I think it's really important that the family understand what's happening, ultimately,
that's what I'm there for, is to find the answers that the family are looking for.
And if I can find a way to keep them up to speed and up to date with the investigation
and the progress that we're making, then that's really, really important. - [Dr. Shepherd] The jury took just 75 minutes
to reach a unanimous verdict, and Jason Marshall was sentenced to life with a minimum term
of 39 years. - He will spend pretty much the rest of his life in prison. He tortured Peter Fasoli for seven hours
before killing him, and that made it an even more serious murder. He took sadistic pleasure in it and
after he was caught, he showed absolutely no remorse. - Serial killer Jason Marshall clearly had the intent
to kill, and if it hadn't been for the discovery of that video, we'd never have known how Peter Fasoli met his tragic end.
In the end, the answers were hidden in Peter's body all along, but no one had asked the right questions.
We must always be highly suspicious in the autopsy room and make sure we find the cause of death,
not just a cause of death. [dramatic music continues] [dramatic music continues]
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Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd investigates the murder of Peter Fasoli by Jason Marshall. After killing Peter, Marshall then decided to torch his home in order to cover it up.

In The Truth About My Murder, Dr. Richard Shepherd showcases a state-of-the-art digital autopsy table featuring digitally scanned sample bodies to investigate a series of intriguing murders where the victims' bodies help reveal the truth behind horrific crimes.

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Brief Summary

Peter Fasoli's murder was uncovered through shocking video evidence, leading to the capture of serial killer Jason Marshall.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Peter Fasoli. Peter Fasoli's death was initially ruled an accident, but secrets lay hidden in his body.
Jason Marshall's Dark Intentions. After arriving in Italy, Jason Marshall targets vulnerable men for theft and murder.
Trial and Confession. Jason Marshall's trial reveals chilling details of his crimes and mindset.
Shocking Discovery of Hidden Videos. Peter's nephew uncovers videos revealing the events leading to his uncle's death.
The Sinister Role Play. The role play between Peter and his visitor escalates into violence.
The Sinister Turn. The young man in the video becomes increasingly violent, revealing a dark side.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

The dead don’t hide the truth and they never lie.

Dr. Richard Shepherd on the nature of forensic investigation.

0:34WatchFeb 8, 2026

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