TELEPHONE OPERATOR: Emergency, which service?
What's the address of the fire?
MALE NEWS REPORTER: A killer who thought he'd covered his tracks
and fooled investigators.
Is it possible to get away with murder?
What does a killer do after committing
the most heinous of crimes?
They carry on as normal and hide in plain sight...
He set fire to that property and walked out.
He came across like you could pass him in the street,
he could be anybody.
..or go on the run.
We've gotta find this man.
We need to identify him.
How do the actions of a killer after their crime
influence the police investigation?
By focusing on the aftermath we unpick the mindset of a killer...
understand the motive
and reveal what the killer did next.
Peter Fasoli grows up in greater Manchester
to an Italian family of three siblings.
He was a character, always having a dry sense of humour.
He was the one that helped me ride my bike for the first time.
He was seven years older than me.
Was always in the kitchen even when mum's making things,
especially when my mum was doing cherry pie,
he used to always try and help
but then he used to help himself to a bit when no-one was looking.
He were a laugh, you know, he was alright.
He just got on well.
He was always quite happy and bubbly,
always had something to do.
Would tell us all what he was up to and where he was going.
ANNE: He was always on the go, always joking.
You couldn't say anything bad about him.
Any problems, you know,
he'd give you his last penny to help anybody.
You know, he was always there for anyone.
At the age of 58 Peter moves from Manchester
to the quiet suburban neighbourhood of Northolt
on the outskirts of London.
I mean, down this street we're quite neighbourly and friendly
and we know most of the people, so yeah,
there is a good community spirit round here.
I've lived here 60 years.
It's pleasant, you know,
most people say good morning, evening
and do help if you get stuck in something.
Peter never married or started a family
and lived alone in a semi-detached bungalow.
Although he enjoyed the solitary life
he remained a friendly face in the community.
And as a computer technician by trade
was always ready to lend a helping hand.
Peter always loved computers from day one,
anything electronic.
He was always on the go fixing anything,
anyone had a problem they ask him and he'd mend it.
He didn't even have to blink
he just could do it blindfolded if you say.
He always just knew what to do.
And as a single gay man it was his computer
Peter turned to to meet new people.
But in the world of online dating not everyone is as they seem.
The residents of Rubens road are awoken by a raging fire.
(SIREN WAILS)
TELEPHONE OPERATOR: Emergency, which service?
What's the address of the fire?
The authorities are alerted
and on the scene in a matter of minutes.
I was upstairs in bed and all the sirens
and what not and I thought
what the devil's happening out there,
it wasn't one fire engine it was about three of four.
All I remember is seeing smoke and thinking that,
"Oh, someone's having like, "I don't know, like a barbecue
"and it's getting blacker and blacker."
Neighbours soon realised the burning house
is that belonging to Peter Fasoli.
There was police there, there was ambulance,
the fire brigade was still there for a good couple of hours
and it was just awful.
Like just completely burnt like black
and not how you remember seeing the house.
When fire officers enter the property
they find Peter inside
but they quickly realise he's already dead.
They rang me when... I just broke down.
I just couldn't believe it.
You just wouldn't think, you know, you're chatting the other day
and know I'm not gonna see him again.
It's horrible.
Authorities inspect the house looking for any clues
to establish a cause of death and what started the fire.
What police would be looking for is, was there a break in?
Are there signs of any break in?
Anything about the victim, was there anything suspicious?
Did any of the neighbours hear anything?
The post-mortem results come back clear
suggesting nothing out of the ordinary.
When a pathologist and a forensic pathologist
come to a case you're given a background,
you're told what the circumstances
are as they're understood at the time
and that informs your investigation.
On the face of it, this looked very simple.
There is evidence that Mr Fasoli has inhaled smoke
so he was alive when that fire was burning.
We have an older man
with underlying disease in the heart,
we have a house fire with all of the fumes
and the stress that would produce
and conclusion, a very reasonable conclusion
would be that that man has died
as a result of a combination of smoke inhalation
and the heart disease he has.
Next, the fire brigade make their assessment.
Well, there was an investigation into that fire
once the body had been discovered
and it was fairly swiftly determined to be an accidental fire,
an accidental death and essentially the case was closed.
We know that Peter's got a heart problem,
there was no disruption in the property to speak of,
there was no break in,
there was no-one calling 999
because they could hear Peter screaming.
So, all those factors together and with the fire brigade,
you know, suspecting there was electrical fault
with a light bulb
then that was the natural conclusion
that Peter had died as the result of an accident.
MALE NEWS REPORTER: Investigators concluded Peter Fasoli,
a 58-year-old with heart problems had died in an accidental blaze.
As news breaks,
Peter's family and friends were surprised
by the circumstances of his death but had to accept the verdict.
There was nothing I could do about it
and I had to just get on dealing
with all the funeral 'cause fires happen
and they did say they thought it was an electrical fault
and that's all they could give us at the time.
Very strange.
I've never seen anything like it before
and I remember thinking,
how did it happen?
I just remember walking past with the dogs in the morning
thinking how sad it is.
Um, you know, and not really knowing what had happened,
just that there'd been a fire and the chap wasn't there anymore.
The neighbours had good reason to be suspicious.
Almost two years after his uncle's death,
Peter's nephew Chris had boxed up some of Peter's belongings
which had been salvaged from the fire.
One of these items was Peter's hard drive.
I looked through the computer
expecting to find the research he'd done on the family tree,
what I found was a video file
that seemed to take up the majority of space on the hard drive.
I'd opened the video file and it just seemed to be
some camera footage of Peter
just sort of sat in his house watching Tele, just eating tea.
But when Chris looked at the date of the video file
he notices something important.
I'd looked at the time stamp on the file
and found it was the date of the fire
and I sort of flicked through hoping
just to find about nearer to the end of the file,
maybe what caused the fire and an explanation.
Was it the light bulb?
Was it something else in the flat?
But what I soon sort of found out,
there was someone else that had been in the flat that day with him.
Chris had discovered web cam footage
showing his uncle was not alone on the night he died.
Who is this person?
And could he know more about the fire
that occurred that night in Peter's flat?
Almost two years after the death of his uncle,
Peter Fasoli, at a house fire, his nephew Chris
has just seen web cam footage
revealing his uncle was not alone
on the night he died.
As he walked in sort of he spoke casually with Peter.
They appeared to know each other and appear to have met before.
Chris skipped to the end of the file to see
if it would reveal clues to the fire which killed his uncle.
What sort of seemed odd on there to
where I'd skipped to towards the end of the file
was sort of Peter's flat, um, like it'd been ransacked.
There was pieces of his stereo sat on the sofa,
pieces of computer that had clearly been moved.
I sort of began to skip around the file trying to see
what had sort of happened.
Maybe there was sort of a burglary or something had gone on.
Immediately Chris was suspicious and contacted the police.
Who was this man and did he know
more about his uncle's untimely death?
What police don't know yet is that there's a sinister link
between the death of Peter Fasoli and 1,000 miles away in Rome.
Italian authorities are called to the home of a 67-year-old
retired tour guide Vincenzo Iale in a seaside village
on the outskirts of Rome.
Neighbours had become concerned when Vincenzo's light
remained on in his home for an entire week.
(SIREN WAILS)
But when police arrive they walk into an horrific scene.
Vincenzo has been murdered.
Italy correspondent Michael Day is hot on the case.
I was in the Foreign Press Association
in Rome one morning and I heard some journalists
discussing something, it sounded quite interesting.
A police officer, a Carabinieri officer,
described the cord tied around the person's neck
and he talked about the ferocity of the crime.
He seemed quite shocked by what he saw
and he said other officers were as well.
The results of the post-mortem revealed
Vincenzo was killed a week before his body was found.
After Mr Iale's post-mortem examination
it was clear that he had died
of a homicidal ligature strangulation.
He had stab wounds but they hadn't really contributed
and his cause of death
was given as asphyxia due to ligature strangulation.
When Italian investigators examine the scene of crime
they find a robbery has taken place.
His bank cards had been stolen,
subsequently cash was taken from his account
so it appears that his pin number had been given up
which led investigators to think he probably
may have been tortured as well.
But with no sign of a break in, did Vincenzo know his killer?
JANE: My name's Dr Jane Monkton-Smith
and I'm a forensic criminologist
so my work is focussed on homicide prevention.
So, I look at patterns and behaviours of killers to see
if we can intervene and stop them.
Well, the first thing police will do
is look for somebody who's had contact with the victim.
They will probably go to a lot of electronic and passive data
to verify what that person has said and to track their movements
in a chronology to see who they can place
at the scene at the time.
When Italian police check Vincenzo's phone,
they discover he was last in contact with a 26-year-old man.
This man is a British national called Jason Marshall.
Italian police need to find out
who Jason Marshall is and his movements
since arriving in the country a week or two previously.
They put Jason Marshall under surveillance
using his mobile GPS signal.
And then using CCTV
they quickly discover Jason Marshall has been using
Vincenzo's credit card since his murder a week ago.
But detectives cannot arrest Jason Marshall yet.
They need to uncover more evidence
if they are to link him with Vincenzo Iale's murder.
It's been one day since the body of Vincenzo Iale
was discovered by Italian police.
Detectives have followed Jason Marshall to a flat
belonging to a local man
in the Casal Morena district in Rome.
Detectives had been outside the building for four hours
but with the shift ending they leave the scene.
Leaving Jason Marshall inside.
Neighbours are alerted to the sound of a blood curdling scream
in the apartment where Marshall is last seen.
When police arrive they find a 55-year-old man injured
and tortured to near death.
He describes his attacker and says his name is Jason Marshall.
Jason Marshall is a wanted man.
Police know he's dangerous,
and he's two hours ahead of them.
The hunt is on,
and they need to establish what he will do next.
Police need track Jason Marshall using his phone to a bus route
leaving the local area.
Everybody these days has an electronic footprint.
We leave it with our, you know, cash cards,
we leave it with our phones,
we leave it with our cars and it's very easy for the police
these days to track who has been where and when.
Police manage to stop the bus and arrest Jason Marshall.
And what they find on him is alarming.
When Marshall is arrested he had on him various items
that he'd used to disguise himself as a police officer.
A retractable metal truncheon,
a pistol that he put onto his utility belt.
Yet when authorities look into Jason Marshall's background
they discover that he did not work for the British Embassy.
Police also uncover more items from him that are crucial.
There were various items that the police recovered
that clearly linked him to these two attacks in Italy.
Once they'd apprehended him
they found possessions belonging to the murder victim Iale.
Jason Marshall is arrested
and charged with the murder of Vincenzo Iale.
He's also charged with the attempted murder
of a 55-year-old man earlier that night.
Now, it's up to the Italian justice system
to decide his fate.
Italy correspondent Michael Day covers the trial of Jason Marshall.
We decided to go down to the court in Frosinone,
which is about 70 kilometres south of Rome.
We got on the train and went down there
and we sat through the case.
Francesco Bruschini is appointed by the Italian state
to be Marshall's lawyer.
As the trial opens the court hears
the details of the attacks on both Vincenzo Iale
and the other victim.
In both instances Marshall presents himself
as an MI5 intelligence officer.
Psychiatric tests presented to court
claim Marshall has psychosis,
delusions, asperger's and a personality disorder.
From the brief time I actually watched him,
he did seem quite disturbed.
He seemed very angry.
Sometimes he seemed quite far away and at a certain point
the accused just started shouting at the judge and said,
"For god's sake get on with it!
I've been doing this for months!"
Incredibly angry like he thought he shouldn't be there like
almost he was the victim in all this,
it was very strange.
As the trial proceeds
Marshall's behaviour becomes ever more erratic.
Marshall is an individual
who's been classified as experiencing psychosis.
A psychotic episode can make you very paranoid,
it can make you believe that you are a completely
different person, maybe you're Jesus,
so it's a very real condition
where you act outside the realms of normality
and also you're not necessarily culpable for those actions
because you are not within your right mind.
The court is not convinced by Jason Marshall's defence.
With the evidence stacked up against him,
Marshall is found guilty of both murder
and attempted murder.
However, due to his psychiatric report
he is given a lesser sentence of 16 years imprisonment in Italy.
Jason Marshall has been jailed for his horrific crimes in Italy.
As yet he's unaware that back in the UK
police uncover evidence linking him to another murder.
The murder of Peter Fasoli in Northolt, London.
British national, Jason Marshall,
is serving life in prison in Italy
for murder and attempted murder.
But his past is soon to catch up with him.
Chris Murgatroyd is researching the family tree
on a hard drive of a computer recovered from his uncle,
Peter Fasoli's house,
following a fire which killed Peter 22 months earlier.
But Chris has discovered a web cam file
revealing his uncle wasn't alone on the night he died.
He had invited another man over.
And their whole meeting was captured on Peter's web cam.
As he walked in sort of he spoke casual with Peter.
They appeared to know each other and appeared to have met before.
From memory they did say about I think Peter said
to the man that he'd missed him.
But Chris notices something distinctive
about the way this man is dressed.
He appeared um,
in the video to be dressed as a police officer.
He sort of came in, he had sort of a black jacket on.
When he took this off he had a badge hanging from his neck,
he also had a gun holster and stated to Peter
that he was from the police.
Far from being alone on the night
he supposedly died in an accidental fire,
Peter Fasoli had actually invited a date over to his home.
This man was Jason Marshall.
And it appears his intentions for that evening
were very different to Peter's.
And sort of slowly sifting through and skipping back and forth.
It became quite clear that something seriously
wrong was going on.
Chris immediately contacts the police
and the true horror of the contents of the tape are revealed.
As the clip goes on it obviously turns very dark
and very sinister very quickly
as Marshall takes control of the situation.
Marshall demands that he hands over his pin number to his bank account
and threatens him with violence to cut out his tongue even.
And then starts to abuse him
and to essentially to torture him.
At this point Peter seemed very uncomfortable.
Um, was asking for this to stop.
And it sort of just carried on.
Peter endures what appears to be a sadistic torture for hours.
Did he get out of this?
Was this part of the role play?
Did he come away from this alive?
Did he leave and then the fire broke out?
So, it's a point of having to know.
The video shows Jason Marshall inject Peter Fasoli
up to four times with a liquid
and then smother him with a pillow
before wrapping cling film around his face,
suffocating him.
The way he suffocated him, I can't...
I just can't go into it.
It's always that... that bit sets me off.
It's just the last bit I can't cope with.
I still can't now.
I can't do it. Sorry.
TRISTAN: One of the most unsettling parts of this case
is that the Classic FM radio station is playing throughout this scene
as it unfolds over the various hours
and so you have the juxtaposition
of a horrific murder happening in front of you
and the strains of Classic FM playing in the background.
The fact that this beautiful music, this calming,
soothing, incredible tunes were being played
in the last moments of an individual's horrific murder,
the juxtaposition is harrowing.
Peter is now unconscious.
The video continues to capture Jason Marshall in the house.
Although Peter is not moving,
his guest continues to remain in role play.
This is quite shocking,
even after he'd suffocated his victim
and he was lying either dead or dying on the floor,
that Marshall kept speaking into the radio.
He's pretending to be calling someone, to help him,
calling police officers or calling someone, talking about,
you know, I need your help and yeah,
no-one was gonna come and help were they.
He knew he was gonna leave Fasoli for dead
and yet he continued with these psychotic ideas.
The video recording shows Jason Marshall's behaviour
becoming increasingly unusual.
He then did something truly bizarre.
He actually did something over his body.
Bearing in mind he wouldn't know
that the web cam was on or being recorded.
He did a half-hearted cross across his chest
and he uttered words in Latin
which mean in the name of the father,
the son and the Holy Ghost.
It was a very, very bizarre thing to do.
Peter Fasoli is dead.
Murdered by Jason Marshall
who then appears to snap out of his role play
and remove any evidence of being at the scene.
He then spent 10-15 minutes cleaning up the scene,
tidying up his possessions, wiping down the areas
that he might have touched.
Flushing the toilet four times as he was obviously cleaning up
and getting rid of any evidence that he could.
Marshall sprinkled some kind of flammatory material on the hob.
And then after a minute or so you can actually hear
the flames starting to burn and it's at that point
that the tape stops to roll.
He set fire to that property and walked out and left Peter,
our victim for dead.
In January 2013,
police had ruled Peter Fasoli's death
to be an accident.
Now, 22 months on,
they have evidence he was in fact murdered.
I sort of broke down a bit.
I didn't really know at that point where to go.
Where do we go from here?
It sort of changed what we thought was a simple accidental death
to somebody had done this to my uncle Peter.
I couldn't comprehend it.
It were like it wasn't in reality.
I couldn't... I couldn't believe it.
I've got everything were going through my head,
you know, why?
Who? How?
You know, I just didn't know.
Police have a killer caught on camera.
They need to find Jason Marshall
and they need to find him fast.
Once you find out who he is you look into all his background,
intelligence background, all the databases you go to,
you know, social networking, everything.
When police look at Peter's digital activities
they notice Marshall had arranged to meet Peter
via social media site Badoo on the day he was murdered.
Peter Fasoli was gay
and part of his lifestyle was going online
and meeting young people.
They'd met up once before in the December
and that was actually their second meeting
where the victim had invited Marshall
to come to his flat.
But as police delve deeper
into the pair's online communications
they discover that just hours before
they were due to meet Marshall messaged Peter to cancel.
Marshall took a few steps that were clearly calculated
to try and cover up his involvement in the death.
He continued to contact Peter Fasoli on Badoo
suggesting that, "Oh, we didn't meet up that night.
I'm sorry I let you down", covering his tracks
so putting police off his scent if you like.
He sent a message essentially saying,
"I'm sorry I couldn't come last night,"
but he was laying the ground work for an alibi.
Jason Marshall had tried to cover his tracks
making out he had never met Peter on the day of his death.
But police have the pair on camera
and now they uncover something else.
When police contact Peter's bank
they discover someone used his bank card to withdraw cash.
The culprit was caught on the ATM CCTV camera
and it clearly shows Jason Marshall.
He withdrew 780 pounds from his account
so that was another part of the murder,
that he'd done it to essentially gain money
out of the victim's bank account.
And when police look further
into the transactions on Peter's account,
they discover that Marshall left the country...
just four days after he murdered Peter Fasoli.
The Metropolitan Police had found that
some plane tickets had been bought to Italy
using money from Peter's accounts or in Peter's name
under the name of Jason Marshall.
Only few days later he left the country.
He booked himself a flight to Italy.
He booked himself a return back to the UK.
But it appears Marshall never took that return flight.
Instead he stayed in Rome.
A killer has slipped through the net
and in Italy he goes on to commit two more heinous crimes.
22 months on, UK police are finally on his trail,
ready to bring him back to face justice.
Who is Jason Marshall?
And what turned this Londoner into a cold-blooded serial killer?
(SIREN WAILS)
Police are on the hunt for Jason Marshall
after discovering footage of him murdering Peter Fasoli.
When metropolitan police locate Marshall's whereabouts
they trace him to an Italian jail in Rome.
Where he is serving life for another murder
committed after he killed Peter Fasoli.
The police would have been horrified
because the assumption at the time was this was a tragic accident.
An arrest warrant was issued for Jason Marshall.
He was flown over from Italy to the UK
and then he was arrested for Mr Fasoli's murder
when he landed at Heathrow.
All that evidence was there on that computer
so that would have been the evidence to bring him back to this country
and charge him and put him before the court.
Yes, a bizarre and gruesome case, Jane,
which almost never came to court.
The story goes back to January 2013,
when Peter Fasoli's body was found at his house
where there'd been a fire.
Jason Marshall faces trial at the old bailey
for the murder of 58-year-old Peter Fasoli.
When Marshall enters the dock,
the British public first set their eyes on this serial killer.
One of the striking things about Jason Marshall
is how calm and calculated he seemed.
He was very calm, very measured.
When he gave evidence he explained his story
with very little emotion
and obviously no regrets
or apologies for what he'd done.
He came across like you could pass him in the street,
he could be anybody.
He sat there without a reaction on his face
but to me it sort of made me quite angry,
sat in the gallery watching him
to not see any sort of look of remorse on his face.
I stared him out.
My way of dealing with it was staring at him.
As Jason Marshall stands trial
the shocking truth behind his crimes comes to light.
With two murders and an attempted murder
committed in just one month,
what could have turned this man into a violent, sadistic killer?
Jason Marshall was taken into foster care
when he was 10 years old,
a difficult upbringing and there was some evidence
during the case of him suffering from Asperger's syndrome
and having various learning difficulties.
As Marshall grew into a young adult
he continued to lead a chaotic life.
He didn't really have an ordered life,
he didn't have future oriented goals.
He kind of was a man who lived in the moment
which is the way a lot of people with personality disorders
might live their life.
But Marshall experiences a brief moment of stability.
In 2012, he held down a job during the Olympics,
we believe as a cleaner.
But when he was employed he seemed to be,
you know, when he kind of a regimented, you know,
getting up in the morning and going to work,
that really helped him.
He went to work, he had some purpose.
However, his deteriorating mental health
catches up with him.
He had depression, he clearly was psychotic,
clearly had a lot of mental health issues
and then when he lost his job he hit the bottle
and then he spiralled into a depression, psychotic
and the mental health issues then were enhanced
because he was drinking far too much
and then this is where he spiralled and he was isolated
and I suppose that's where the real concern is.
No longer employed,
Marshall decided to create a job of his own.
He would go around impersonating
law enforcement agents or police officers,
travelling around on the tube apparently
trying to solve crimes and catch miscreants.
He had gone out tooled up
with his utility belt and his fake police badge
and he carried with him a small terrier dog
which he pretended was his sniffer dog.
But this unusual behaviour soon spirals out of control.
In Marshall's chaotic mind, the lines between what was real
and what was fantasy began to merge into one.
Marshall would fantasize, act out and seemingly believe
that he was a police officer.
But he would portray this as it was his absolute fact
and try to convince
and coerce others into the same belief system.
And even on the night that he killed Peter Fasoli
he was there equipped if you like and he believed,
he had grandiose ideas about
who he was and I truly believe that he actually thought
he was either an agent or a police officer
and he was in his own little world.
Is this what turned him into a killer?
I strongly believe that Marshall was an individual
who is born with a predisposition DNA wise to be a killer.
His sexual gratification is gained
through making others helpless and vulnerable.
He gains his pleasure from watching his victims
in distress and pain, that's what turns him on.
That's what's terrifying about this individual.
The trial into the murder of Peter Fasoli comes to a close.
Jason Marshall is found guilty.
He is sentenced to life imprisonment
with a minimum term of 39 years behind bars.
Seeing Jason Marshall brought to justice
and played in front of a jury sort of did really help
close that chapter for me.
Knowing that the person responsible had been found
and brought to justice for what he did to Peter.
But we have got justice for what he's done
and he stays in there and he suffers.
He just stays in there.
What he's done and what he's put everybody through,
not just our family but everybody else.
This case is a one of a kind.
It was really shocking to see the footage being played in court.
One of the most unusual things
I think I've seen in my career as a court reporter.
With the case now closed it is still hard to understand
how authorities missed a murder.
The question does come
of what investigation was done around then.
It's quite extraordinary
that whoever investigated this scene
overlooked these key pieces of evidence.
But there must have been some signs on his body
that that weren't just smoke.
To me it felt like if he's restrained him
there should have been some restraint marks
showing up on his body, on his skin.
That always played on me mind but to me I don't think
they looked as much as they should have done.
That's going back on it in me mind.
I think what's shocked me about this case
is how sad it was that Peter Fasoli died
and it was accepted that it was an accidental death
because Marshall wasn't arrested for that
he went on to murder and attempt to murder somebody else.
For Peter's family the horror of watching his death
unfold on camera is something that will live with them forever.
It made me, at the time, quite sick in wondering
if I'd have found this video earlier could I have stopped those others
but every time that I sort of close my eyes
trying to go to sleep, it sort of...
I get the images of seeing sort of Peter's flat
um, and sort of finding it hard
then to actually get myself to sleep just thinking about that footage.
If I think about it I can still see the room...
as it is from the video footage.
ANNE: I do miss him.
He'll always be my brother no matter what.
No-one can take that away from me.
And I've got memories that no-one can take.
He can't take them memories away from me.
He'll be my brother.
Having almost got away with the murder of Peter Fasoli...
there's one burning question.
Could Jason Marshall have killed more?
It has crossed my mind and does make me still think
is there something that Jason Marshall did prior to this,
was there other offences that we still not yet know about.
If he's done that to my brother,
done it to somebody else, he must to me,
he must have done it to someone before
and that's all that kept going through my head.
He can't be the only one.
I think he's done it before.
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