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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-upon- |
0:03.9 | We have a weird... |
0:06.0 | ...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion. |
0:09.0 | In most cases, a killer's ammo can be intricle in their capture. |
0:15.0 | Investigators are able to connect their victims and find viable clues that they may have otherwise missed. |
0:21.5 | They fit the pieces together like a puzzle. |
0:24.1 | What if a killer doesn't have an ammo? |
0:26.6 | What if their methods of killing were so out there and their victims so random that police |
0:31.9 | find it difficult to fit their puzzle pieces together? |
0:35.5 | On July 10, 1951, a man was born that would leave the citizens of northern Italy, scared |
0:41.8 | for their lives. |
0:43.0 | So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a |
0:47.7 | morning cup of murder. |
0:53.1 | Donato Balancia was born on July 10th in 1951 in Petenza Basilica, and when he was five years old, his family moved to northern Italy. |
1:03.4 | Donato and the life he was subjected to showed the warning signs from the beginning. |
1:08.6 | He was a chronic bedwetter until the age of 10 or 12, and his mother |
1:12.6 | would often place his wet mattress on the balcony, so the neighbors could witness his shame. |
1:18.2 | When he would undress for bed, his own aunt would pull down his underwear so his cousins |
1:22.7 | could see how underdeveloped he was. He dropped out of high school and when he was just a teen, he was arrested |
1:28.8 | for stealing a motor scooter from a truck. In 1974, he was arrested again for having an illegal |
1:35.0 | gun and sometime after that was committed to the psychiatric division of a local hospital, |
1:40.2 | which he escaped from. When he was recaptured, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for robbery. |
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