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169 The Beasts Of Satan: Italian Satanic Heavy Metal Murder Cult

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

Police found Mariangela Pezzotta buried in a greenhouse, and her body was still warm.

1. Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast covers the Beasts of Satan and the murders linked to the group in northeastern Milan. 2. Bill is joined by Kevin Carlton of History Goon and Murder Matt of Mighty Murder Coaster, whose metal and occult references shape the discussion. 3. The episode asks how a local metal band with satanic imagery became tied to disappearances, a greenhouse burial, and repeated police failures. 4. Michele Tallis receives a late-night call from his 16-year-old son Fabio on January 17, 1998, and immediately thinks the boy sounds coached. 5. Fabio says he is staying with his 19-year-old girlfriend Chiara Marino, and Tallis goes to Midnight Pub to look for them. 6. Paolo Leone tells Tallis that Fabio and Chiara left for a bistro and maybe a construction site, while other band members begin appearing in the search. 7. Police later find Chiara's room filled with an altar, inverted crosses, and satanic literature, but still treat the pair as runaway teenagers. 8. Tallis keeps documenting names and connections, notices that the band members repeat the same story, and starts checking local metal bars himself. 9. A visit to Paolo Leone's home reveals a bedroom painted black and decorated with goblets, pentagrams, and a goat skull. 10. The hosts contrast that occult image with their description of the Beasts of Satan as a thrash-metal scene that also covered Black Sabbath songs. 11. On January 24, 2004, police find Andrea Volpe in the street, dazed and high on cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. 12. Elisabetta Ballarin is found in Volpe's car, and she is taken to the hospital after appearing to be overdosing. 13. Police trace Volpe's car to an abandoned cottage on Ballarin's parents' property, where Mariangela Pezzotta is found buried in a greenhouse. 14. The body is still warm, which puts the burial and death within roughly two hours of discovery. 15. Volpe first offers one version of the killing, then later says Niccolò Sapone arrived, found Mariangela alive, and hit her with a shovel. 16. Volpe also says Sapone told him to ditch the car by the river, while Sapone claims he only arrived after the body was already dead. 17. Michele Tallis sees the arrest news on television, connects Andrea Volpe to his old research, and decides Mariangela's death is linked to the earlier disappearance. 18. The hosts spend several minutes on the way Tallis acts like his own investigator while police keep missing the same names and clues. 19. Listeners who like Italian true crime, occult subcultures, and heavy-metal scene detail will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners who want a brisk, spoiler-free mystery may prefer something shorter.

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