He Likes Teenage Girls
A true-crime recap of Roberto, an Italian psychiatric escapee whose trail of violence across three countries ended only when a teenage girl he'd once proposed to recognized his face on television.
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He seemed to like teenage girls.”
He seemed to like teenage girls.
Establishes Roberto's pattern of targeting minors, framing why the teenage girl witness matters to the investigation.
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reason and he leaves. Meanwhile, back in Ton in France, police are still investigating the three shootings he did there, trying to figure out who pulled the trigger. Well, remember when he was living there in Ton. So, there's this teenage girl who happened to know Roberto back then? He seemed to like teenage girls. But anyway, this girl knew Roberto. And so police interrogate her and she tells them where to find his old apartment. And so police go search his old apartment and they dust the place for fingerprints and the
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She's 16 now, and she sees his face on TV one day and walks straight to the police station and tells them everything.
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who recognizes him to come forward. And from here, a multinational manhunt begins in France and Switzerland. And remember the 14-year-old French high school student he dated and asks to marry him? Well, she's 16 now, and she sees his face on the TV one day and she goes right to the police station and she tells them everything she knows about him. But by this point, Roberto has fled Switzerland and returned to Italy, right back to his hometown of Mestri. And while he's in Italy, he meets yet another high school-aged girl and he
She's 16 now, and she sees his face on the TV one day and she goes right walks straight to the police station and she tells them everything.
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Roberto leaves the psychiatric prison on a day pass to attend class and has no intention of ever going back.
Marks the moment Roberto exploits a routine privilege to permanently escape psychiatric custody.
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semifreedom privileges. Like he takes classes through the local university where he studies geology and they give him like day passes so that he can leave and go to class. And one day they give him a day pass so that he can go to class. And Roberto leaves the place and he has no intention of ever going back. So he gets on a train headed to Genoa and he disappears. And from there he somehow, we don't know how, but he somehow gets an ID card and he uses it to get into France. And there in southeastern France, Roberto starts a
pass so that he can go to class. And Roberto leaves the place psychiatric prison on a day pass to attend class and he has no intention of ever going back.
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She ends up saying no because she doesn't like that he's a bit crazy and has intense mood swings. Good for her.
The narrator editorializes relief that a 14-year-old's own judgment protected her from a dangerous fugitive.
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really makes his money by committing burglaries and armed robberies in the area. While he's there, he also meets a French 14-year-old high school student, and they start dating. And he likes her so much, he even proposes to her at one point. But fortunately, she ends up saying no because she doesn't like that he's a bit crazy and has intense mood swings. Good for her. Anyway, then in 1987, something crazy happens. He parks his car one night and he falls asleep in it. And in the morning, a local policeman is leaving for work and he
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Instead of going back to the asylum, he ends up unaliviving himself.
Roberto's story ends not with recapture succeeding but with him dying before returning to psychiatric custody.
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while he's in Italy, he meets yet another high school-aged girl and he starts seeing her. But pretty quickly, her parents recognize him from the news and they call the police. And so, bam, they finally arrest him. And I'm not sure if this is actually a mug shot, but here is a picture of him. And so they end up putting him in an Italian prison. And once again, he's ruled legally insane. And he's ordered to be transferred to a psychiatric prison. But instead of going back to the asylum, he ends up unaliviving himself.
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