Fabio Tollis joined the Beasts of Satan as a fan of the metal cover songs they performed in Milan. He was found to have been killed in a ritual murder by his bandmates after vanishing one evening.
Italy was rocked by the story of a metal band turned cult implicated in murder. A father's will to find out what happened to his son helped bring group to justiceThere was a full moon the night Fabio Tollis and Chiara Marino were slain in a wood outside Milan in January 1998. Witness statements would later testify the young couple, just 16 and 19 respectively, died during a cocaine-fuelled ritual murder 'involving sex and heavy metal music', carefully planned out by their peers.
In the first few days of his son's disappearance, as police tried to assure Michele his son had run off with Marino in some youthful fit of passion, the determined father became convinced a trail of Satanic artefacts and a strange detail in the suspects' alibi would lead him to his son. He would be proven right.
Michele thought the call was unusual, that his son would know he would not be allowed to stay out with his 16-year-old partner. 'Drugs are known to have figured prominently in their activities and it is not clear whether they did more than flirt with black magic,' The Guardian would later report. The group assured Michele that 'soon enough the two lovebirds will come back home' and disappeared into the night with a friend.
Six years later, in 2004, the body of 27-year-old shop assistant Mariangela Pezzotta was found under a mound of soil in a greenhouse in Golasecca, near Somma Lombardo, with limbs still visible and the body still warm. Mariangela had broken off their high school romance but continued to lend him money as his troubles worsened.
Sapone was accused of hitting Pezzotta with a shovel in an attempt to kill her, before telling Volpe to dispose of the car. Andrea Volpe is escorted by penitentiary police officers out of Milan's court, Italy, June 16, 2006, after the appeal sentence of the trial Volpe named his bandmates, lining up with Tollis' research, and told police they had killed Pezzotta after Sapone became paranoid about her knowledge of the murders.He then agreed to take investigators to the woods near Busto Arsizio where the bodies of Fabio and Chiara were buried.
Chiara, the only girl in the circle, was trying to move away from the Beasts of Satan when she tragically killed. They had barely stepped out of the car in the area where they were killed when Sapone and Volpe allegedly set on Chiara with knives. Among them, police revisited the 1999 death of Andrea Ballarin - apparently a childhood friend of Volpe - who had been found hanged in his school aged 21.Police also looked into the 1999 death of Angelo Lombardo, a 28-year-old caretaker known to the group, who was found burned alive in the cemetery where he worked.
The revelations about the links to heavy metal music saw claims the band played Slayer album 'Hell Awaits' at full volume during their 'rituals'.
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