Ulast appointment – tonight at 9.20pm on Rai 2 – with the 2026 edition of Beast Crime hosted by Francesca Fagnani. In the studio there will be no VIP guests, but rather culprits and protagonists of news events black. This evening they will be interviewed: Soter Mulè, Daniele Ughetto Piampaschet and Mirko Ricci. Before the interviews, each guest’s story will be introduced by Elisa True CrimeYouTuber and podcaster who will present the protagonist and his story.
Beasts Crime 2026 guests 26 May Rai 2, preview interviews with Soter Mulè, Daniele Ughetto Piampaschet and Mirko Ricci
Beast Crime: who is Soter Mulè, the Roman engineer convicted of manslaughter during a bondage game
In September 2011, an erotic game in a garage in Rome ended in tragedy: Paola Caputo, a twenty-four year old girl, dies during a bondage session. Soter Mulè was definitively convicted of manslaughter in 2016Roman engineer who served 3 years and 6 months in prison.
Fagnani retraces that night, step by step When Mulè, Paola and another girl decide to try «a more complex practice than bondage». With the girls’ bodies suspended from the ground and “ropes around their necks, which is never done because it’s too dangerous” recalls the journalist.
Soter Mulè at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
“Breath Play”, the BDSM world and suicidal thoughts
The journalist also addresses the topic of “Breath Play”, the erotic practice based on asphyxiation and suffocation during sex. “Did you want to do it that evening?” he asks Mulèrecalling how that had been one of the initial hypotheses of the investigation. “No,” the man replies, distancing himself from that definition only to then admit: «There were ropes around Paola’s neck, but not tautstringent”. «And why did he do it? Why did he feel so confident?» asks Francesca again. «It wasn’t the first time we played extreme games» replies Mulè, in one of the most tense moments of the interview.
During the interview, the man also talks the preparation of the session: the ropes, the erotic objects used, the alcohol, the hashish and the moment in which Paola loses consciousness. «I couldn’t do anything» says the man. «Then she couldn’t do enough because she didn’t even have the tools she should have had, the scissors…” Fagnani challenges him. And Mulè admits: «Yes, it’s true. I didn’t have them. AND I didn’t have the knife in my hand. And you have to have that at hand.”
Finally, the man talks about the BDSM world he has frequented for years: private parties and bondage courses. Mulè confides: «The sadomasochistic universe was my way of loving. Love cannot be restricted to a series of canons considered normal.” To then conclude painfully: «I live with the guilt of not saving her. I haven’t had any sex since then. Too many fears, I want to prevent certain things from happening again. I have thought about suicide several times in recent years, the last one two months ago».
TO Beast Crime 2026 Daniele Ughetto Piampaschet, who is the killer writer
Fourteen years after the conviction, Francesca interviews Daniele Ughetto Piampaschet, writer – now detained in Turin prison – who killed in 2012 – anticipating in his stories what would happen – Anthonia Egbuna, a young prostitute Nigerian. Definitively sentenced to 25 years in prison, the man has always maintained his innocence.
The confrontation with the journalist is very harsh from the first minutes and Ughetto attacks magistrates and investigators, accusing them of having “covered up the papers and sidetracked the investigations”. An interview crossed by strong moments of tension therefore, also when Francesca puts the facts that emerged in the sentences before him definitive, which describe him as Antonia’s killer. Ughetto gets nervous and loses control several timesso much so his lawyer must intervene to calm him down.
Daniele Ughetto Piampaschet interviewed in prison by Francesca Fagnani. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
The stories with the description of the murders, the relationship with the writing and the accusations against the magistrates
The heart of the interview is precisely those seized stories during the investigations and became one of the central elements of the prosecution. Texts in which murders of Nigerian prostitutes were described with details believed to be very similar to the Anthonia crime Egbuna. Francesca asks: «The fact that Antonia’s end is very reminiscent of what is written Doesn’t he make an impression on you in his books?”. That’s when Ughetto gets angry: «But really the judges think that a person who has a degree in philosophy like me is so stupid to kill a person, massacre him, write a story and then keep it?”.
Ughetto then tries to explain the relationship between his writing and the world he described in the books: «These girls also served as muses». And again: «I have a literary production of several thousand pages, poems, short stories and novels focused on the magical religious world of Nigeria. Even about De Sade, reading it, they thought who knows what… A writer cannot be judged by what he writes». Francesca, however, stops him immediately: «But she is not De Sade… ».
The man finally returns to attack those who conducted the investigationsarguing that it was the Nigerian mafia that killed Antonia«protected by politics and the judiciary. The key witness who would have acquitted me has disappeared. They were the ones who made it disappear.” A thesis, the journalist reminds him, «rejected three times by the judges in the requests for review it presented».
Marco Ricci a Beast Crime 2026who is the boxer convicted of kidnapping a minor
Destined to be the greatest boxer in Italian history, Mirco Ricci tells his story Beast Crime between successes, crimes and alcohol addiction. «I started when I was fifteen» he says «I was able to drink five, six bottles of wine a night and not notice it. However, I managed to prepare an Italian title in twenty days.”
During the interview, Francesca Fagnani retraces the history of the champion: from the margins of the suburbs Roman to the heights of European boxing. Focusing on the most controversial passages of his life: the fights, the attempted robbery and the shooting in which he was involved. Then the most serious crime he is still serving and which cost him his career: the kidnapping of a child.
Marco Ricci at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
The victory at the Italian championships, the addiction to alcohol and the child he had through artificial insemination
In the studio, the journalist asks Ricci to talk about that evening July 19, 2014, when the man, a few hours after winning the Italian champion title, was kicked while driving his car near the Olympic stadium. Francesca asks: «Can I ask you if it is plausible to think that there was a history of betting behind it?”. «Here we are going straight to American films, it’s not like that” he repliesadding: «Maybe it was someone who couldn’t stomach a fight with me».
The former boxer also talks about the crimes for which he was triedbetween brawls and attempted robberies. Then he faces the most serious case: the kidnapping of a child, an affair for which he is still serving a sentence. A story linked to a drug debt incurred by a woman towards her former boxer and her mother. Ricci, during the interview, continues to declare himself innocent despite the final conviction in the Court of Cassation: «I don’t understand why I got into this story». And he adds: “I found my life destroyed, because I spent ten years locked inside.”
Towards the end of the interview, Francesca also asks where he could have gone without his addiction to alcohol: «I can’t tell you. Many things can happen in life.” In the finale, Ricci talks about the son he had through artificial insemination, with whom Ricci today manages to spend time thanks to the semi-freedom regime. The journalist asks: «When he grows up, how will he explain his previous life to his son?”. «I always ask myself this. I will find a way” concludes the former boxer.
