Dafter last Tuesday’s break, Francesca Fagnani returns to prime time at 9.20pm on Rai 2 with Beast Crime 2026. In the studio there will be no VIP guests but rather culprits and protagonists of news events black. In the studio tonight: Raffaele Sollecito, Teresa Potenza and Alessandra Giudicessa. 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 19 May Rai 2, previews of interviews with Raffaele Sollecito, Teresa Potenza and Alessandra Giudicessa
Beast Crime: who is Raffaele Sollecito, acquitted for the murder of Meredith Kercher
After a long period away from the news, Raffaele Sollecito returns to speak in a long and intense interview with Francesca Fagnani for Beast Crime. Recounting some unpublished details of his story and revealing that he still feels pointed out as a suspect murderer despite the now ten-year acquittal from “Perugia crime”. «Seven out of ten Italians still think I’m guilty»reveals Sollecito who also tells Francesca about the psychological pressures and intimidations he suffered during the first interrogations at the police station.
«Many people still believe today that I am guilty»
Among the most debated crime stories of the last thirty years, the crime took place on the morning of November 2, 2007 when the body of the 21-year-old English student Meredith Kercher he was found lifeless, torn apart by stab wounds, in an apartment in the Umbrian capital.
Raffaele Sollecito at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
The victims’ roommate, the American student Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend immediately came under the scrutiny of the investigators. the computer engineering student from Puglia Raffaele Sollecito. The two young people, aged 23 and 20 at the time of the crime, were acquitted in 2015 after four years of preventive detention and a court battle who only after eight years recognized the Ivorian Rudy Guede as the sole person confirmed responsible for the murder.
«Many people believe that I paid too little» reveals Sollecito on the stool Beast Crime. “50/50?” urges Francesca Fagnani and the man unexpectedly becomes worse: «70 percent believe I am guilty». A prejudice which according to Sollecito, which today he lives between Berlin and Puglia and works as a software engineer, he still has some repercussions on his life. «There have been companies that tore up my contract after having made me sign it as soon as they discovered the affair concerning me.”
The investigations of 2007, the famous photo of the kiss with Amanda Knox and the end of their relationship
Pressed by Francesca Fagnani on the reasons that could continue to fuel an idea of guilt towards him, Sollecito returns to talk about the first days of the investigation. When some sudden changes in statements they had convinced the investigators that he was trying to escape his responsibilities and wanted to cover Amanda Knox.
The journalist reminds Sollecito that during one of the first interviews at the police station he had backtracked: «You say: “I told you a lot of bullshit in the previous report because Amanda had convinced me of her version of events and I didn’t think about the inconsistencies.'” Sollecito reacts vehemently: “I didn’t say that sentence, the policemen told me: “You better sign this sentence because it can help you”».
Fagnani finally asks Sollecito about the note photo of the kiss between the two boyfriends immediately after the discovery of the bodyor the British student “They criticized her a lot for that shot” and Sollecito: «It was manipulation. I just wanted to reassure Amanda with a kiss on the lips”. And then he goes back to talking about end of the relationship with the American student: «After some time I wrote her a letter in prison and there I found the wall. I suffered through it».
Raffaele Sollecito at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
Teresa Potenza a Beast Crime 2026who is the ex-partner of Giuseppe Mastrangelo, the boss of Cerigonola
First woman to have had the courage to break the wall of silence of the Foggia mafia, Teresa Potenza looks back in the studio of Beasts the years alongside the Cerignola boss Giuseppe Mastrangelo. Sentenced to three life sentences for four murders also thanks to his statements.
In a dramatic story, the woman describes to Francesca the violence, torture and humiliation suffered over the years of the relationship with the mafia boss. «One evening he took me to the open countryside» reveals the woman «He put the gun in my mouth then on my head, grabbed me by the hair, urinated in my face and said to me: “You who want to run away from me deserve this. Now choose: do you want to be raped by my friends or will I slash your face?”.
Teresa Potenza at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
The brutal murders of her ex-partner and the choice to collaborate with justice
Teresa Potenza then continues with the story, as before Mastrangelo confessed to her one of the symbolic crimes of the Cerignola mafia war: the triple murder of innocent boys in their early twenties, killed and made to disappear only because they were seen in a bar with some members of a rival clan. “It was I who killed those three boys” is Mastrangelo’s revelation reported by Potenza. A story that the witness still remembers today with terror: «He said: “They were crying, screaming like rabbits. One saw the other die”».
Teresa Potenza’s testimonies were decisive for the Carthage operationthe maxi investigation that managed to inflict the first very hard blow on the Cerignola mafia. Potenza also confesses to Francesca the turning point: when she decides to flee, pregnant, after being kidnapped for weeks by the boss. «I decided to collaborate for give my son the chance to grow up free.”
Alessandra Giudicessa a Beast Crime 2026who is the kleptomaniac of the film Like a cat on the ring road
In the studio of Beast Crime Also Alessandra Giudicessa, who became popular with her sister Valentina for the role of the kleptomaniac twins in films Like a cat on the ring road by Riccardo Milani. A rare case, that of the Giudicessa, of perfect fit between fiction and reality. The sisters, in fact, really have experienced by professional theft experts and with a father who got by thanks to robberies.
Alessandra Giudicessa at “Belve Crime”. (Photo by Stefania Casellato)
The success of the film, the trouble with the law (and the shop assistants) and the difficult childhood
The fame resulting from the roles they had in the cinema, however, does not seem to have improved the twins’ lives: «The money ran out immediately. We found ourselves as before, or rather, even worse. Because in the end we received all the complaints from people who, watching the film, then remembered that we had actually gone to steal» is Alessandra’s bitter observation.
«Nowadays, wherever we enter, shop assistants follow us» Alessandra continues in a story full of self-irony «Maybe I’ll go and accompany my children to buy something and there are ten shop assistants who come after me. They even leave the coffers free and all follow me. Then maybe someone else comes in and takes everything away from him. It makes me laugh but at the same time it makes me cry».
There are some intense passages of the interview where the former thief recalls the difficult years of childhood. «Our father was always in prison and mother put us in boarding school as children. My sister and I grew up alone.” And at the end he confesses to the journalist: «I wish I could go back and change everything, I would cut off my hands to have a new life».
