Robert Succo aka The Killer of Eyes of Ice Classification: Serial killer Characteristics: Parricide
Robert Succo aka The Killer of Eyes of Ice
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Parricide - Rape - Considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy and Switzerland
Number of victims: 7
Date of murders: 1981 / 1987 - 1988
Date of arrest: February 28, 1988
Date of birth: April 3, 1962
Victims profile: His parents Nazario and Marisa Succo / André Castillo, 38 (policeman) / France Vu-Dinh, 30 / Michel Astoul, 26 / Claudine Duchosal, 40 / Michel Morandin, 35 (policeman)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife / Shooting
Location: Italy / France
Status: Sentenced to 10 years in a psychiatric prison in Reggio Emilia. Escaped from the psychiatric hospital on May 15, 1986. Committed suicide by suffocating himself with a plastic bag in his cell on May 23, 1988
Succo committed his first known murders on April 9, 1981 when he fatally stabbed his mother and strangled his father, a Police officer; they had refused to lend him their car. He then escaped, hiding his parents’ bodies in the bathtub covered in water and lime to delay the discovery of the murders, and taking away his father’s service pistol. After Succo was caught, he was judged mentally ill and he was sentenced to 10 years in a psychiatric prison in Reggio Emilia. While in the facility, he studied and earned a degree in political science.
On May 15, 1986, after serving five years of his sentence, Succo escaped from the psychiatric hospital. He evaded police and left the country to travel to France by rail. In the next few years, Succo committed numerous crimes ranging from burglary to rape to murder; in France, he raped and killed two teenage girls, murdered a physician, and two Police officers who were about to capture him.
He kidnapped, hijacked, and terrorized people across at least four European countries. He was considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy and Switzerland.
It was, ironically, in his home town of Mestre that authorities finally caught up with him and he was arrested for a second time on February 28th1988. During his initial interrogation by the police, he was asked for details of his profession and he answered simply: “I am a killer. I kill people.”. Not one to let life pass him by.
He escaped again during March 1988 but was also caught again after he fell off the prison roof while staging a spectacle for the press. He broke three ribs and his shoulder in this attempt to gain publicity for his plight; he had hoped that he would, once again, be declared insane and sentenced to more time in the psychiatric hospital. When this did not work, he opted for a more permanent type of escape and committed suicide during May 1988 by gassing himself in his cell.
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