FAKING IT – CRIMINAL LIES
PINO RINALDI RETURNS WITH NEW CASES OF “FAKING IT – CRIMINAL LIES”
The protagonists of crime news investigated through the study of language and behavior
IN WORLD PREMIERE
FROM MARCH 5 AT 21:25 ON NOVE
AND IN STREAMING PREVIEW ON DISCOVERY+
Starting from March 5 at 9:25 PM on NOVE, “FAKING IT – CRIMINAL LIES,” the true crime series in eight episodes hosted by Pino Rinaldi, journalist and longtime correspondent of “Chi l’ha visto?,” returns. Each episode observes and analyzes the protagonists of crime news through the study of language and behavior.
Sometimes, it is only through body language and tone of voice that we can truly know someone.
Pino Rinaldi and his team return to analyze some of the most complex cases in Italian crime news by studying the language and behavior of the murderers. Alongside Rinaldi, profiler Margherita Carlini (psychotherapist and forensic criminologist), listener Felix B. Lecce (forensic communication expert), and watcher Diego Ingrassia (emotional-behavioral analysis expert) will once again delve into these cases.
In each episode, Pino Rinaldi narrates the detailed chronicle of the case, while the three experts focus on analyzing interviews, testimonies, wiretaps, and footage of the perpetrators, to study verbal and non-verbal language, posture, expressions, and gestures of the killer and confirm, through this new reading of the facts, the trial outcomes.
The series kicks off with the case of Elena Ceste (airing Tuesday, March 5): When Elena disappears, her husband Michele Buoninconti is at the forefront of the search team. He appears to be just a husband looking for his wife, but when Elena Ceste’s body is found nine months later, Buoninconti is accused of murder. The experts of “Faking It” will analyze video and audio materials from those nine months to uncover the dark truth hidden by the husband, who was definitively sentenced to thirty years.
Other episodes include the story of Tatiana and Elena Ceoban (March 12), a mother and daughter who mysteriously disappeared from their small town in the province of Viterbo and were never found. After three degrees of judgment, Paolo Esposito, Tatiana’s husband and Elena’s stepfather, was found guilty, despite his claims of innocence. According to Paolo Esposito, Tatiana and Elena did not die but voluntarily fled the town. By revisiting this case, the series seeks an answer: Did Tatiana and Elena escape, or is Paolo Esposito responsible for the double murder?
Subsequent episodes will also cover the infamous Cogne murder (March 19), the most tragic infanticide in Italian history. Annamaria Franzoni, mother of two children, was convicted of killing her son Samuele in his bed. This case has divided public opinion between those who believe in her innocence and those who do not, filled with dark points and unsettling twists. The experts of “Faking It” will seek answers to the questions raised by the case: Did Annamaria kill Samuele? And if she did, is she lying and pretending not to remember, or is it possible to commit murder and then suppress the memory?
The tragic Costa Concordia shipwreck (March 26), one of the most severe incidents in Italian maritime history, will also be examined. According to Italian justice, the disaster’s responsibility lies with Captain Francesco Schettino, sentenced to 16 years for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck, and abandoning ship. However, he is neither a professional criminal nor a murderer in a fit of rage; his profile matches someone whose actions, behavior, and lack of clarity led to the deaths of 32 people. Schettino has always defended himself, asserting that he was not solely responsible for the disaster. The focus of this episode is to investigate Schettino’s personality and the mistakes he made.
Other cases covered include the murder committed by Father Graziano in “Murder in the Rectory” (April 2), the story of Guerrina Piscaglia, who disappeared in May 2014 from a small town in the province of Arezzo. Father Graziano was sentenced to 25 years for her murder. “The Angel of Death” (April 9) covers the case of Alex Stazzi, the nurse convicted of killing Maria Teresa dell’Unto and five elderly people in a nursing home in Tivoli in 2009. The penultimate episode focuses on the “Case of Dina Dore” (April 16) in Gavoi, province of Nuoro, another terrible femicide where the woman was killed and hidden in the trunk of her car on March 26, 2008. The husband, dentist Francesco Rocca, was the mastermind who hired an 18-year-old, Pierpaolo Contu, to kill her. The final episode, “The Lies of Renzo Dekleva” (April 23), deals with the case in Piovene Rocchette, Vicenza, where the body of Lucia Manca was found in 2011 after disappearing three months earlier. According to the judge, the crime happened within their home, likely following an argument, and the culprit is Renzo Dekleva, the victim’s husband, who continues to lie, trapped in his web of deceit.
“FAKING IT – CRIMINAL LIES” (8×70’) is produced by Stand By Me for Warner Bros. Discovery and will be available from March 5 on NOVE and in preview on discovery+. NOVE is available on channel 9 of Digital Terrestrial, Sky channel 149, and tivùsat channel 9.