S10.E13 ∙ Shotgun Justice

Documentary of double homophobic murders in Italy

In 1959 Leo Mantha became the last man executed by hanging in British Columbia. He was convicted of murdering his lover on a naval base outside Victoria but the trial focused as much on the couple's relationship as on the facts of the crime.

The story of a small-time First Republic crook with a weak mind, told by the creators of the TV adaptation in the form of a retrospective trial. A naive dreamer and a weakling with a desire for wealth, railroad man Marsik had a wife and two children. He lived with his uncouth father-in-law, who blamed him for his lack of money and would have preferred to evict his daughter and the whole family. Marsík had an exaggerated opinion of himself and spun naive fantasies and dreams of a better life in which he could still make a fortune. He put an advertisement in the newspaper that he was looking for a wife. The ad was answered by an elderly maid, an old maid who had saved all her life and had a few thousand in her book. He had been seeing the maid, but in time she grew impatient and wanted to get married.

Momoko is a hooker with a heart of gold. She is planning to build her own house, and frequents the land she bought. She finds a strange man hovering there, who was a previous owner of the land.

A recreation of the trial and several hypotheses of the death of the model Alicia Muñiz on February 14, 1988 in the city of Mar del Plata starring the world boxing champion Carlos Monzón as the main suspect of the crime.