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| “ | All'Inferno? You will beg for the mercy of Hell before I am finished with you. | „ |
| ~ Scarpa threatening one of his victims. |
Dr. Dominico Scarpa is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders episode "Il Mostro". Scarpa is a fictionalized version of the infamous Italian serial killer The Monster of Florence. In the episode, he orders his son, Onario Alighieri, to continue his murder spree in his absence.
He was portrayed by the late Paul Sorvino, who also portrayed Paul Cicero in Goodfellas, Lips Manlis in Dick Tracy, Serial Assgrabber in The Cleveland Show, Alphonse Perrier du von Scheck in Hey Arnold! The Movie, Lord Capulet in William Shakespeare's William + Juliet, and Rotti Largo in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Biography[]
Little is known about Scarpa’s life, except his mother Elisa worked in prostitution and would bring johns into her car while Scarpa was still a boy, and he was inside as a witness. Scarpa made a career as a surgeon, rising to civil service in Italy’s Ministry of Health. Scarpa snapped at some unknown point for unknown reasons, but the exposure to sex in his childhood resulted in him gaining a violent lust for murder, hoping to target couples in lover’s lanes. Scarpa butchered fourteen people to death in pairs, showing particularly violent aggression toward the women by disfiguring their bodies with knives after they died, particularly their intimate anatomy, profiled to have been from impotence and sexual rage. A state prosecutor, Carmela Tafani, knew Scarpa was the murderer from an FBI profile offered to local authorities. She was merely hired for representation for women, and Scarpa had a high position the government didn’t want to touch, so both embarrassments were avoided by refusing to bring Scarpa to trial, let alone give Carmela the credit. A year after, Scarpa violently raped his sister, Renada, and Carmela took the case for some chance to stop Scarpa. A misogynistic campaign to discredit Renada’s testimony resulted in Scarpa’s acquittal. However, Scarpa fled Europe due to strong enough shame to his image, albeit committing more murders of couples in numerous countries, including in Ukraine and Indonesia.
In the meantime, Renada was pregnant with a son from the rape, trying to abort him in the final trimester while she was in Naples. Instead, the attempt killed Renada, as well as trigger the boy’s early birth. Elisa raised him, naming him "Onario Alighieri" as an insult to him. The abuse to Ontario resulted in him accumulating a criminal record, peaking at him drowning a classmate and being sent to juvenile detention. When Elisa told him the truth of his birth when she was dying, Onario wanted to meet Scarpa. Scarps, coincidentally, returned to Italy to live in an estate in Rome, as he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Scarps wanted to live in solitude and spend his time painting, but Onario shook that up, resulting in Scarpa at first shooing him away. However, Scarpa, ever the narcissist, believed his criminal legacy could be continued through Ontario, so he welcomed his son into his life and trained him to be a copycat to taunt the police after Scarpa died.
On Il Mostro[]
The International Response Team is called to Italy when it seems like Scarpa’s back, as Onario butchered an American couple in another lover’s lane, sent a threatening letter to the police, and left the viscera of the woman for the police to find. Onario repeats the same murder ritual with a British couple at a park. From Carmela, the IRT hear about Scarps and the history of how she never convicted him. Scarpa is visited by the agents while painting and singing opera, and he smugly professes denial in farce, while telling the agents to give his regards to Carmela, as he knew she directed them to him. In stark contrast to his words, Scarpa returns to his office and plays on his computer videos of the murders Onario gave him. Preparing his end game, Scarpa brings Ontario with him to get revenge on Carmela and solidify his place in immortality of criminal history.
The father and son take Carmela hostage in her house, taking her to her office at the top floor so Scarpa can prepare to kill her while bragging about his crimes and impunity. As the agents know Scarpa’s endgame has to involve someone in his life or his case, Agent Clara Seger arrives just in time, ordering Scarpa to let Carmela go while Seeger aims her service weapon. Onario appears and makes Seger drop her weapon, so she does. In the meantime, Carmela and Scarpa shout at each other in Italian during the standoff. Seger sees an opportunity when Onario tries to hear Scarpa say he’s proud of him, but Scarpa pays no attention. Seger tells Onario Scarpa has no interest in him and will dispose of him by selling him out, saying the moment’s about Scarpa more than Onario. In spite of Scarpa’s protests, Onario holds his gun on Scarpa and demands answers, Scarpa bitterly saying Ontario is no son of his. Distracted long enough, Ontario is shot dead by Seger, who pulls her backup sidearm from her ankle. The remaining agents and Commissario Galterio Conde, the leading investigator of the case, arrive to arrest Scarpa. Conde bitterly confronts Scarpa in Italian as he cuffs the serial killer, then orders him to move. Agent Garrett, back at the station, insists Carmela’s earned the honor to escort Scarpa to prison, so Conde extends to honor to Carmela, and she gladly accepts, taking Scarpa to the transport arranged. Scarpa is incarcerated and likely dies in custody from his cancer.
Trivia[]
- Scarpa is inspired by multiple key figures in the real Monster of Florence:
- The son of Barbara Locci, who was with his mother, a sex worker, in the car when she and a man named Antonio Lo Bianco were both murdered.
- Pietro Pacciani, a prime suspect in the murders who painted as a hobby, was sick as the murders drew to an end, and was presumed to have solicited an accomplice.
- Giovanni Vinci, a prime suspect responsible for the rape of his sister.
- Salvatore Vinci, a prime suspect who was prosecuted by Magistrate Mario Rotella for the death of his wife, who was also raped beforehand, which fell apart when the son refused to testify and other witnesses messed up their testimonies.
- Giancarlo Lotti, a suspect who died from liver cancer.
- Francesco Narducci, a prestigious medical doctor, albeit born into a powerful family, not creating one.
- Scarpa is additionally inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Buck Ruxton, a.k.a. "The Savage Surgeon", an Indian-British murderer guilty of mutilating to death his wife and one of his housekeepers, with a medical background of coming from a wealthy family and becoming a prestigious physician and medical officer.
- Teet Härm, a.k.a. "The Coroner", a Swedish suspected serial killer/rapist of sex workers with a position as an esteemed pathologist, which would require him the medical knowledge for the murders.
- Peter Sutcliffe, a.k.a. "The Yorkshire Ripper", a British, misogynistic serial killer of women in prostitution whose case was consulted by FBI profilers, particularly when an imposter sent a threatening tape recorded message. Sutcliffe's murders later saw a copycat, Stephen Griffiths.
- Lonnie Franklin, Jr., a.k.a. "The Grim Sleeper", an American serial/rapist of black-American women in California, known for a period of dormancy after one woman lived and escaped the attempted on her life, before starting to kill women again decades later. Franklin is also suspected of having murdering numerous women in other countries as well.
- Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a. "The Rostov Ripper", a Soviet serial killer of women and children with an M.O. of violent mutilation while the victims were alive and dead, out of chronic impotence. The Soviet government rebuffed many of the murders and rapes in their territories, leaving Chikatilo to kill dozens of people before he was caught, tried, and executed.
- Nick Ruskin, a.k.a. "Casanova", the main antagonist of the book and film adaptation Kiss the Girls, a serial killer/rapist partnered with fellow serial William Randolph, a.k.a. "The Gentleman Caller", communicating through computer messaging with footage of their crimes, and sharing common enemies, the leading detective on their cases and the woman who escaped Ruskin he wants to kill out of revenge.