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Onario Alighieri is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders episode "Il Mostro". Onario is a copycat serial killer of his father, Dr. Dominico Scarpa, the infamous "Monster of Florence", trained by Scarpa to make his legacy and assist in his plan for revenge.
He’s portrayed by British actor Luca Malacrino.
Biography[]
Background[]
Onario was conceived from Scarpa violently raping his sister, Renada, which never resulted in a conviction due to a smear campaign against Renada in court. Scarpa was also guilty of the infamous murders of multiple couples in Florence, which he continued after fleeing Italy due to his ruined reputation. Renada, in the meantime, fled to Naples while she was presumably forced to carry her pregnancy to term. In her final trimester, she tried to abort Onario, but the consequences were disastrous: Renada died, and Onario was born prematurely. He was raised by his grandmother Elisa, a prostitute who warped Scarpa into a killer because he witnessed her having sex with various johns. Elisa named Onario, meaning his name as a cruel degradation by evoking Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet notable for writing works on hell and purgatory. Onario was born with congenital defects and medical problems due to being conceived from incest and his premature birth. As a result of being abused by his mother and bullied at school, he accumulated a criminal record and history of violence, which reached a peak when he drowned a girl at his school at age fifteen, landing him in juvenile detention. When he was released at age 21, he sought Elisa for answers on why he was violent, and she told him the truth about his parentage. This coincided with Scarpa’s return to Italy to settle in an estate in Rome when he was diagnosed with liver cancer. Onario went to Scarpa, as he believed they had a connection due to Scarpa’s crimes, but Scarpa originally rejected him and sent him away. However, wanting his legacy to feed his egotism, Scarpa changed his mind and confessed everything, then enticed Onario to participate in a new series of copycat killings with him, so Scarpa would be immortalize down and he’d have a chance at revenge against the people he blamed for his public downfall.
On Il Mostro[]
Onario specifically targeted couples of international citizens for the new spree. He started by shooting Peyton Moss and Gina Price near a corn field, then uses Gina’s phone to call her sister Alison. A recording of Gina’s murder is played over the phone, leading the leading investigator, Commissario Galterio Conde, to a fountain where a tape player repeats the recording. Next to it is a box with Gina’s sexual viscerae, cut out of her after she died. The International Response Team was dispatched since American citizens were the victims, and they were told of a letter Onario sent announcing the "return" of "The Monster". Onario later shoots British couple Rory Poole and Diane Roberts, proning a dead Diane against the fountain before cutting her organs out and taking them. In both attacks, Onario recorded the murders, specifically of Gina and Diane, to give to Scarpa so he’d place them on his computer to rewatch them begging for their lives before they died to his pleasure. Scarpa was suspected due to his history with the prosecutor of his trials, Carmela Tefini, but he rebuffed all accusations and even drank in the attention. Onario, in the meantime, is dancing in and trashing his apartment while opera plays, at the same time having been conclusively identified as the killer, knowing Scarpa was involved and the answer was in his family's history. By this point, Scarpa and Ontario have taken Carmela hostage, which the agents predicted, knowing his legacy involves revenge on the people with whom his rivalries were maintained. Agent Clara Seger stops Scarpa from killing Carmela, but Onario holds her at gunpoint and makes her drop her weapon. Onario tries to get Scarpa's affirmation, wanting to hear he pleased his father, while Scarpa prepares to kill Carmela again. When Seeger notices Scarpa pays no mind to this, she convinces Onario to turn on Scarpa, as he’ll be thrown aside for Scarpa's needs above his own. Eventually, in spite of Scarpa' objections and orders for Onario to kill Seeger instead of listen to her, Onario trains his gun on Scarpa and asks if Seger’s right. Scarpa bitterly mumbles Onario's no son of his, Seger jumping at the chance to pull out her backup sidearm in her ankle, killing Onario with two shots. Backup arrives to rescue Carmela, and Scarpa is arrested, closing the case permanently.
Trivia[]
- Onario is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Heriberto Seda, a.k.a. "The New York Zodiac Killer", an American serial killer having attacked and murdered people based on the signs of the Zodiac, briefly confused for the unidentified "Zodiac Killer", and known for sending taunting messages to police.
- Stephen Griffiths, a.k.a. "The Crossbow Cannibal", a British serial killer of women in sex work modeling his crimes off the late British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, with a preceding criminal record similar to Ontario.
- Alexander Pichuskin, a.k.a. "The Chessboard Killer", a Russian serial killer in competition with the late Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, and who was primarily raised by a grandparent in his youth.
- The "Gilgo Beach Killer", an American serial killer of women in prostitution responsible for harassing the sister of one murdered woman with obscene phone calls.
- Carroll Cole, an American serial killer of women with a history of emotional abuse by his mother, his first murder being the drowning of a classmate in early grade school.
- William Randolph, a.k.a. "The Gentleman Caller", the secondary antagonist of the book and film adaptation Kiss the Girls a serial killer/rapist and mutilator of women with fellow serial killer Nick Ruskin, a.k.a. "Casanova", as an accomplice and with whom he communicates with computer messages showing footage of their crimes. They share common enemies in the leading detective in the case and the one woman who escaped Ruskin's captivity, and in the film, Randolph is seen like an object to and beneath Ruskin.
