Roberto Succo

After being recognized by a student in Aix-les-Bains on April 6, Succo returned to Italy. On 28 February 1988 he was caught in Mestre, his hometown. On March 1, 1988, in the course of an escape attempt, he fell from the roof of the Treviso prison.

He committed suicide in his cell in Vicenza, in the "San Pius X" prison on May 23, 1988, suffocating himself with a plastic bag.

In 1988, Bernard-Marie Koltès wrote a play (Roberto Zucco) loosely based on Succo's life and crimes. French journalist Pascale Froment wrote a non-fiction account of Succo's crimes that appeared as Je te tue. Histoire vraie de Roberto Succo assassin sans raison in 1991, and it served as the basis for the 2001 film Roberto Succo directed by Cédric Kahn. French police officers criticized the film for allegedly glorifying Succo. Froment's book was reissued in 2001 under the title Roberto Succo.

After serving five years of his sentence, on May 15, 1986 while on freedom privileges, Succo escaped from the psychiatric hospital. He evaded police and escaped to France by rail, using fake documents and changing his surname to "Kurt". In the next few years, he committed numerous crimes, including burglary, rape and murder. In France, he killed two women, a physician, and two police officers. He kidnapped, hijacked, and terrorized people in three European countries. He was considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy, and Switzerland.

Succo was born in Mestre. On 9 April 1981 he fatally stabbed his mother Maria 32 times, and his father, a police officer, who had refused to lend him their car. He hid their bodies in the bathtub covered in water and lime to delay the discovery of the murders and fled with his father's service pistol.

Roberto Succo (April 3, 1962 in Mestre – May 23, 1988 in Vicenza) was an Italian serial killer who committed several murders and other violent crimes mostly in Italy and France in the 1980s.