Series Director, Writer
True-Crime Series for BBC Storyville and Sky Italia (4x45mins)
A Yaddo, Run to Me and Normal Life Pictures co-production for BBC Storyville (1x90mins) and Sky Italy (4x45mins)
"The fast-paced narrative brings it closer to fiction" – Il Giornale (Italy)
"Many people have tried to tell the story, but nobody achieved what Hugo Berkeley has" – Corriere della Sera (Italy)
Not to be missed / Pick of the Day – Evening Standard, Independent and Guardian (UK)
On Friday, 26th November 2010, in the close-knit town of Bergamo, Letizia Ruggeri received a telephone call. It was Maura Gambirasio, a mother whose 13-year-old daughter Yara hadn't come home from the gym. Letizia, who spent years investigating mafia murders in Sicily, thought of her own daughter and promised she would find Yara.
Three months later, Yara's body was tragically discovered - she had been attacked. With just one piece of DNA evidence to go on, Letizia started a hunt for a perpetrator that would take four years, 20,000 DNA samples, ingenuity and tenacity to find the identity of 'Unknown Male no 1'. It was a revelation that would unlock deep family secrets that still reverberated when the suspect was finally brought to trial.
