Carlo Gesualdo: Murderer at Large

T1, E5: Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo was one of the most innovative composers of the 16th century. As Professor Robert Greenberg tells us, he was also a serial murderer with a penchant for sexual extravagance, spousal abuse, and sadomasochism. Carlo's first victim was his own brother, Luigi, who was first in line to inherit all of his family's lands and vast fortune before he mysteriously died in 1584. Gesualdo didn't admit to his brother's murder until his own death, 29 years later. When Carlos finally discovered that his wife had been having an affair for two years without his knowing, he stabbed her lover, Fabrizio Carafa, 27 times.