In 1989, he was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison, for murdering two prostitutes and her husband of his then girlfriend.
[4] He gained his knowledge about jurisprudence autodidactically and wasn't officially permitted to practice his law advisory business.
In 1989, Lardelli was sentenced to twenty years in prison for murdering two prostitutes and the husband of his then-girlfriend.
[6] In prison, he married a Brazilian woman and adopted her family name, Borgatte dos Santos.
After his early discharge in 1999 due to good behaviour, he had a big media presence, e.g. in Swiss TV and in rainbow press-paper Blick, which dedicated a series to him that lasted six issues.