workday's receipts, about 2 million lira (about $1000) and fled the crime scene. Arrest and sentence Based on the description of the black Mercedes one of his sex worker victims was seen entering the night she was killed, police considered Bilancia "suspect number one" and followed him for ten days. They collected his DNA from cigarette butts and a coffee cup, matching it to DNA found at crime scenes. On 6 May 1998 he was arrested at his home in Genoa and his revolver seized. After eight days in police custody he confessed, speaking for two days and drawing 17 diagrams. On 12 April 2000, after an 11-month trial, Bilancia was sentenced to 13 terms of life imprisonment plus an additional 20 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of the sex worker who survived. The judge ordered that he never be released. Aftermath Bilancia's criminal life and the events that saw him as a cruel serial killer had a major impact in the media of Italy. His story inspired a television miniseries, called Ultima pallottola ("The last bullet"), directed by Michele Soavi, broadcast for the first time in 2003 on Canale 5, with actors Giulio Scarpati, who plays the officer during the investigations, and Carlo Cecchi, as the serial killer. In 2004 Donato Bilancia was interviewed live on Rai 1 during the broadcast on Domenica in, in that year conducted and hosted by Paolo Bonolis. The host received bitter criticism for the interview. In the early 2010s, then leader of the Five Star Movement political party, Beppe Grillo, admitted that he was neighbor of Donato Bilancia, as a child in Genoa. In 2015, Rai 3 dedicated an episode to Bilancia, in the television show Stelle Nere ("Black Stars"). In prison, Bilancia was often recognized as a "model prisoner". In 2016, after 5 years of studies, he obtained a diploma in accounting disciplines with a score of 83/100, and he then began studying tourism disciplines at university. In 2017, Bilancia made request for commutation of his life imprisonment penalty into 30 years of imprisonment, requesting summary judgment which was abolished at the time of his trials, but called into question by a sentence of the European Court of Human Rights. However the Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court of appeal in Italy, rejected his request. The same year Bilancia obtained his first temporary permit to leave the prison under armed