Raquel Sánchez-Silva and Mario Biondo attend GQ Men of the Year Awards 2012 photocall at on November 19, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.Europa Press/Europa Press via Getty Images
- Netflix's "The Last Hours of Mario Biondo" examines the mysterious death of an Italian cameraman.
- He was married to TV presenter Raquel Sánchez-Silva when he died in 2013.
Netflix's latest true-crime documentary series, "The Last Hours of Mario Biondo," looks at the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of an Italian cameraman in 2013.
Mario Biondo met his wife, TV presenter Raquel Sánchez-Silva, while working on "Survivor Spain," the Spanish iteration of the popular reality competition series, and they dated for a year before getting married on June 22, 2012.
Biondo was found dead one year later on May 30, 2013, and his death was ruled a suicide.
However, Biondo's family believes that Mario was murdered, and the Netflix docuseries explores if there's credence to that theory.
What happened to Mario Biondo?
Raquel Sánchez-Silva and Mario Biondo wed on June 22, 2012, in Taormina, Italy. Europa Press via Getty Images
Mario Biondo died on May 30, 2013, in Madrid, Spain, one year after marrying Raquel Sánchez-Silva.
Biondo's body was found in his home library. Spanish authorities ruled his death a suicide and closed the case.
However, as explored in the Netflix documentary, Biondo's family believes there was foul play involved in his death, though Spanish authorities did not consider Sánchez-Silva a suspect, and she was never charged.
After the Spanish case was closed, Biondo's family petitioned authorities in Palermo, Italy, to investigate.
In 2022, Judge Nicola Aiello concluded that he was murdered and that the scene was staged to look like suicide.
"The elements that are drawn from the file of the public prosecutor in the opinion of the judge deny the suicidal thesis and suggest that Mario Biondo was killed by unknown hands and subsequently placed in a position capable of simulating a suicide," Aiello said, per L'Unione Sarda.
However, Aiello closed the case because too much time had elapsed since Biondo's death.
Biondo's mother, Santina D'Alessandro, admitted in the docuseries that she still monitors Sánchez-Silva's social media accounts.
Where is Raquel Sánchez-Silva now?
Raquel Sánchez-Silva attends the "Bosé" series presentation, to be shown on the SkyShowtime streaming platform, on March 2, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Jose Oliva/Europa Press via Getty Images
More than a decade after Biondo's death, Sánchez-Silva is still a prominent television presenter in Spain, where she hosts "Maestros de la costura," a Spanish version of the British reality competition "The Great British Sewing Bee."
The 50-year-old presenter also published a book, "Mañana, a las seis," in 2014.
In 2014, Sánchez-Silva started dating an Argentinian film producer, Matías Dumont, and the couple welcomed twin boys a year later.