The Monster of Florence

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The Monster of Florence

Postby cptmarginal » Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:54 pm

This particular case, and the book written about it, happens to deserve more exposure. It's been mentioned before. I decided against posting this in General Discussion.

No need to collect all of the information about it; what is left unsaid in this article may best be left unsaid...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/s ... heobserver

Warning: if you think you'd rather not read this, don't. Or just look at the sentences in bold.

Italian mass killer 'was servant of Satanic sect'

Rory Carroll in Rome

Sunday 9 September 2001 18.32 EDT

The blood has long dried and corpses no longer turn up among the cypresses, but Tuscany's horror story has acquired a sensational twist. The Monster of Florence may have been a Satanic sect bankrolled by the secret service.

The murder and mutilation of courting couples over nearly two decades was a saga that was thought to have ended with the fatal heart attack of Pietro Pacciani, the farm labourer convicted of the crimes.

He would disappear into a landscape of woods and vineyards on moonless nights to collect gruesome trophies with a .22 Beretta revolver and a knife.

The first to die, in August 1968, were Antonio Lo Bianco, 29, and Barbara Locci, 32, who were shot in a car at point-blank range on an isolated lane on a week end. A pattern was set. Another seven couples were to die, the last in September 1985.

Pacciani, stocky and tough, was convicted of the crimes in 1994 and died four years later. Italy consigned the case to history. Except that last week evidence surfaced suggesting Pacciani was not the Monster. He was merely the delivery-man to a Satanic sect, which commissioned the murders to obtain human body parts for ceremonies, said investigators.

The real monsters were allegedly the wealthy and respected members of Tuscan society - including a doctor, ambassador and an artist - who to this day have remained undetected. A cover-up involving secret service agents and missing money is now said to be unravelling.

Last week detectives from Florence raided the homes and offices of Aurelio Mattei, a psychologist with the secret service, Sisde, and of Francesco Bruno, Italy's leading criminal psychologist.

Computer disks, books and notes about the killings were confiscated and both men were questioned for up to nine hours.

Neither is a murder suspect and they have not been charged, but detectives believe they may have withheld evidence from the original investigation into Pacciani, for which they were retained as consultants.

In 1992 Mattei wrote a book, Rabbit on Tuesday, which anticipated evidence uncovered only since the investigation was reopened earlier this year.

Bruno, a regular guest on chat shows, outlined the theory of an occult sect in a report commissioned by the secret service in 1985 - before the final killing. He sent it to Vincenzo Parisi, who has since risen to head the service, but the report was never forwarded to police.


The head of Florence's detective force, Michele Giuttari, discovered its existence only recently, after groping towards the same theory.

The report suggested the mutilations - the women's left breast and pubic area were removed - could have been used in occult ceremonies and even told of a remote villa where they could have taken place.

Pacciani worked as a gardener in a former nursing home which police belatedly searched in 1997.

Giuttari wants to know why the secret service buried the report during a parallel investigation, which spent hundreds of thousands of pounds from a 'black fund', of which no records were kept.

Giuttari hopes that following the money trail could lead to a breakthrough by revealing suspects who were protected by Sisde. 'We will clarify everthing and in good time,' he said. Two members of the secret service have been questioned.

Detectives never closed the investigation, even after Pacciani died and two of his friends, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti, were convicted for helping him. There were too many loose ends.

Pacciani's conviction was overturned and he was facing retrial when he died. The original verdict of a heart attack has been discredited and his death is now being treated as murder. The investigating magistrate, Paolo Canessa, believed Pacciani's heart attack in February 1998 was triggered by drugs to silence him lest he reveal the real monster, or monsters.

Giuttari thinks the illiterate labourer's unexplained wealth - two houses and £50,000 in the bank - were payments from the sect. The leader is thought to be a doctor.


The novelist Thomas Harris, sitting in on the hearings, appeared to share the suspicions and set Hannibal, his follow-up to Silence of the Lambs, in Florence.

• The article was amended on 29 March 2014 to remove the name of the former nursing home following a complaint.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_of_Florence

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Re: The Monster of Florence

Postby cptmarginal » Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:19 am

An old thread started by Jeff: Devil worship links to mystery man (Guardian)

On Sunday evening, March 18, 2007, Italian Carabinieri found themselves grappling with the mysterious case of a young man who had wandered into the their Vercelli barracks. By the time the media picked up the story, officials had determined the young mans oddessey began 70 miles to the northeast near the city of Bergamo, on Thursday evening, March 15th and culminated when he walked through their front door on Sunday evening, claiming that, "he did not know who he was or why he was there."[1] This case is, to say the least, curious: UFOs, esoteric symbology, an abbey, a cemetary, rituals, and blood. Lots of blood.

On Friday, March 16th, "the owner of a bed-sit broke into a flat after the tenant had missed his rent." The walls and floors were covered with "upturned crosses and esoteric symbols written in blood." It was estimated that 3 litres of blood was used to make the drawings and although the majority belonged to the amnestic young man in Vercelli, officials also found blood that did not belong to him.[2] Additionally, while the young mans body bore an "inch-long scar and several punctures" medical examiners felt the wounds "did not correspond with drawing of blood." To add to the growing mystery, the young man—who tested negative for drugs—claimed that he did not recognize his parents. Further compounding matters Bergamo officials noted that the hard drive from a computer found in the flat was missing, as was the sim card from a cell phone found in the same flat.[3]


(I've not followed up on any of this.)
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