FLORENCE – A mystery that has been going on for 55 years, eight brutal double murders, an unspecified series of “collateral” deaths and only two final convictions – in fact without overwhelming evidence and based on often contradictory testimonies – for only four of the eight double crimes. It is an endless story, the “monster of Florence”, or the “monsters” who sowed panic in the Florentine countryside, in Italy, between the 70s and 80s, killing couples who went away in the car for a few moments of intimacy and, in some cases, surgically removing intimate areas from women’s bodies. (more…)
