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25 June 2008 10:31 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

In the summer of 1981, the historic city of Florence, Italy was rocked by the brutal murder of two lovers in a parked car. Mario Spezi was a newspaperman who caught the case and became the city's foremost expert on what turned out to a serial killer with at least 14—and maybe 16—victims. The murderer, dubbed The Monster by the press, shot and mutilated couples having sex in the Florentine hills (a time-honored custom in a country where late marriage is common, and living together is unthinkable). His signatures were a distinctive notch on the shell casings and the removal of the women's sex organs. Although the case was an Italian obsession for years and inspired Thomas Harris' sequel Hannibal, The Monster remained relatively unknown in America. So when popular author Douglas Preston arrived in Florence to write a novel and contacted Spezi for research purposes, he stumbled onto...

Donna Bowman

1 article from 2008