"Some criminal cases are so vast that even the number of victims is uncertain: in the case of the unsolved Monster of Florence crimes that have gripped Italy for half a century, it is known that seven couples were murdered. But some say it's eight, and at least another 16 murders have been connected to the case. The number of suspects almost matches that of the victims."
"First there was the pista sarda, the Sardinian line of enquiry into the swinging, pimping Vinci brothers who probably had a hand in the first murder in 1968. In the 1990s, a rapist, Pietro Pacciani, was convicted and then cleared. In 2000, Pacciani's co-accused, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti, were sentenced to life and 28 years respectively for the murders committed between 1981 and 1985."
"Gianluca Monastra, author of Il Mostro di Firenze, writes that it's a case in which there's a seductive and ever more abstract ballet of hypotheses it's a story in which everything can seem true, as can its contrary. Filled with intrigue and sex (most of the victims were young couples making out in the countryside), it has spawned its fair share of obsessives, who have come to be known as monsterologists."
Seven couples were murdered in the Monster of Florence killings, though some accounts claim eight couples and link at least 16 additional murders. The investigations produced nearly as many suspects as victims, including the swinging Vinci brothers under the pista sarda inquiry and later figures such as Pietro Pacciani, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti. Convictions and reversals marked the legal saga, with Pacciani convicted then cleared and Vanni and Lotti later sentenced for 1981–85 murders. The case spawned obsessive researchers known as monsterologists and generated suspicions of evidence manipulation and possible law-enforcement involvement. A Netflix drama focuses on the early pista sarda episodes.
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