Les Jones

True Crime > The Monster of Florence

There's a new development in the case of the The Monster of Florence

The men are accused of belonging to a satanist coven that masterminded Italy's most notorious serial killings - 16 murders carried out between 1968 and 1985, and blamed on a "Monster of Florence".

Four people have been cautioned as suspects and, on Monday, the home of one of those formally placed under investigation was raided by police at dawn.

Extracts from the search warrant issued were published yesterday by the newspaper Corriere della Sera. In it, the prosecutors state that the Monster of Florence murders were the work of a "split-level" conspiracy. The killing was done by an semi-literate farmer, Pietro Pacciani, and two other men who were convicted and sentenced in the late 1990s. "But a group of people who celebrated black masses and magical rites put the weapons into their hands", the warrant added.

Via Siflay Hraka.