they asked the fbi s behavioral science unit to formulate a psychological profile of the monster. the fbi report described a lone killer, sexually impotent, acting out a ritualized anger toward women. someone who felt he could only possess a woman by murdering her and mutilating her body. italian investigators questioned hundreds of men but made no progress. until they received an anonymous letter about a farmer who lived just outside florence. pietro pacciani was known to be very violent. he beat his children, he beat his wife. people were frightened of him. he was certainly a monster, but was he the monster? police arrest a man they suspect of being a serial killer who has murdered 14 young lovers. will the killings stop? when murder on lovers lane continues.
he was a drunken peasant who as a young man in 1951 had caught his fiancee being seduced by a traveling salesman. he had killed the traveling salesman, stomped his head in, and them raped his fiancee next to his body. and prosecutors claimed, the the murderous pacciani had said something that seemed to link him to the monster killings decades later. when he saw his fiancee uncover her left breast, that s when he had gone crazy. the left breast? very important clue. important because in his last two killings, the monster had cut off the left breast of his female victims. and why did the monster killings suddenly stop in the mid-1980s? pacciani s history offered a sordid explanation for that too. he had been in prison for raping his daughters. police found another set of clues when they searched pacciani s house. first, an erotic print of a woman, her breast exposed with what looks like a flower between her lips. second, a fine art print.
and appealing. pacciani s trial, attended by families of the monster s young victims, was a media sensation. they had pacciani s daughters testifying about how he had raped them. testimony from the murder that he committed in 1951 was horrifying. all this was just just made pacciani look like a monster. and when it was over? he was convicted. as you might expect. but italian journalist mario spezi never believed that pacciani was the monster. for one thing, the gun and the knife that connected all the murders had never been found, and never linked to pacciani. what s more, spezi had been to every crime scene, and he knew the killer had to be smart, fast, skillful, nothing like the dim, drunk, overweight pacciani. spezi also saw a glaring contradiction. pacciani was a sex criminal, a convicted rapist. for the monster, mutilation seemed to take the place of sex. was there any evidence that the killer had sexually assaulted
uncover her left breast, that s when he had gone crazy. the left breast? very important clue. important because in his last two killings, the monster had cut off the left breast of his female victims. and why did the monster killings suddenly stop in the mid-1980s? pacciani s history offered a sordid explanation for that too. he had been in prison for raping his daughters. police found another set of clues when they searched pacciani s house. first, an erotic print of a woman, her breast exposed with what looks like a flower between her lips. second, a fine art print. they found a reproduction of that famous painting by botticelli, the primavera. the original hangs in florence s uffizi gallery. on the right, you ll see a nymph being stalked by hermes. the greek god who escorts the dead to the underworld. look closer. flowers and vines are sort of spilling out of her mouth, kind of vomiting flowers and vines. remember the 1981 murder where the mutilated young woman was
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