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.
special type of sardinian liquor. he was a very intelligent man, and he joked with us. and we proceeded to ask him questions, very gently at first. questions about the case, you know, general questions. and, finally, the questions got more and more pointed until it was obvious to him and to us that we were accusing him of being the monster of florence. he never lost his smile. he never lost his charm. he never said wait a minute, what are you accusing me of? how dare you? no, he was so charming, so nice. he denied ever having a monster s gun, but he did say he owned a knife. the scuba knife, that that was his knife of choice. now, the medical examiner s report said that the mutilations had been performed probably with a scuba knife, which is a very particular kind of knife with a notch in it and serrations. the same kind of knife that the notch had been used in the killings? in the killings. then spezi asked the biggest question of all.
investigators came to believe that salvatore vinci ordered his group to murder the queen bee and her lover. so the police formulated a theory that the monster of florence was one of these people who had got such a sick pleasure out of it, he just had to do it again and again and again. so the hunt for the monster focused on that circle of sardinians with access to the gun. the new strategy even had a name. the sardinian connection or in italian they called it the la piste sarde, the sardinian track. in 1982 police arrested one of the sardinians that they believed either was the monster or knew who was. and in september of 1983, while he was in custody the monster struck again. a young german couple was making love in the back of a vw bus. the monster shot through the window, killing both. murders nine and ten. and then he entered the vw bus, and that s when he discovered he had killed a
monster committed a crime that hannibal lecter would find hard to top. the young lovers this time were tourists from france, camping in the hills south of florence. as they made love in their tent, the monster shot the woman in the face, killing her instantly. the man was shot several times, but somehow managed to burst from the tent. here s someone who s running for his life, and yet the killer was actually able to catch him, reach up behind him, cut his throat. the killer then returned to the tent and mutilated the dead woman in his new, more terrible way. but he still wasn t done. one of the prosecutors in the case, a woman named silvia della monica, received in the mail a letter addressed like a ransom note, you know, letters cut out of a newspaper. and inside was one item, it was the nipple from the victim. the monster s grisly taunt was the exclamation point on a string of murders that had spanned 11 years and taken 14
looking closer and closer at the carabinieri suspect. by the time he met preston in 2000, he had a convincing case. the more we looked at it, the more we eliminated other possible suspects, the more it seemed likely that he was the person, that he was the monster of florence. they began to refer to him by a pseudonym, carlo, and agreed he would be the focus of their book. they decided they had to talk to him. we went to his house at 9:30 at night, rang his doorbell. got buzzed up, no problem. after two decades on the trail, was spezi along with preston, about to confront the monster of florence? on my phone, i got internet! hotspot five dollars. hey, hey, hey, hey. i can see who s on my network people! lance? lance? yes, yes you are next. all right. dave, i m in. katie!