police arrested a suspect and the killer, almost as if taunting them, killed again. and the police were humiliated and had to release him. the monster struck again eight months later in june of 1982 about ten miles south of florence. a young couple had parked just off a busy road. this time, the young man apparently spotted the killer. he saw the murderer coming? yes, because he tried to start with the car. and the murderer to stop him shoots the boy. the young man managed to back the car across the road, but his rear wheels got stuck in a ditch. the car wouldn t move. the monster shot the two headlights out, and then he fired a shot which struck the boy in the middle of the forehead. and then when he went across the street and got into the car, he shot the boy a second time. and he shot the girl. and he shot the girl when he got in the car. but with the car stuck beside a busy road, the monster apparently didn t feel he had enough time to perform his ritual mutilation
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. iso take you from where you are. to where you need to be. and we re not just talking about points on a map. with a more intuitive delta website and mobile app. and the most wifi equipped planes. we let you be everywhere at once. innovations like these are extending our reach so you can extend yours. and now, even at 30,000 feet you can still touch the ground. i like dat i like dat,
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 homosexual couple by mistake. police hit the sardinian gang again, arresting two more of its members. florentines hoped the terrifying case had finally been solved. but then in july 1984 came the headline everyone dreaded, il mostro e tornato, the monster has returned. the victims were young lovers parked in the country north of florence, both shot to death with that same beretta .22, the woman, just 18, mutilated.
the judge who interrogated doug preston is under investigation for abuse of his office. so is inspector giuttari who told us carlo was in jail when he really wasn t. giutarri is also serving a suspended sentence for making false statements in an unrelated case. and mario spezi, a high court in rome finally cleared him of criminal wrongdoing. he says the book about carlo is the last thing he ll ever write on the monster case. do you believe it? i believe. do you believe he s the one? i can t prove, but i believe. does it even matter anymore? pia was just 18 in 1984 when the monster killed her and her boyfriend. pia s mother told us she stopped wondering who the monster is long ago. knowing won t bring pia back. but doug preston says he has to know. why do people become obsessed? you just think you re so close, i think the next bit of
pacciani had been almost 50. you know, from the theory of the botticelli paintings and the way of the working fbi, i prefer fbi. in 1996, pacciani s conviction was overturned and he was released. but then the monster case, already as intricate as the duomo, got even more complicated. a new witness came forward to say that he was involved in the killings. he said, we were working for somebody else who needed body parts. well, immediately, the question arose, well, what was the purpose of the body parts? and the question was quickly answered, for satanic rituals, for black masses, for offerings to the devil. incredible as it seems, even though the witness admitted he had never met the satanists, even though there were signs he was mentally unstable, police jumped on the new theory that a satanic sect was behind the monster killings. translator: in this story of