you can find them in antique stores all over tuscany. the foundation of the satanic cult theory was a doorstop. spezi soon published his findings in the newspaper. and he ridiculed giuttari. ridiculed him. it was a classic spat between two writers, except that one of the writers was also a cop. the police arrived at spezi s apartment 6:00 in the morning, turned the place upside down. then behind spezi s door, they found the doorstop. later in the report they made they said that now they had evidence that connected spezi directly to the scene of one of the crimes and to the satanic sect. it seemed incredible, but it was no joke. here s a guy who knows everything. he s followed the case obsessively. and he had the hexagonal stone. and he had the hexagonal stone. mario spezi, reporter, now a suspect. so you were under investigation yes. for murder?
what do you think of this theory? it s completely crazy. it s completely crazy. spezi developed his own very different theory based on something he says he was told by a high-ranking member of the carabinieri, the italian federal police. they tell me to a journalist who is writing about the monster, they told this new story very interesting. the carabinieri had withdrawn from the case years before, reportedly outraged at the way it was being managed by local investigators. but obsession is obsession. they continued a secret investigation into the sardinian connection to see if they could figure out who the monster of florence was. the unofficial investigation had led to a suspect. he was the son of one of the sardinians involved in the 68 murder. so he could have gotten hold of the gun. the key to the whole mystery. this is the real, real problem of the case of the monster of florence. who has the gun and how they
the victim? never, never. he never had sexual activity. activity with the victims, never. spezi had also seen that fbi profile of the monster and thought it just didn t match pacciani at all. the profile said the killer was probably sexually dysfunctional. pacciani was not. probably lived alone or with an older relative. pacciani had a wife and children. and was probably in his 20s at the time of the first murder. 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.
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
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