man they suspected of being the monster. translator: evidently, mr. preston did not do the least bit of fact checking. in 1983 when the two young germans were killed, this person was in prison for another crime unrelated to the monster crimes. if giutarri was so sure that carlo was not the monster, we asked if he would set up a meeting for us and that night at giutarri s office, it happened. after conferring with him for nearly an hour, carlo agreed to speak to us, but not on camera. standing face-to-face, at times uncomfortably close, carlo answered our questions with a smile that barely concealed his contempt. we asked if he was good with a knife. he said no, although he does own a scuba knife. he s a diver. we asked if he was a good shot. he said he had never fired a gun. not even a toy. we asked about his prison record. he said he was sure he had been in prison during one of the monster killings.
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.
yes. sexual organs. all sexual region, yes. had been cut away. cut away, taken away. he took it with him? yes. the medical examiner s report was quite horrific. he said that the mutilation had been performed with three very swift, powerful, and expert cuts with a knife, probably a scuba knife. why a scuba knife? the scuba knife has peculiar ves don t have. the killer had left only one hard piece of evidence. shell casings from a .22 caliber pistol. police quickly tested them and identified the type of gun that fired them as a long-barreled beretta, a common gun in italy, but this particular gun was different. the firing pin of this gun left an unmistakable mark because it had a defect in it that no other gun could leave.
why a scuba knife? the scuba knife has peculiar notches in it which most knives don t have. the killer had left only one hard piece of evidence. shell casings from a .22 caliber pistol. police quickly tested them and identified the type of gun that fired them as a long-barreled beretta, a common gun in italy, but this particular gun was different. the firing pin of this gun left an unmistakable mark because it had a defect in it that no other gun could leave. and so this became a very important clue. the next day s paper carried mario spezi s story on the murder, and another reporter thought it sounded familiar. he remembered a double murder in 1974, seven years earlier. also young lovers on a country road but north of florence, 30 miles away from the recent crime. the young woman had been shot, then stabbed tentatively with just the tip of the knife dozens of times. a vine was inserted in her
giutarri s office, it happened. after conferring with giutarri for nearly an hour carlo agreed to speak to us but not on camera. standing face-to-face, at times uncomfortably close, carlo answered our questions with a smile that barely concealed his contempt. we asked if he was good with a knife. he said no, although he does own a scuba knife. he s a diver. we asked if he was a good shot. he said he had never fired a gun. not even a toy. we asked about his prison record. he said he was sure he had been in prison during one of the monster killings. he just couldn t remember which one. we later checked his record and found that, in fact, carlo had never been in jail during any of the monster killings. he and giuttari were either mistaken or lying about that. but carlo did have a criminal record. the man who had claimed he had never fired even a toy gun had been arrested for illegal possession of firearms.