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
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 lives. it had transfixed and terrorized a nation. investigators tried one last time to crack the sardinian clan they arrested its leader, salvatore vinci, whom they had long suspected but didn t have the evidence to convict him. much to everyone s chagrin and outrage, he was acquitted. just too much time had passed. i mean witnesses were vague. they couldn t remember. the hard evidence was gone.
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
he said ah spezi, i forgot something. i never joke. and i never kid around. what did you take that to mean? well, it was a threat. in italian it s even more of a threat than it is in english. as you left his home after speaking to him, what did you think? well, me and doug, we were silent. we entered our car, and then almost at the same time, we say, it s him. if it was him, if carlo was the monster, it was a stunning moment. and it would make a great ending to their book on the monster case. but another author was also at work on that other theory of the crimes. translator: i believe i have done my duty, seriously and for many years. i wanted to make the recent developments official in my book. so that this story is not forgotten. florence police inspector michele giuttari was writing his own book, and who could blame him? books on the monster case are big sellers in italy.
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? for murder. and just when you think this case couldn t get any stranger, another twist. an ex-con came to spezi and in return for a few euros gave him a white-hot tip. the source claimed that carlo had taken him to one of his hideaways on the grounds of this centuries-old villa, and what he had seen inside might crack the monster case once and for all. he told me that he saw in his