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  1. 21 August 1968 – 8 September 1985. Country. Italy. The Monster of Florence ( Italian: Il Mostro di Firenze) is the name commonly used by the Italian media for a non-definitively identified serial killer active within the Metropolitan City of Florence between 1968 and 1985. The Monster murdered 16 victims, usually young couples secluded in ...

  2. Il Mostro di Firenze. Monster of Florence, Italian serial killer or killers who murdered at least 16 people in the hills outside Florence between 1968 and 1985. The case inspired Thomas Harris’s novel Hannibal (1999). In 1968 a man and a woman were murdered in a parked car near Florence by a mysterious killer whom the Italian media later ...

  3. Mar 30, 2022 · The “Monster of Florence” began killing on Aug. 21, 1968, when he gunned down 29-year-old Antonio Lo Bianco and his 32-year-old sister-in-law, Barbara Locci, with a .22 handgun in the town of Signa. They were murdered in their car as Locci’s six-year-old daughter was sleeping in the back seat, according to The Atlantic.

  4. 978-0-446-58119-6. The Monster of Florence: A True Story is a 2008 true crime book by American thriller writer Douglas Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi. It relates to a series of murders that occurred between 1968 and 1985 and involved couples who were killed while having sex in their cars in deserted lanes around the city of Florence ...

  5. The Monster of Florence, is the literal translation of the ‘ Mostro di Firenze ’, the name given to the person responsible for the death of at least 14 people near Florence between 1974 and 1985. The case is considered one of criminology's most baffling mysteries with an investigation spanning over 40 years.

  6. The Monster of Florence: Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen. With Antonio Banderas. A reconstruction of eight double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around Florence, Italy.

  7. Dec 30, 2023 · Since the prosecution needed time to find information linking Salvatore to the Monster of Florence’s crimes, the judge arrested Salvatore for Barbarina’s murder. However, the trial was a disaster.