Last year, Deadline reported that Antonio Banderas had been cast to play Italian crime reporter Mario Spezi in a series called "The Monster of Florence," based on the book by Spezi and American novelist Douglas Preston. They also want male DNA found on anonymous letters sent to prosecutors in 1985 - which did not match Pacciani's - to be compared against the suspect they say police were too quick to overlook. A police search of his house in the 1980s found newspaper cuttings on the killings and bullets of the same make used in the murders.īiscotti said he and the other lawyers want the probe into Vigilanti, now 90, to be reopened. Other suspects included another friend of Pacciani's, Giampiero Vigilanti. There were "inconsistencies" in Lotti's confession, however, and some of the murders remain unclaimed, suggesting "none of the trials so far have got to the whole truth," Biscotti said.
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Mario Vanni in an undated file photo taken during the trial for the murder, between 19, of seven couples in the outskirts of Florence, Italy's worst killing spree. Both were jailed and both have since died. Two of those friends - Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti - were found guilty of four of the eight double murders after Lotti confessed. Prosecutors had portrayed Pacciani as a violent and sex-obsessed man who committed the murders with several friends with whom he used to frequent brothels. Mauriot, murdered in her tent, was one of four women whose breasts or pubic areas were mutilated. Most were attacked in cars, during or just after having sex. The victims were all couples, killed with the same Beretta pistol. Stock pictures of Jean Michel Kravcichili and Nadine Mauriot, two french tourists found murdered in 1985 in San Casciano Val di Pesa, near Florence.
"We are looking for the truth, with a new investigation, and we're convinced that there are elements in the old case files that were wrongly overlooked," lawyer Valter Biscotti told AFP.īiscotti represents Estelle Lanciotti, the eldest daughter of French victim Nadine Mauriot, who was shot dead in 1985 with Jean Michel Kraveichvili during a camping holiday in Italy. Relatives of three victims have formally asked prosecutors in the Tuscan city to look afresh at potential leads into the so-called "Monster of Florence," believed to have murdered 16 people. Families of victims of a serial killer who terrorized Florence in the 1970s and 80s are demanding a new probe into one of Italy's darkest unsolved mysteries, a lawyer said on Friday.
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