January 22, 2004
Murders still bedevil Chianti's rolling hills
Full story: Guardian Unlimited
The suspects are outwardly respectable professionals. A lawyer, a retired village chemist, a former university medical professor specialising in dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases. The setting is the rolling hills of Chianti. And their alleged crime is one that could lie at the heart of one of Umberto Eco's esoteric thrillers.Posted by stupefied
The men are accused of belonging to a satanist coven that masterminded Italy's most notorious serial killings - 16 murders carried out between 1968 and 1985, and blamed on a "Monster of Florence". Four people have been cautioned as suspects and, on Monday, the home of one of those formally placed under investigation was raided by police at dawn.
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