The Monster of Florence: The Murders That Shocked The Italian Countryside
What We Know About One of Italy’s Most Prolific Serial Killers
He prowled the Florence countryside and targeted lovers having sex in their cars. Despite a massive police response and countless suspects, the case of the Monster of Florence is shrouded in mystery.
A String of Grizzly Murders
On September 15th, 1974, Pasquale Gentilcore (19) and Stefania Pettini (18) were shot and stabbed in Gentilcore’s Fiat 127, which they parked in a country lane where they were being intimate.
The couple planned to meet with friends at a nearby nightclub but never showed up. Hours before the murder, Pettini told a friend that a weird man was following her.
The stranger followed the couple during a driving lesson a few days before they died and made them both extremely uncomfortable.
Almost five years later, on June 6th, 1981, Giovanni Foggi (30) and Carmela De Nuccio (21) were shot and stabbed in a vehicle near their home.
