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The Monster of Florence, or Il Mostro di Firenze (real identity unknown), was a notorious Italian serial killer.

Case History
The first known victims of the Monster of Florence were Antonio Lo Bianco and Barbara Locci. They were killed on the night of August 21, 1968 in Signa, a small town near Florence. Locci's husband, Stefano Mele, was arested an found guilty

Physical Description

 * The killer is believed to have known his way around a handgun. The suspected murder weapon is designed to hold nine rounds in its magazine, but can be made to hold a tenth and an eleventh can be stored in the chamber.
 * The killer is believed to have known his way around a handgun. The suspected murder weapon is designed to hold nine rounds in its magazine, but can be made to hold a tenth and an eleventh can be stored in the chamber.

Suspects

 * Stefano Mele
 * Husband of first female victim, Barbara Locci
 * Pietro Pacciani (1927-1998)
 * Farmer
 * Went to prison shortly after the first Monster murder for raping his daughters
 * In 1951, he attacked his 16-year-old girlfriend and her lover while they were having a romantic encounter in the woods in Vicchio. He first pulled the lover out of the car they were inside, bashed him on the head with a rock and stabbed him to death. He then raped his girlfriend next to his dead body, carried the corpse to a nearby lake and engaged in necrophilia with it.
 * Pietro Pacciani (1927-1998)
 * Farmer
 * Went to prison shortly after the first Monster murder for raping his daughters
 * In 1951, he attacked his 16-year-old girlfriend and her lover while they were having a romantic encounter in the woods in Vicchio. He first pulled the lover out of the car they were inside, bashed him on the head with a rock and stabbed him to death. He then raped his girlfriend next to his dead body, carried the corpse to a nearby lake and engaged in necrophilia with it.

Modus Operandi
The Monster targeted couples while they were having sex in cars in some secluded area. He would walk up to the cars and fire at the victims through the windows or sometimes through the car walls with a .22 Beretta. When both victims were dead, he would drag the women a few feet away from the car and mutilate and stab them post-mortem, in particular around the sexual organs, which were sometimes removed and taken by the killer. The type of knife was not positively identified, but may have been a scuba knife.

Known Victims

 * August 21, 1968:
 * Antonio Lo Bianco, 29
 * Barbara Locci, 32
 * September 15,1974:
 * Pasquale Gentilcore, 19
 * Stefania Pettini, 18
 * June 6, 1981:
 * Giovanni Foggi, 30
 * Carmela Di Nuccio, 21
 * October 3, 1981:
 * Stefano Baldi, 26
 * Susanna Cambi, 24
 * June 19, 1982:
 * Paola Mainardi, 22
 * Antonella Migliorini, 20
 * September 9, 1983:
 * Horst William Meyer, 24
 * Jens Uwe Rüsch, 24
 * July 29, 1984:
 * Claudio Stefanicci, 21
 * Pia Gilda Rontini, 18
 * September 7-8, 1985:
 * Jean Michel Kraveichvili, 25
 * Nadine Mauriot, 36

On Criminal Minds
Though the Monster of Florence has never been mentioned on Criminal Minds, his M.O. is similar to that of George Foyet, aka the Boston Reaper; both would attack couples in or near cars in unpopulated areas and both tended to do overkill with their younger female victims.