On August 21st, 1968, Antonio Lo Bianco and Barbara Locci were found shot to death on a rural lovers lane outside of Florence, Italy. This gruesome crime would prove to be the first in a series of eight double murders targeting couples canoodling in their cars throughout the Tuscan countryside. Eventually called the Monster of Florence, this mysterious killer attacked during the new moon and was known to perform post-mortem mutilations on his female victims.  Though many suspects would be identified and even convicted of these grisly murders, they were routinely exonerated by additional crimes. Nearly four decades later, this seventeen-year reign of terror remains unsolved, the Monster of Florence never conclusively revealed.

In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction podcast, Jenn walks Joe through this series of brutal crimes and the bizarre investigation that followed. From the Sardian Trials to the Zodiac Killer, this story takes several twists and turns through wild theories that persist to this day.

And if you want even more Murder Made Fiction, be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where Jenn and Joe have ~100 hours of content including full primers on this disturbing story and episode by episode coverage of the Netflix mini-series The Monster of Florence and Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family.