Between 1968 and 1985, a series of brutal murders in Italy transformed the area around Florence into a landscape of fear. The killer targeted and gunned down couples parked in secluded spots on the city’s outskirts, and in several cases, the bodies of female victims were discovered to be mutilated. Nicknamed the "Monster of Florence" (Il Mostro di Firenze), the identity of the killer remains one of Italy’s most haunting mysteries.

Netflix’s new four-part limited series , The Monster of Florence , created by Leonardo Fasoli and Stefano Sollima, opens in 1982, when a young couple is found murdered in their car. The police reopen an earlier case from 1968 with striking similarities—the first killing linked to the same .22 caliber Beretta. From there, investigators, journalists, and sus

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