Satanism | Ritual Murder | Italy | The Florence Case

Officially, the Pacciani case. The same old broken record of a loner arrested, here in 1993, to cover up the broader network of perpetrators.
In April 2001, the UK’s The Times reported that police in Florence had reopened the case in the light of new evidence which suggested that while Pacciani may indeed have carried out some of the murders, the real masterminds behind the gruesome killings were a group of ‘high society satanists’ who carried out and possibly still carry out 'weird rituals that beggar belief', while hiding behind the facades of their wealthy Tuscan villas. The group's leader described as a ‘distinguished doctor’ with a ‘sick and twisted mind'.
In August, the Guardian added: “Police now believe that a group of between 10 and 12 wealthy Italians orchestrated ritualised murders over the course of three decades hiding behind careers and reputations', the perpetrators described as an “occult group which directed the murders.”
The Times article noted that Pacciani’s “conviction was overturned on appeal, but about to be retried, a possibility under Italian law, when he suddenly died of a heart attack.”
However, according to the investigating magistrate on the case, Paolo Canessa, Pacciani’s death was definitely not due to natural causes: “Someone was prescribing medicine that killed rather than cured Pacciani.” And Pacciani’s defense attorney, Carmelo Lavorino, stated that evidence at the scene suggested that Pacciani had been dragged by his feet after his death.
The most likely explanation is obviously that Pacciani was eliminated to be silenced.
According to the Times, a number of other suspicious deaths have surrounded the case:
“Renato Malatesta, Pacciani’s close friend, was found hanging in a stable with his feet still resting firmly on the ground. Malatesta’s daughter Milva was found dead with her three-year-old son in a burnt-out Fiat Panda. Another burnt-out car was found containing the body of Milva Malatesta’s lover, Francesco Vinci, another Pacciani acquaintance. A year later came the murder of Anna Milva Mettei, a local prostitute who had had an affair with Vinci’s son, whose body was also burnt.”
Investigators have therefore come to the belated realization that a large network of people were involved in the killings, some “studying the most likely spots in which to strike, while others served as lookouts. All took orders from one person who took part in the actual killings and mutilations.”
Investigators also stated they believed “the female body parts [the left breasts and the genitals] were used in black masses at night in remote Tuscan farmhouses.”
Among those consequently being sought by authorities is a “‘mystery woman,’ perhaps a member of the doctor’s circle, who beat up Pacciani’s elderly wife in January 1996, knocked her out with sleeping pills and searched the house.