A series of horrific unsolved crimes that brought twenty years of terror to Italy. Over two decades, seven helpless couples are stalked by a deranged and perverted killer. Serial Killers: The Monster of Florence
Not only has the couple been brutally executed, the killer has violated the female victim in a sinister and sickening way. ibid.
These murders more than twenty years apart have been committed using the same gun. ibid.
They find a bullet in Pacciani’s garden. ibid.
Is Florence now free of the monster? ibid.
Pacciani successfully appeals his conviction. ibid.
Polizia finds evidence that Pacciani was not acting alone. Two of his friends ... confess to helping Pacciani commit the murders. ibid.
Vanni gets life and Lotti who has cooperated with the police a reduced sentence of twenty-six years. ibid.
Days before Pacciani’s death he is found dead in his home. ibid.
A new suspect – Francesco Calamandrei, a chemist, was accused of being part of a satanic circle that commissioned the monster killings. But Calamandrei was acquitted. ibid.
MONTES, XAVIER ARCE FRANCISCO: ITN News - Real Crime: The Caroline Dickinson Murder TV -
A British schoolgirl has been raped and suffocated on a school holiday to France. ITN News at Ten
On 18th July 1996 a school trip from Cornwall was enjoying a stay in Brittany … among the party was Caroline Dickinson. Real Crime: The Caroline Dickinson Murder, ITV 2007
The man who confessed to the murder was a local vagrant. ibid.
The link between the two attacks had been completely ignored by the original investigation. ibid.
The name of the man being held in Miami and his date of birth – 14th March 1950 – matched those of Francisco Arce Montes, who had disappeared from France some five years earlier and who was the prime suspect for the murder of Caroline Dickinson. ibid.
It took six months for Montes to be extradited from the United States to France, and a further two years for the trial. ibid.
MONTGOMERY, ADAM: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Her five short years on this Earth were marked with abuse from the one person that was supposed to be protecting her. True Crime Recaps: A Horrifying Truth Revealed: What Happened to Harmony Montgomery, Youtube 7.16, 2023
MONTGOMERY, CANDACE LYNN: People Magazine Investigates TV - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
The events of Friday June 13th and the ensuing trial continue to capture public attention. People Magazine Investigates s6e13: Candy & Betty, ID 2022
What he [Lester] finds is an absolute bloodbath … She’s [Betty Gore] dead. ibid.
Who would have attacked a well-loved teacher at home with her baby? ibid.
41 axe marks, 28 times in the head … This is a relationship killing. ibid.
‘I did have an affair … with Candace Montgomery.’ ibid. husband Allan to rozzers
Candy admits to being at the Gore’s house on the morning of Betty’s murder but she insists that when she left, Betty was alive and well. ibid.
She wanted to get rid of Betty so she could have Allan. ibid.
Sleeping with her friend’s husband was supposed to be a harmless fling … How did this loving Christian mom turn into an axe murderer? True Crime Recaps: Candy Montgomery, Youtube 20.07, 2023
Betty lays in this pool of blood in the tight 12x6 utility room … Betty is mutilated beyond recognition. ibid.
Betty was still alive long after Allan left. ibid.
One night after choir practice Candy followed Allan into the parking lot. She got into his car and spilled her guts. She was thinking about him no-stop. ibid.
MONTGOMERY, LISA: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Lisa Montgomery was executed by lethal at the US penitentiary in Indiana. She was the first woman to be executed since Bonnie Brown Heady in 1953. Bonnie kidnapped and murdered a 6-year-old boy in Missouri. Lisa’s crime was just as heinous. True Crime Recaps: Lisa Montgomery, Youtube 8.33, 2021
Lisa overpowered Bobbie Jo who was eight months pregnant at the time. She strangled her with a piece of rope until she passed out. Then she grabbed a knife and started to cut the baby out of Bobby Jo. She came to and fought for her life and for her baby. ibid.
Despite the horrific way she came into the world, today that little girl is a happy, healthy teenager with a new name. ibid.
MOODY, RAYMOND: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
She [Brittanee Drexel] had actually left town for spring break in South Carolina … Three days later she vanished. True Crime Recaps: Teen Disappears During Spring Break! Brittanee Drexel Case, Youtube 5.17, 2022
More than a decade later her body was found in a shallow grave in the woods. ibid.
62-year-old Raymond Moody is a registered sex offender with a history of raping and kidnapping girls in California … In 2022 he allegedly confessed and led police to her body. ibid.
MOODY, SCOTT: Killer Kids TV -
Stacy Moody somehow survived; one of the shots was clean through the neck … This mass murder that is baffling police … Police are now on the hunt for a mysterious grey-haired man. Killer Kids s4e6: Pop & Circumstance & Shell Shocked, LMN 2015
Six people are found dead in two adjacent farmhouses … Scott [Moody] was the shooter … and shot himself twice in the head. ibid.
MOORE, PETER: Evil Up Close TV - David Wilson TV - Killers: Behind the Myth TV - Born to Kill? TV - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV - Peter Moore: 20 Years of Terror TV -
In 2012 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Peter Moore should never be let out of jail: he has caused too much pain. Evil Up Close: Peter Moore
A sadistic killing spree which will see four men murdered in just sixteen weeks. ibid.
At the cinema Peter is putting on live sex shows; increasingly open about his homosexuality ... he turns to sadomasochism. ibid.
Moore has developed a fascination with fascism. ibid.
Moore carries out frenzied attacks: some are reported to the police but many are not. ibid.
Moore was simply out of his mind. Professor David Wilson
A predator stalks his prey along a quiet coast … The crime scene indicates no obvious motive for the murder … The latest in a growing list of fatal stabbings in north Wales. Killers: Behind the Myth s3e5: Peter Moore, 2015
Investigators search Moore’s house: what they find shows him in a completely different light: leather S&M gear, weapons and Nazi memorabilia. ibid.
Moore begins to reveal an astonishing series of crimes. ibid.
For decades north Wales was the hunting ground for a mysterious sadistic attacker. And in the 1990s the man in black graduated to serial killing. Hiding behind a respectable facade, the killer led a sordid double life. But what made this monster: was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s7e1: Peter Moore – The Man in Black, s/a Peter Moore: 20 Years of Terror, Sky Vision 2016
Several men had suffered attacks by a mystery assailant over the preceding years. ibid.
Peter Moore’s secret life of sadism continued. ibid.
Despite his bravado Peter Moore was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to life in prison. ibid.
‘He was attacking his father basically.’ ibid.
September 1995, Anglesey, North West Wales: The man in black was 49-year-old local cinema owner Peter Moore … Moore launched an attack on Henry and stabs him repeatedly. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s4e8: Peter Moore, Pick TV 2020
He was a sexual predator who terrorised men in the north of Wales for nearly two decades, and would go on to claim three more innocent lives in less than three months. ibid.
He would also admit to nearly 50 attacks on men between 1975 and 1995. ibid.
MOORER, SIDNEY & TAMMY: Dateline TV -
Heather Elvis: It was news nationwide when she vanished. Police worked the clues, her car abandoned … anger, betrayal, revenge. Dateline: The Disappearance of Heather Elvis, Sky Crime 2020
Police now had a theory: somehow Heather had become a problem for Sidney, so he lured Heather to the landing and killed her … [and] someone else was at the landing. ibid.