More than thirty-nine years after the last double murder attributed to him, the case of the monster of Florence continues to hold new investigative developments. Yesterday in the cemetery of Montelupo Fiorentino the remains of Francesco Vinci were exhumed, accused in 1982 of being the maniac of couples (acquitted the following year while in prison), who died on 7 August 1993. His body, together with that of the shepherd Angelo Vargiu, was found hogtied and charred in the trunk of a Volvo 240 in the countryside of Chianni (Pisa). The exhumation of the body and the subsequent DNA test were ordered by magistrates Ornella Galeotti and Beatrice Giunti, in charge of the latest investigation into the serial killer who struck on the hills of the Tuscan capital from 1968 to 1985. The request was presented by the widow of Vinci, Vitalia Melis: the latter and her children believe that the family member may still be alive. It should not be forgotten that at the time of the identification of the body, due to the conditions in which the corpse was found, Vinci’s recognition was carried out with a ring and a watch. Only in the next few days will the doubts of the family and the Florentine prosecutor’s office be definitively dispelled, when magistrates and relatives will be informed about the tests carried out at the forensic medicine institute. Exams in which Dr. Martina Focardi and the gentist Ugo Ricci will participate, both appointed by the Tuscan robes, who will first extrapolate Vinci’s DNA and then compare it with that of his family members. The forensic geneticist Eugenio D’Orio and the medical examiner Aldo Allegrini (appointed by Vinci’s family) will also assist the exams.
«Vitalia Melis has a strong suspicion that her husband is still alive. She says – declared the criminologist Davide Canella who initiated the bureaucratic procedures for the exhumation – that she saw Francesco waving at her from a car. This happened a few days after the discovery of her husband’s death. He went to the police, but there was no follow-up.” Hypothesis that can only be denied or confirmed with DNA testing. What certainly remains, however, is the involvement of Francesco Vinci and his brother Salvatore in the so-called “Sardinian trail” which in 1982 seemed one step away from the turning point in the case of the monster of Florence (for which snack companions Mario Vanni were definitively convicted and Giancarlo Lotti, identified as the material perpetrators of four double murders). Investigative lead that was inspired by the murder of the two lovers Barbara Locci and Antonio Lo Bianco killed in Lastra a Signa in 1968.
The woman’s husband, Stefano Mele, brought into play the Vinci brothers, his wife’s lovers, but at the end of the proceedings he was the one to be convicted of slander against the two Vincis. The weapon of that crime, a 22 caliber Beretta, was never found and would appear again at the crime scene in 1974, when the second couple in the series, Pasquale Gentilcore and Stefania Pettini, were killed. Which are also linked to Vinci due to the aspect of the genetic material: in fact the lawyer Vieri Adriani, who also represents the family members of the French couple killed in Scopeti in 1985, has asked for the exhumation of these four bodies because he believes he has identified a Unknown DNA, isolated from an ogive extracted from the cushion of the tent in which Jean-Michel Kraveichvili and Nadine Mauriot were killed.
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2024-10-02 10:12:30
