New twist in the case of the Monster of Florence.
The wife and children of Francesco Vinci , originally from Villacidro and imprisoned in 1982 as a suspect in the crimes of the "couple killer", only to be later exonerated and released, have asked for and obtained authorization to proceed with the exhumation of the body in order to carry out a DNA comparison.
This was announced by criminologist and private investigator Davide Cannella , who was appointed by Vinci's wife, Vitalia, to follow the process: «We have received the green light for the exhumation and we will take the tissues to compare them with the DNA of the family members . If confirmed - continues Cannella - the suspicion that it is not Francesco Vinci will fall, otherwise we will have the body of an unknown person and we will have to know if Francesco Vinci, who was born in 1943, is still alive and where he is» .
Vinci, at the time of the investigation into the Monster, was at the center of the so-called "Sardinian lead" . He had in fact been the lover of Barbara Locci , killed with the Sicilian Antonio Lo Bianco in 1968 in Castelletti di Signa, in what has been hypothesized could be the first crime attributed to the Monster series because of the same gun (a 22 caliber Beretta). Vinci was accused by Locci's husband, Stefano Mele , who had also already been convicted, as the perpetrator of the double homicide in 1968. He would have acted out of jealousy towards Locci, but the manner and the fact that he could possess a gun of that type fueled investigative suspicions about him also for four other subsequent murders of couples.
After his arrest, as mentioned, he was however exonerated and released from prison, following the murder – also attributed in this case to the Monster – of two German boys, which occurred in Giogioli in 1983, while Vinci was in prison.
Ten years later, in 1993, a new mystery: Vinci was killed and his body found charred in a car in the Pisan countryside, together with that of his friend and servant shepherd Angelo Vargiu.
However, the relatives hypothesize that the body, buried in a cemetery near Florence, is not his and therefore want to clarify the issue once and for all with DNA testing. Cannella, moreover, does not exclude that the new analyses on Vinci's remains - if Vinci it is - can be evaluated for other comparisons in the context of the investigations on the Monster.
The circumstances surrounding the killing of Vinci and Vargiu have in fact never been fully clarified and in the reconstructions they have often been included in the category of "collateral violent deaths" which have involved people linked in various ways to those investigated for the crimes of the couple killer .
(Online Union)
