Pino Rinaldi brings the Monster of Florence to Cagliari. Tomorrow at the Doglio Theater (7 p.m.), the Roman journalist, a longtime face of "Chi l'ha visto?" and currently host of "Ignoto X" on La7, will be the featured speaker at the closing event of the three-day Primavera Noir festival.
At the meeting, Rinaldi will also discuss his latest book, "The Monster of Florence. The Hidden Truth," which, compared to his previous book, "The Monster is Free (If He's Not Dead)," also co-written with Nunziato Torrisi, commander of the Carabinieri Operations Unit in Florence at the time of the events, "has five additional chapters that recount the most serious investigation ever conducted into the monster," he explains. The event, presented by the Forma e Poesia nel Jazz cooperative in collaboration with the Teatro Doglio, focuses on one of the most enigmatic and disturbing cases in Italian crime history.
A leading figure in national investigative journalism, Rinaldi, born in 1961, will guide the audience into the intricacies of the Monster of Florence case, a series of eight double homicides, mostly involving young couples secluded in cars in remote locations, committed between 1968 and 1985 in the countryside surrounding the Tuscan capital. Stefano Mele and the brothers Francesco and Salvatore Vinci were initially accused of these crimes, the famous "Sardinian lead" now back in the news with new and more recent investigations.
A mystery that continues to puzzle investigators and the public, one Rinaldi knows intimately, having tackled in 2021 with a documentary for which he wrote the story and screenplay, and subsequently with two books co-authored with Torrisi. But the Teatro Doglio will also discuss other crime cases, ranging from established truths to unsolved mysteries, in an evening that promises narrative tension and a critical perspective.
